| 1834 - 480 páginas
...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, The next a merry plough-boy that whistled — Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd forThe lase of Patty's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And, in spite of all my skill,... | |
| 1838 - 308 páginas
...litas about such work, but I must certainly say — it's positively shocking. [Spart sings ici/bon!. " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his lass, His bottle and his glass, And he call'd for his fiddlers' three." Drill.... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...dungcart, and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom 'be song saysOld King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ? • And was his dog proud because his master was called King ? Чете are questions to be proposed in the... | |
| Conway Edwards - 1841 - 104 páginas
...expense! BELLOWS. And file my eyes, if you shall ever laugh at it ! Now, chorus, lads ! SONG. — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." Chontt — "Was he," Sec. (All stamp their feet, and dash their pints on the table.) OMNES (when finished).... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 páginas
...The Welshman had like to be chok'd by a mouse, But he pull'd her out by the tail." n. " Old King Coel Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; Old King Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his/npers three. " Thp first, he was a miller... | |
| Percy Society - 1841 - 468 páginas
...kings. The following two versions differ from that which I have printed in the text : I. " Old King Coel Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; Old King Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his fiddlers three, &c. " The first, he was... | |
| Percy Society - 1841 - 476 páginas
...kings. The following two versions differ from that which I have printed in the text : I. " Old King Coel Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; < ild King Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his fiddlers three, &c. " The first, he was... | |
| 1842 - 468 páginas
...gate of which he carried the key, he laid down his hat and walked into the supper-room, singing — " Old King Cole, was a merry old soul, " And a merry old soul was he, Sec. &c." The whole affair was the transaction of a few minutes, for so quickly had he managed, that... | |
| Alfred Crowquill - 1843 - 312 páginas
...more ancient than the renowned King Cole, of pleasant memory ? for the poet distinctly avers, that " He called for his pipe, and he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three." After such an assertion, can there exist a doubt that " he had a call," as Mawworm quaintly expresseth... | |
| 1921 - 864 páginas
...every happy commune of 'la douce France.' [The New Witness] OLD KING COLE: A PARODY BY GK CHESTERTON Old King Cole was a merry old soul. And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, He called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. After LORD TENXYSON.... | |
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