 | Dame Goslin (pseud.) - 1851 - 110 str.
...of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl : And if the bowl had been stronger, My song would have been longer. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown...And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, 'TWAS the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday, Four and twenty tailors set out to hunt a snail ; The... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps - 1853 - 372 str.
...windows were made of black-pud dings and white, And slated with pancakes — you ne'er saw the like. 4$ THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown...sent them out of town. L1X. THERE was a jolly miller Lived on the river Dee, He look'd upon his pillow, And there he saw a flee. Oh ! Mr. Flea, You have... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - 1858 - 82 str.
...back the tarts, And vow'd he steal no more. HPHE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown, Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown...Some gave them plumcake, And sent them out of town. 'T'HE north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then ? Poor thing!... | |
 | George Seton - 1863 - 648 str.
...to England,2 in accordance with the sentiment of certain well-known classical lines :— " The Liou and the Unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town ! " 1 See a curious dialogue between Kingdom by the word England, Lord Redesdale and Mr. (afterwards... | |
 | 1856 - 502 str.
...diurnal revolution of the terrestrial * " Of as little use as two tails to a cat." — Yankecism. t " The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the nnicorn AH ahont the town." sphere, your trifling hydra, so readily despatched with a hot poker, when... | |
 | 1865 - 228 str.
...Mesdames ROMER, HILES, COTTRELL, BUBBINGTON, LOUISA PYNE. CONDUCTOR— Signer ARDITI. To be followed by THE LION AND THE UNICORN WERE FIGHTING FOR THE CROwN. The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town, Some gave them white bread and some gave them brown. The Novel and Magnificent Scenery... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - 1866 - 86 str.
...what will poor robin do then ? Poor thing ! HPHE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plumcake, And sent them out of the town. He 'll sit in a barn, To keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.... | |
 | Severn river - 1867 - 458 str.
...they bear, and the tales which they tell. BTBON. The Lion and the Unicorn. HE lion and the unicorn i 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 him out... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 str.
...gobble, gobble, gobble: The man on the hill, that couldn't stand still, Went hobble, hobble, hobble. HE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...round about the town. Some gave them white bread, Some gave them brown, Some gave them plumcake, And sent them out of town. Jane comes out with her brothers... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 374 str.
...of heraldic decoration) to a nursery rhyme which most of us remember : — " The Lion and the Unicom Were fighting for the crown ; The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town," &c. unless it alludes to a contest for dominion over the brute creation, which the " rebellious... | |
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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, some gave them brown: Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town. 
