P. 39. Miscellanea Curiosa, MS., vol. vi, Abbotsford Library, #A.# 3,
has for its last piece “The Burning of the Tower of Frendraught, an
Historical Ballad,” in forty-eight stanzas. It begins:
O passd ye by the Bog of Gicht?
Heard ye the cry of grief and care?
Or in the bowers of Rothymay
Saw ye the lady tear her hair?
“A Satyre against Frendraught, in which ware burned the Vicount of
Melgum, Laird of Rothiemay, and sundrie other gentlemen, in anno 1630,”
218 lines, MS. in a seventeenth-century hand, is No 1 in a volume with
the title Scottish Tracts, Abbotsford Library, B. 7. Mr. Macmath
suggests that this may be the “flyte” which Sharpe and Sir W. Scott
thought of printing.