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Spink, spingk, n. the primrose, the lady's-smock.

When she gathered her first posy of lady's-smock in the long water meadow near the mill, the little milk-white flowers said, "Why have you been away from us so long?"

Those who adopt this view called the plant Our Lady's-smock, but I cannot find that name in any old writers.

The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.

“Search in the fields for a lady’s-smock; Where could you find you a prettier frock?”