Nor does a child experience lack of freedom. She thinks

(31) A cake composed of oatmeal, caraway-seeds, and treacle. 'Ale and parkin' is a common morning meal in the north of England.

(32) We have heard a Yorkshire yeoman sing a version, which commenced with this line:-

' It was at the time of a high holiday.'

(33) Bell-ringing was formerly a great amusement of the English, and the allusions to it are of frequent occurrence. Numerous payments to bell-ringers are generally to be found in Churchwarden's accounts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - CHAPPELL.

(34) The subject and burthen of this song are identical with those of the song which immediately follows, called in some copies THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, SUNG TO THE KING AT WINDSOR, and in others, I CANNOT COME EVERYDAY TO WOO. The Kentish ditty cannot be traced to so remote a date as the CLOWN'S COURTSHIP; but it probably belongs to the same period.

(35) The common modern copies read 'St. Leger's Round.'

(36) The common stall copies read 'Pan,' which not only furnishes a more accurate rhyme to 'Nan,' but is, probably, the true reading. About the time when this song was written, there appears to have been some country minstrel or fiddler, who was well known by the sobriquet of 'Pan.' Frequent allusions to such a personage may be found in popular ditties of the period, and it is evidently that individual, and not the heathen deity, who is referred to in the song of ARTHUR O'BRADLEY:-

'Not Pan, the god of the swains, Could e'er produce such strains.' - See ANTE, p. 142.