‘Linne,’ ‘Lin,’ _Young Bekie_, 5.4; _Old Robin of Portingale_, 2.1. A stock ballad-locality, castle or town. Perhaps to be identified with the city of Lincoln, perhaps with Lynn, or King’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 Encyclopædia 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 Cyclopædia, 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 Mediæval Stage. 2 vols. 1903. _Andrew Lang_ in _Folk-Lore_ for June. 1903. _J. H. Millar._ A Literary History of Scotland. B.--Collections of Ballads [_This list does not pretend to be exhaustive, but to give the more important collections, especially those containing trustworthy Introductions._] 1723-25. A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. 3 vols. London.