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VI.
THE King of France, and four thousand men
They drew their swords—and put them up again.

VIi.

[In a tract, called ‘‘ Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North,” 4to. Lond. 1642,
p- 3, this is called ‘‘Old Tarlton’s Song.” It is perhaps a parody on the popular
epigram of ‘‘Jack and Jill.” I do not know the period of the battle to which it

appears to allude, but Tarlton died in the year 1588, so that the rhyme must be
earlier, ]

THE King of France went up the hill,
With twenty thousand men;

The King of France came down the hill,
And ne’er went up again.

VIII.

THE King of France, with twenty thousand men,
Went up the hill, and then came down again ;

The King of Spain, with twenty thousand more,
Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

IX,

[Another version. The nurse sings the first line, and repeats it, time after time,
until the expectant little one asks, What next? Then comes the climax. ]

THE King of France, the King of France, with forty thousand
men,

Oh, they all went up the hill, and so—came back again!