 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Comedy - 1851 - 180 pages
...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,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | Hymns - 1853 - 184 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 708 pages
...version of 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 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...of 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 hia pipe, And he called for his fiddlers three." In such a case there could not... | |
 | John Strang - Clubs - 1856 - 622 pages
...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 - American wit and humor - 1857 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | Seba Smith - American literature - 1859 - 470 pages
...song. All I could hear of it was just this varse : " Old Uncle Sam 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 Baylor and me." As he passed by me I see the name on the starn of the boat was New York Courier and... | |
 | Seba Smith - American literature - 1859 - 506 pages
...song. All I could hear of it was just this varse : " Old Uncle Sam 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 Taylor and me.1' As he passed by me I see the name on the starn of the boat was New York Courier and... | |
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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. 
