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Wardlaw (ELIZABETH LADY a Scotch poet)

ELIZABETH, LADY, a Scotch poet; born in 1677; of Massachusetts was appointed Secre- tary of War in 1921. WARDLAW, ELIZABETH, LADY, a She married in 1696 Sir Henry was first firrane.

Wardlaw, of Pitreavie, also near Dun- Scotch poet; born in 1677; the second "Hardyknute, a Fragment," published in 1719 as a genuine antique, and, expanded from 216 to 336 lines, had been two or three times reprinted, when Percy in the second edition of his "Reliques" revealed the secret of its authorship. To Lady Wardlaw also Dr. Robert Chambers in 1859 ascribed "Sir Patrick Spens," "The Douglas Tragedy," and of the finest traditional many more Scotch ballads. Indorsed though it be by Professor Masson in his "Edinburgh Sketches" (1892), the theory is untenthe last I shall ever forget." She died a heavy one, for "Hardyknute," says able; still our debt to Lady Wardlaw is in 1727.

Scott, was "the first poem I ever learnt, the last I shall ever forget." She died