[33] “The Epidemics of the Middle Ages.” London, 1859. [34] The word is, of course, derived from _Instrumentum_. [35] See “Fretella,” in Ducange, “Fistulæ species.” [36] M. Gilbert prints, “As the dew flies,” etc.; this is a mistake--“doo” is _dove_. [37] Possibly we may have this in the still popular Cornish lament, “Have you seen my Billy coming?” [38] On December 14, 1624, as many as 128 ballads were licensed, the names of which are given. “The Blind Beggar (of Bethnal Green);” “Maudline of Bristowe (The Merchant’s Daughter of Bristol);” “Sweet Nansie I doe love thee;” “The Lady’s Fall;” “My minde to me a kingdom is” (Sir Edward Dyer’s famous song); “Margaret, my sweetest;” “In London dwelt a merchantman;” “I am sorry, I am sorry;” “In May when flowers springe;” “I am a poore woman and blinde;” “The Devil and the Paritor (Apparitor);” “It was a Lady’s daughter;” “Roger’s Will;” “Bateman (Lord);” “Bride’s Good Morrow;” “The King and the Shepherd;” “As I went forth one summer’s day;” “Amintas on a summer’s day;” “Ah me, not to thee alone;” “Sir John Barley Corne;” “It was a youthful knight;” “Jane Shore;” “Before my face;” “George Barnwell;” “From Sluggish Sleepe;” “Down by a forrest;” “The Miller and the King;” “Chevie Chase;” “How shall we good husbands live;” “Jerusalem, my happie home;” “The King and the Tanner;” “Single life the only way;” “The Lord of Lorne;” “In the daies of old;” “I spide a Nymph trip over the plaine;” “Shakeing hay;” “Troy Toun;” “Walking of late abroad;” “Kisse and bide me welcome home;” “The chirping larke;” “John Carelesse;” “Tell me, Susan, certenly;” “Spanish Lady;” “When Arthur first in Court;” “Diana and her darlings;” “Dear love, regard my life;” “Bride’s buryal;” “Shakeing of the sheets;” “A rich merchantman;” “Gilian of Bramfield;” “Fortune my Foe;” “Cripple of Cornwall;” “Whipping the catt at Abingdon;” “On yonder hill there springs;” “Upon a summertime;” “The Miser of Norfolk.” [39] Friedrich (J.B.) Geschichte des Räthsels, Dresden, 1860. [40] “Le Dieu Gaulois du Soleil,” Paris, 1886. [41] “Scriptores rer. German. Frankof.,” 1718, p. 508. [42] “Eckhard, Monument. Jutreboc,” p. 59. [43] “Anton, Versaml. uber Sitten d. alten Slawen,” II. p. 97. [44] The date on this stone is only 1807, so that the practice must be very modern. [45] Other dolmens with holes at Trye-le-Château, Presles, les Mauduits, in Seine et Oise; at Vic-sur-Aisne; at Bellehaye, and at Villicor--Saint Sépulcre (Oise); and others are in the Morbihan, Charente, etc. [46] What we in England term cromlechs, the French more correctly call dolmens. [47] The building up of part of the circle round a cairn was probably to block the way of the spirit in the direction of the village occupied by the living. [48] Bull. de la Soc. d’anthropologie de Paris, t. ix., p. 198. [49] Reinsberg Düringsfeld. “Trad. et Legendes de la Belgique,” 1870, T. II., p. 239. [50] Journal of the British Archæological Association, vol. xxxviii., 1882.