"The Lord said to his ladie,
As he mounted his horse,
Beware of Long Lonkin
That lies in the moss."

And goes on to tell how Long Lonkin crept in at "one little window"
which was left unfastened, and was counselled by the wicked maiden to--

"Prick the babe in the cradle"

as the only means of bringing down the poor mother, whom he wished to
kill.

Are there any other traditions of him, and can he have any connection
with the name bestowed by children on the middle finger, in the
following elegant rhyme?--

"Tom Thumbkin,
Will Wilkins,
Long Lonkin," &c.?

This I had always supposed merely to refer to the length of the finger,
but the coincidence of names is curious.

SELEUCUS.

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