 | 1834
...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
...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
...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 ? Χεςε are questions to be proposed in the... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841
...kings. The following two versions differ 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 ; < ild King Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his fiddlers three, &c. " The first, he was... | |
 | Conway Edwards - 1841 - 79 pages
...BELLOWS. And file my eyes, if you shall ever laugh at it ! Now, chorus, lads ! SONG. " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." Chontt "Was he," Sec. (All stamp their feet, and dash their pints on the table.) OMNES (when finished).... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 144 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... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841
...kings. The following two versions differ 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 King Coel, He sat in his hole, And he call'd for his fiddlers three, &c. " The first, he was... | |
 | 1842
...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... | |
 | Alfred Crowquill - 1843
...more ancient than the renowned King Cole, of pleasant memory ? for the poet distinctly avers, that " He called for his pipe, and he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three." After such an assertion, can there exist a doubt that " he had a call," as Mawworm quaintly expresseth... | |
 | 1855
...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... | |
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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. 
