| Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 str.
...of some well-known historical 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 hia pipe, And he called for his fiddlers three." In such a case there could not... | |
| John Strang - 1856 - 622 str.
...snow occurred on the 10th February 1795. monarch of Britain, of whom the old ballad thuspeaks— .. 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 ! '... | |
| 1858 - 362 str.
...CLASS— LOCAL . . 299 EIGHTEENTH CLASS— RELICS . 303 INDEX . , . . ,317 FIRST CLASS— HISTORICAL. 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,... | |
| Charles William Jones - 1859 - 120 str.
...and rebuild their churches. — CHUKTON'S Early English Church. LESSON III. THE SAXON SETTLEMENTS. " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." THIS is pretty nearly all that is known of the history of this country for some hundreds of years.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 str.
...a 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 ? And was his dog proud because his master was called King ? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
| William Evans Burton - 1864 - 552 str.
...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 ? And was his dog proud because his master was called King ? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
| William Kelly (of Leicester.) - 1865 - 334 str.
...and that some who were less 1 Page 264. 2 Page 44. 3 We are told in an " antique song," that — " Old 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 harpers three. Ev'ry harper... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 460 str.
...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, And 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 for — The lass of Patie's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And in spite of all my skill,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 300 str.
...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, And 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 for — The lass of Patie's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And in spite of all my skill,... | |
| Egerton Leigh - 1867 - 376 str.
...Dr. 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 121. ' Day carbone notanda ! ' &c. — The Romans called a lucky day one ' Creta notanda,'... | |
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