 | 1834 - 480 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Conway Edwards - 1841 - 104 pages
...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).... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 476 pages
...curtsey, The dog made a bow ; The dame said, your servant, The dog said, bow, wow. LXXVII. OLD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; And he called for his pipe, And he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. And... | |
 | 1842 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 300 pages
...RELICS . . . . . .189 19. LIFE AND DEATH OP TOM THUMB . . . 205 FIRST CLASS—HISTORICAL. 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,... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - 118 pages
...put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ! *§5» 50. ALD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler,... | |
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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. 
