Useful Transactions in Philosophy
Title: “Old King Cole”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1708
Publisher: Bernard LintottRoud Folk Song Index Number: 1164
2 characters in this story:
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[king] | Bernard Lintott | 30 | ||||||
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[played for Old King Cole] | Bernard Lintott | 2 |
Useful Transactions in Philosophy is also known as: Useful transactions in philosophy,: and other sorts of learning, for the months of March and April, 1709.
"Old King Cole" is traditional English nursery rhyme. The earliest known printed version of this nursery rhyme was published in William King's Useful Transactions in Philosophy. The nursery rhyme itself may have been created long before it was first recorded in print.
William King is the writer who recorded the nursery rhyme in Useful Transactions in Philosophy, but he probably did not write the nursery rhyme himself.
