 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.  The Nursery Rhymes of England - Page 421858 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo. BuitNs. The Lion and the Unicorn. The lion and the unicorn 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... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1833 - 154 pages
...and some to the rock, Some to make hay, and some to shell corn, And you and I will keep the bed warm. The Lion and the Unicorn Were fighting for the crown — The lion beat the unicorn AU about the town.. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake,... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - English language - 1837 - 316 pages
...such perill with him for to mete ? CHAUCER. * Over the fields and along the towns [villages]. 2.—The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave him white bread, Some gave him plum cake, And sent him out of town. Die laeyen end die u nick oe'ren... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...prevent the sport ? The bargain's bad in every part — The wife's the worst ; drive on the cart !" XLII. THE lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown...beat the unicorn, All round about the town. Some gave him white bread, Some gave him plum cake, And sent him out of town. XLIII. DOCTOR Faustus was a good... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...prevent the sport ? The bargain's bad in every part — The wife's the worst ; drive on the cart !" XLII. THE lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown...beat the unicorn, All round about the town. Some gave him white bread, Some gave him plum cake, And sent him out of town. XLIII. DOCTOR Faustus was a good... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...prevent the sport ? The bargain's bad in every part — The wife's the worst ; drive on the cart !" XLII. THE lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown...beat the unicorn, All round about the town. Some gave him white bread, Some gave him plum cake, And sent him out of town. XLIII. DOCTOR Faustus was a good... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...prevent the sport ? The bargain's bad in every part — The wife's the worst ; drive on the cart !" THE lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown...beat the unicorn, All round about the town. Some gave him white bread, And some gave him brown ; Some gave him plum cake, And sent him out of town. LIV.... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...LITTLE Tommy Tittlemouse Lived in a little house; He caught fishes In other men's ditches. LV. LVI. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown;...Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out of town. LVII. THERE was a jolly miller Lived on the river Dee, He look'd upon his pillow, And there he saw... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1908 - 678 pages
...distich in question forms the opening of an old song, the first verse of which is as follows : — The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn all round the town. Some pave them white bread, and some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum cake and drummed... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo. BURNS. The Lion and the Unicorn. The lion and the unicorn 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... | |
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