"Basnet," which occurs in stanza 10, is not a very common word in ballads.

It is used in _The Lay_, Canto I., stanza 25, and in _Marmion_, Canto VI, st.

21.] [Footnote 70: _Lockhart_, Vol.

I, p.

221.] [Footnote 71: _Memoir of William Taylor_, Vol.