The tane is shipped at the pier of Leith,

The tother at the Queen's Ferrie;

And she's gotten a father to her bairn,

The wanton laird of young Logie.

[A]

Redding kain—Comb for the hair.

NOTE ON THE LAIRD O' LOGIE.

Carmichael's the keeper o' the key.—P. 344. v. 2.

Sir John Carmichael of Carmichael, the hero of the ballad, called the Raid of the Reidswair, was appointed captain of the king's guard in 1588, and usually had the keeping of state criminals of rank.