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. The Flynns of Flynnville - Page 169by Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1880 - 277 pagesFull view - About this book
| T. R. M. - 1868 - 80 pages
...fall, Threescore men and threescore more Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. OLD KING COLE. LD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul...he ; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler, he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...only glorious lay we ever heard carolled forth under such circumstances is the famous old ballad — ' Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." But in the presence of the everlasting Guendolen, whose name Mr. Hope spells with a U, while Lord John... | |
| Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...storm has pass'd away. EEDLES and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. LD 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...some well-known hiatorical 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 his pipe, And he called for his fiddlers three." In such a case there could not... | |
| Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
...example take, And be from malice free ; Let every one his neighbour serve, As served he'd like to be. OLD KING COLE. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul,...he ; He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had... | |
| George Henry H. Hutchinson - Fishing - 1871 - 206 pages
...out, not in the soft strains of " Sweet Kichmond '111," but in a deep, rich, almost bass voice : — " 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." Poor C. ! from that time all was over... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - Fiction - 1872 - 462 pages
...successor of Asclepiad. He is further relegated to the realms of fable by the rhyme that sings, — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." See Halliwell's "Nursery Rhymes of England," where much curious information in regard to this celebrated... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...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 1" And was his dog proud because his master was called king ? Here are questions to be proposed in... | |
| James Henry - 1889 - 966 pages
...let him or no;" and ' ' Malbrouk /te went to the barber, the barber [he ?] wasn't at home ; " and " old king Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old...he : he called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his harpers three ; " in the last of which not only the " he " of the third... | |
| Frederic Edward Weatherly - Curiosity - 1874 - 168 pages
...forget my cares, and have a very merry time of it." And His Majesty trolled forth in a mellow voice : " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three." " But are you Old King Cole ? " asked Elsie, in astonishment.... | |
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