 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 páginas
...never did him any harm, And killed the mice in his father's barn. « Next THE LION AND THE UNICORN. THE lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown, The lion beat the unicorn all round about the town ; Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown, Some gave them plum cake,... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 páginas
...spell "pic," Let him stand there so grim, And no more about him, For I wish him a very good bye ! LXXX. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown : The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ;. Some gave them plum cake,... | |
 | 1876 - 160 páginas
...riding ? To this I answered not: I shirked another hiding upon a tender spot. The Lion and the Unicorn. THE Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown; The Lion knocked the Unicorn twice upside down. Some gave him white bread, and some gave him brown, For they... | |
 | Between whiles - 1877 - 448 páginas
...small a part of time they share, that are so wondrous sweet and fair. WALLER. The Lion and the Unicorn. THE lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown ; the lion beat the unicorn all round the town. some gave him white bread ; some gave him brown ; some gave him plum-cake, and sent... | |
 | 1878 - 252 páginas
...sucks little birds' eggs, To make his voice clear ; And when he sings " cuckoo ! " The summer is near. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown : The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake,... | |
 | M. Sullivan - 1879 - 322 páginas
...about them, which he remembered hearing ever since he could remember anything. The rhyme was this :— The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn, And drove him round the town. " But I suppose that rhyme does not mean anything, as there are no unicorns,"... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - 1881 - 146 páginas
...be granted to England " in accordance with the sentiment of certain wellknown classical lines: — '"The Lion and the Unicorn Were fighting for the Crown, The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town.'"4 1 Scottish Heraldry, p. 445. 2 Vol ii. part iii. p. 90. 3 Sir George Mackenzie says:... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - 1881 - 144 páginas
...be granted to England " in accordance with the sentiment of certain wellknown classical lines: — '"The Lion and the Unicorn Were fighting for the Crown, The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town.'"4 1 Scottish Heraldry, p. 445. 2 Vol ii. part iii. p. 90. 3 Sir George Mackenzie says... | |
 | Queen - 1883 - 80 páginas
...killed the mice in his father's barn. * Next. THE LION AND THE UNICORN. 19 THE LION AND THE UNICORN. THE lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown, The lion beat the unicorn all round about the town ; Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown, Some gave them plum cake,... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 páginas
...I could not get my wife home with-out a wheelbar-row ; The wheel-bar-row broke, my wife got a fall, The Li-on and the U-ni-corn were fight-ing for the crown, The Li-on beat the U-ni-corn all round a-bout the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake,... | |
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The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown : The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread and some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town. 
