s Lynn, in
Norfolk, where pilgrims of the fourteenth century visited the Rood
Chapel of Our Lady of Lynn, on their way to Walsingham; with equal
probability it is not to be identified at all with any known town.

'shot-window,' _Gay Goshawk_, 8.3; _Brown Robin_, 3.3; _Lamkin_, 7.3;
etc.

This commonplace phrase seems to vary in meaning. It may be 'a
shutter of timber with a few inches of glass above it' (Wodrow's
_History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland_, Edinburgh,
1721-2, 2 vols., in vol. ii. p. 286); it may be simply 'a window to
open and shut,' as Ritson explains it; or again, as is implied in
Jamieson's _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, an
out-shot window, or bow-window. The last certainly seems to be
intended in certain instances.

'thought lang' _Young Bekie_, 16.4; _Brown Adam_, 5.2; _Johney Scot_,
6.2; _Fause Footrage_, 25.2; etc.

This simply means 'thought it long,' or 'thought it slow,' as we
should say in modern slang; in short, 'was bored,' or 'weary.'

'wild-wood swine,' a simile for drunkenness, _Brown Robin_, 7.4; _Fause
Footrage_, 16.4.

_Cp._ Shakespeare, _All's Well that Ends Well_, Act IV. 3, 286:
'Drunkenness is his best virtue; for he will be swine-drunk.' It
seems to be nothing more than a popular comparison.

LIST OF BOOKS FOR BALLAD STUDY FOR ENGLISH READERS

A.--The Literary History of Ballads

The Introductions, etc., to the Collections of Ballads in List B.

1861. _David Irving._ History of Scottish Poetry.

1871. _Thomas Warton._ History of English Poetry, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt.
4 vols.

1875. _Andrew Lang._ Article in Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th edition),
vol. iii.

1876. _Stopford Brooke._ English Literature. New edition, enlarged,
1897.

1883. _W. W. Newell._ Games and Songs of American Children. New York.

1887. _Andrew Lang._ Myth, Ritual, and Religion. 2 vols.

1893. _John Veitch._ History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. 2 vols.

1893. _F. J. Child._ Article 'Ballads' in Johnson's Cyclopaedia, vol. i.
pp. 464-6.

1895-97. _W. J. Courthope._ A History of English Poetry. Vols. i.
and ii.

1897. _G. Gregory Smith._ The Transition Period: being vol. iv. of
Periods of English Literature, ed. G. Saintsbury.

1898. _Andrew Lang_ in _Quarterly Review_ for July.

1901. _F. B. Gummere._ The Beginnings of Poetry.

1903. _E. K. Chambers._ The Mediaeval Stage. 2 vols.

1903. _Andrew Lang_ in _F