From Pinkerton’s Scottish Ballads. The event narrated is a legend of the
house of Cassilis (Kennedy), but is wholly unhistorical. “Sir John Faa,”
in the fable, is aided by Gypsies, but, apparently, is not one of the
Earls of Egypt, on whom Mr. Crockett’s novel, _The Raiders_, may be
consulted. The ballad was first printed, as far as is known, in Ramsay’s
_Tea Table Miscellany_.