 | 1834 - 480 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 476 str.
...dame made a 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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 str.
...dame made a 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... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 468 str.
...dame made a 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 str.
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 864 str.
...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.... | |
 | 1855 - 846 str.
...daughter of that old King Cole of whom the song says, with such delicious and iterated emphasis, that he Was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he ; whether she was daughter of a venerable potentate or of a joyous inn-keeper; whether she was born... | |
 | 1846 - 300 str.
.... 185 18. 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,... | |
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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. 
