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Thread #119173   Message #4016329
Posted By: Lighter
31-Oct-19 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Old King Cole
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old King Cole
“A Medley,” in Robert Pickersgill, ed., Mirth’s Magazine: or Momus’s Fund, a Collection of Humorous Songs, &c., from the most celebrated authors (London: ptd. for the compiler, [?1785]) includes the following “medleyed” lines (p. 23):

“Old King Cole he call’d for his bowl
And he call’d for…”