 | Egerton Leigh - 1867 - 376 pages
...Dr. Cole. Line 119. ' He looked not at all like a merry old soul.'— An old English ballad begins Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, &c. Line 121. ' Day carbone notanda ! ' &c. — The Romans called a lucky day one ' Creta notanda,'... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...only glorious lay we ever heard carolled forth under such circumstances is the famous old ballad — ' Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." But in the presence of the everlasting Guendolen, whose name Mr. Hope spells with a U, while Lord John... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...storm has pass'd away. EEDLES and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. LD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, And he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his fiddlers three, Every fiddler,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...some well-known hiatorical 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... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
...be from malice free ; Let every one his neighbour serve, As served he'd like to be. OLD KING COLE. OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he — Twee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers.... | |
 | George Henry H. Hutchinson - Fishing - 1871 - 206 pages
...out, not in the soft strains of " Sweet Kichmond '111," but in a deep, rich, almost bass voice : — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three." Poor C. ! from that time all was over... | |
 | A. Hoppe - English language - 1871 - 504 pages
...£elb cincS launigcit SicbeS : Old King Cole was a jolly old soul And a jolly old soul was he ; And he called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. ©tott bet fiddlers loerbcn in ben fotgcnben Stctnjcn Qiibcrc Siuftlanten gcfcfct, unb am Gnbc jcbcr... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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 1" And was his dog proud because his master was called king ? Here are questions to be proposed in... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Fiction - 1872 - 462 pages
...successor of Asclepiad. He is further relegated to the realms of fable by the rhyme that sings, — " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." See Halliwell's "Nursery Rhymes of England," where much curious information in regard to this celebrated... | |
 | James Henry - 1889 - 966 pages
...let him or no;" and ' ' Malbrouk /te went to the barber, the barber [he ?] wasn't at home ; " and " old king Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old...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 Hue, Imt the whole third line... | |
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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. 
