 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...principle.. — ED. BCRKE. — The right divine of KINGS to govern wrong. — POPE, Duneiad. King Cole— Old KING COLE Was a merry old soul. And a merry old soul was he. HALLIWELL, Nursery Rhymes of England — The venerable KING COLE would find few subjects here to acknowledge... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1878 - 252 pages
...beard, Without tooth or tongue, If you'll give me your finger, I'll give you my thumb. Old King Cole90 Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he...fiddle had he ; Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers. O, there's none so rare, As can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three ! Old Mistress... | |
 | Frank Cowan - Pennsylvania - 1878 - 436 pages
...man's breast, And attuned his soul to song. "It was Old King Coal, was a jolly old soul, And a jolly old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, "And when he had smoked and quaffed his fill, And heard his fiddlers three, He shook in his hall and began... | |
 | James Barmby - Children's plays - 1879 - 224 pages
...(Beefeater places a punch-bowl on the table. The King fills his glass, and begins the song.) (Song.) Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul...and he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he ! Fiddle-diddle-dee went the fiddlers, fiddle-diddle-dee... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 386 pages
...COURTIERS, GUARDS, &c., discovered. Air and Chorus — AMBASSADOR and SUITE — " Old King Cole." Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; Till he lost his only daughter, Who was taken on the water, And drowned in her infancy. Ever since... | |
 | James Barmby - 1880 - 224 pages
...(Beefeaterplaces a punch-bowl on the table. The King fills his glass, and begins the song,) (Song.) Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul...and he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he ! Fiddle-diddle-dee went the fiddlers, fiddle-diddle-dee!... | |
 | 1880 - 56 pages
...the fiddlers, Fiddle-diddle-dee ; But none were there who could compare With the sous of harmony. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul...and he called for his bowl, And he called for his buglers three : Too, too, too, went the buglers, Too, too, too ; Twang, twang, twang, went the harpers,... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1880 - 296 pages
...fol de rol de ri do ! ' There's no more ; and then what do you think of ' Old King Cole ' ? " ' Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul...he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his glass, And he called for his fiddlers three. Tweedle-dee, tweedle-dee ! said the fiddlers ' I don't... | |
 | James Henry - 1881 - 1022 pages
...Malbrouk he went to the barber, the barber [he /] wasn't at home ; " and " old king Cole was a mern,- old soul, and a merry old soul was he ; he called...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 line, but the whole third line... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1921 - 954 pages
...King Cole By WALT MASON Illustration by RALPH BARTON 0 LD KING COLE was a jolly old soul, and a jolly old soul was he; he called for his pipe and he called...for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers three." So we're informed by Mother Goose, whose tales of old were spun ; this Old King Cole, of morals loose,... | |
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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. 
