 | Egerton Leigh - 1867 - 374 páginas
...Cole. Line 119. ' He looked not at all like a merry old soul.' — An old English ballad begins Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, £c. Line lai. ' Day carbone notanda ! * &c.— The Romans called a lucky day one ' Creti notanda,*... | |
 | T. R. M. - 1868 - 80 páginas
...fall, Threescore men and threescore more Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. OLD KING COLE. LD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1850 - 632 páginas
...glorious lay we ever heard carolled forth under such circumstances is the famous old ballad — ' Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." But in the presence of the everlasting Guendolen, whose name Mr. Hope spells with a U, while Lord John... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 páginas
...storm has pass'd away. EEDLES and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. LD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul...call'd for his fiddlers three, Every fiddler, he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he ; Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers. Oh, there's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 páginas
...some well-known hiatorical lines were found in Shakespeare, it would evidently need emendation : " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul ; And a merry old soul he was. He call'd for his pipe, And he called for his fiddlers three." In such a case there could not... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 páginas
...from malice free ; Let every one his neighbour serve, As served he'd like to be. OLD KING COLE. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler... | |
 | George Henry H. Hutchinson - 1871 - 206 páginas
...not in the soft strains of " Sweet Kichmond '111," but in a deep, rich, almost bass voice : — " 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." Poor C. ! from... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 páginas
...successor of Asclepiad. He is further relegated to the realms of fable by the rhyme that sings, — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." See Halliwell's "Nursery Rhymes of England," where much curious information in regard to this celebrated... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...dung-cart, and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says : — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he 1" And was his dog proud because his master was called king ? Here are questions to be proposed in... | |
 | James Henry - 1889 - 966 páginas
...him or no;" and ' ' Malbrouk /te went to the barber, the barber [he ?] wasn't at home ; " and " old king Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he : he called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his harpers three ; " in the last... | |
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OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. 
