Why not? If the marriage is freely chosen, isn’t it an

(47) The 'swearing-in' is gone through by females as well as the male sex. See Hone's YEAR-BOOK.

(48) A fig newly gathered from the tree; so called to distinguish it from a grocer's, or preserved fig.

(49) This line is sometimes sung -

O! I went into the stable, to see what I could see.

(50) Three cabbage-nets, according to some versions.

(51) This is a common phrase in old English songs and ballads. See THE SUMMER'S MORNING, POST, p. 229.

(54) The high-road through a town or village.

(55) 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:-