...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...

...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 ! ' ' But...

...CLASS— LOCAL . . 299 EIGHTEENTH CLASS— RELICS . 303 INDEX . , . . ,317 FIRST CLASS— HISTORICAL. 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. Every fiddler,...

...and rebuild their churches. — CHUKTON'S Early English Church. LESSON III. THE SAXON SETTLEMENTS. " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." THIS is pretty nearly all that is known of the history of this country for some hundreds of years....

...Martin, and wherefore should she so often be mentioned in connexion with my precious eye or your's ? Who was Ludlam, whose dog was so lazy that he leant...the Examination papers of some Australian Cambridge, two thousand years hence, when the people of that part of the world shall be as reasonably inquisitive...

...a wall to bark ? And who was old Cole, whose dog was so proud that he took the wall of a dung cart, and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the...the Examination Papers of some Australian Cambridge, two hundred years hence. FLOGGING AT SCHOOL.—If the dead have any cognizance of posthumous fame,...

...death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says, Old King Cole Was a merry old eoul. And a merry old soul was he ? And was his dog proud...the Examination papers of some Australian Cambridge, two thousand years hence, when the people ofthat part of the world shall be as reasonably inquisitive...

...and that some who were less 1 Page 264. 2 Page 44. 3 We are told in an " antique song," that — " Old 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 harpers three. Ev'ry harper...

...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, And next, a merry plough-boy, that whistled — Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for — The lass of Patie's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And in spite of all my skill,...

...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,'...