"There was a ship at morning prime The Scottish shore forsook, And southward with a favouring gab Her rapid course she took: Her mast St. Andrew's banner bears, And heaven be now her speed! For with her goes the bravest knight That Scotland hath in need." BALLADS AND LAYS. By the fragment of a log-book, which was found among the MSS. just referred to, we are informed that on Beltane day, in the year of Grace 1488, two Scottish ships of war, the _Yellow Frigate_ and the _Queen Margaret_, were lying becalmed off the mouth of the Tay, about seven miles from the Gaa Sands, and three from the Inchcape Rock, the large bell of which was heard at times, as its sonorous notes floated over the still …
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