Lock the Door, Lariston is a border ballad by the Scottish poet James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd", first published in 1811.
The ballad begins with a call to "Lariston, Lion of Liddisdale" to respond to a heavily armed English raid.
The third presents Elliot's response, a heroic greeting to his opponents as "brave foemen / ... no men / more gallant to meet in the foray or chase", followed by a listing of Scots names, continued in the fourth verse ("Mangerton, Gornberry, Raeburn, and Netherby...") and a challenge to fight "at the Breaken Tower" in Liddesdale.
Early reprints of it in the London papers and elsewhere attributed it to his friend (and later brother-in-law) James Gray, but Hogg firmly claimed his authorship in the introduction he wrote to it in Songs, by the Ettrick shepherd (1831).
[5] "Old Sim of Whitram" has the same name as a prominent Liddesdale leader recorded by Robert Carey in 1598, though this was a generation later than Jock Elliot.