 | Folklore - 1888 - 916 pages
...rhymes, and commence with what is undoubtedly* the oldest of all our children's tales," OLD KINO COLE. " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old...fiddle had he ; Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the f,ddlers. * ?, especially if pipe does not mean a musical instrument. Oh, there's none so rare As can... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - Psychology - 1901 - 662 pages
...contrary, How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old...for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. If all the world were apple pie, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese,... | |
 | New England - 1888 - 704 pages
...others drinks because they must. H'm, I wonder to which cat-cate-gory do I belong? (Drinks, then sings.) Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old...for his bowl. And he called for his fiddlers three. No offence to King Cole, au contraire, as our French cousins say ; God bless his memory ! Here's to... | |
 | 1888 - 634 pages
...— " King Cole '' became long ago the undignified hero of a popular ditty. Everybody has heard how Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he ; He called for bis pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers three. It is the same with "Le... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English language - 1888 - 444 pages
...and was a common mode of address to a company or multitude of soldiers, hunters, or boon companions. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, And he called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Of all... | |
 | Arthur Rackham - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 132 pages
...went the fiddlers. Oh, there's none so rare, As can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three! 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. Now every harper, he had a harp, And a very fine harp had he; Twang, twang, twang, went... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1995 - 516 pages
...or phrases of the structure of the first. It is most simply illustrated by the nursery rhyme line, "Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he." Chiasmus is quite common in the Bible: "We have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at... | |
 | Jo Laurence - 1996 - 53 pages
...said, "What a good boy am I!" He stuck in his thumb And pulled out a plum Eating his Christmas pie; Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called jor this pipe, And he called jor his drum, And he called jor his jiddlers three. Circle tkc word tkat... | |
 | Cassi Harris - 1997 - 92 pages
...remember. So he wrote ya's a letter. (She cheerfully fumbles back into the bag.) "Oh, St. Aloycious was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he... " KIT. The old man died? RUBY. We buried him outside'a Bean Blossom. With the rest'a his kinfolk. KIT.... | |
 | Altagracia A. Santana - Child development - 1998 - 114 pages
...included to facilitate fine motor skills, as child uses fingers and hands to imitate playing instruments. Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he. He called for his pipe, he called for his drum and he called for his fiddlers three. (Pantomime playing a flute, a drum, 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. 
