 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the 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 ? Here are questions to be proposed in the Examination... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1841 - 510 pages
...kings. The following two versions diner 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 lung Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his ,/îddfers three, &c. " The first, he was... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | 1846 - 300 pages
...THUMB . . 125 . 129 . 136 . Ii3 . 159 .173 . 185 . 189 .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,... | |
 | Vauxhall comic song-book - 1847 - 238 pages
...all be, Tweedle twee! For there's none so rare As can compare To the sons of harmony! Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he j He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his pipers three. Every piper... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...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 V And was his dog proud because his master was called king ? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...for me ? THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OLD KING COLE Music—at Prowse's, 12, Hanway Street. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He call'd for his pipe, he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. There was Paganiiii... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1850 - 422 pages
...choruses of drinking songs— " ' Here's a health to the Queen, and God blesa her I' " ' Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he I' " ' And we'll not go home till morning, till daylight does appear I " As the Countess, shudderingly... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pages
...Who was Ludlam, whose dog was so lazy that he leant his head against a wall to bark? 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 ? And who was old Cole, whose dog was so proud... | |
 | Hymns - 1853 - 184 pages
...these plums belong; Sweet is the fruit that you have peck'd, I: !: 47.' Old King Cole. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; And he call'd for his pipe, and he call'd for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Ev'ry fiddler... | |
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famous ancient monarch of Britain, of whom the old ballad thus speaks— " Old King Coul Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he! And he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three! 
