 | 1875 - 676 Seiten
...is the nursery rhyme, of doubtful authority, and of which Halliwell's version runs thus : — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; Ho called for his pipe And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three ; Every fiddler... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 180 Seiten
...state of intoxication, abject, remorseful, and lachrymose — WILMOT sober, but affecting inebriety. He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three !" WILMOT. Ha, ha ! I imagine myself like Bacchus, between Silenus and his — ass ! EASY. Wilmot,... | |
 | 1850 - 216 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps - 1853 - 372 Seiten
...ACCUMULATIVE STORIES 282 SEVENTEENTH CLASS— LOCAL . . 299 EIGHTEENTH CLASS— RELICS . 803 INDEX ..... 817 FIRST CLASS— HISTORICAL. King Cole Was a merry old...can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three ! [The traditional Nursery Rhymes of England commence with a legendary satire on King Cole, who reigned... | |
 | Hymns - 1853 - 184 Seiten
...belong; Sweet is the fruit that you have peck'd, But sweeter far your song. 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... | |
 | 1853 - 708 Seiten
...some well-known historical lines were found in Shakspere, it would evidently need emendation. "Old King Cole Was a merry old soul ; And a merry old soul be was. Ho call'd for his pipe. And ho call'd for his flddlen three." In such a case there could not... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 314 Seiten
...state of intoxication, abject, remorseful, and lachrymose — WILMOT sober, but affecting inebriety. " He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three." Ha, ha ! I imagine myself like Bacchus between Silenus and his — ass ! EASY. Wilmot, you're a jolly... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 564 Seiten
...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 his pipe, And he called for his fiddlers three." In such a case there could not... | |
 | John Strang - 1856 - 622 Seiten
...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 ! '... | |
 | Edward Fitch Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 344 Seiten
...the following language. " Jolly? yes, we'll be jolly. Old King Cole was a jolly old soul, and a jolly old soul was he. He called for his pipe and he called for his bowlwonder if he got it? My name is Dennis, my mother's maiden name was Moore, so that if I'd been... | |
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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. 
