O! I went into the stable, to see what I could see. {207} Three cabbage-nets, according to some versions. {208a} This is a common phrase in old English songs and ballads. See _The Summer’s Morning_, _post_, p. 229. {208b} See _ante_, p. 82. {209a} Near. {209b} The high-road through a town or village. {209c} That is Tommy’s opinion. In the Yorkshire dialect, when the possessive case is followed by the relative substantive, it is customary to omit the _s_; but if the relative be understood, and not expressed, the possessive case is formed in the usual manner, as in a subsequent line of this song:— ‘Hee’d a horse, too, ‘twor war than ond Tommy’s, ye see.’ {210a} Alive, quick. {210b} Only. {213} Famished. The line in which this word occurs exhibits one of the most striking peculiarities of the Lancashire dialect, which is, that in words ending in _ing_, the termination is changed into _ink_. _Ex. gr._, for starving, _starvink_, farthing, _fardink_. {217} In one version this line has been altered, probably by some printer who had a wholesome fear of the ‘Bench of Justices,’ into— ‘Success to every gentleman That lives in Lincolnsheer.’ {221a} Dr. Whitaker gives a traditional version of part of this song as follows:— ‘The gardener standing by proferred to chuse for me, The pink, the primrose, and the rose, but I refused the three; The primrose I forsook because it came too soon, The violet I o’erlooked, and vowed to wait till June. In June, the red rose sprung, bat was no flower for me, I plucked it up, lo! by the stalk, and planted the willow-tree. The willow I must wear with sorrow twined among, That all the world may know I falshood loved too long.’