Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

DUKE OF PERTH'S THREE
DAUGHTERS.
Another version of this ballad, differing con-
siderably from the present, has been published,
under the singular title of Babylon, or the Bon-
nie Banks of Fordie, in the " Minstrelsy, An-
cient and Modern;" where it is given as be-
ing popular in the Southern parishes of Perth-
shire. The present copy is from Mearns-shire,
although it would seem to have acquired c a
local habitation and a name,' in the former
county. It appears to relate to the family of
Drummond of Perth; and though the title of
4 Duke of Perth/ was unknown prior to the
Revolution, the assumption of it here does not
lessen the antiquity of the ballad, as it is a well
known custom among the vulgar, from whom