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" 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. "
An Essay on the Archæology of Our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes - Page 251
by John Bellenden Ker - 1837
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The Nursery Rhyme Book

Andrew Lang - Animals - 1897 - 300 pages
...then they could not find him. He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never looked behind him. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. 63 Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out...
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Longmans' School Grammar

David Salmon - English language - 1899 - 296 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit...
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Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

William Thomas Fernie - Animal extracts - 1899 - 600 pages
...chiefly in jelly, as a restorative. A familiar rhyme of remote nursery antiquity tells how : — " The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town." Quite right, too, and what was to be expected ! But why, we wonder, did " Some give them white bread,...
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The Heart of Oak Books: First Book : Rhymes and Jingles

Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...Over the hills and far away." JACK of all trades and master of none. THE LION AND THE UNICORN. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn All about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake, And...
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Longmans' English Grammar

George James Smith - English language - 1901 - 360 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit...
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Longmans' English Grammar

George James Smith - English language - 1901 - 364 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit...
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Fairyland and fancy

Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 422 pages
...them." And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: "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...
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The First Book of Song and Story

Children's poetry - 1903 - 518 pages
...way to Norwich, He went by the south, And burned his mouth With supping cold pease-porridge. <*£ THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out of town. 23...
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The Heart of Oak Books: Rhymes, jingles, and fables

Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1903 - 138 pages
...boys; And they stopped to hear him play, " Over the hills and far away." THE LION AND THE UNICORN. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn All about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake, And...
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Fairyland and fancy

Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...them." And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: "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...
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