From one end of England to the other all classes were constantly singing this idle rhyme.

It was especially the delight of the English army.

More than seventy years after the Revolution, a great writer delineated, with exquisite skill, a veteran who had fought at the Boyne and at Namur.

One of the characteristics of the good old soldier is his trick of whistling Lillibullero.

[449] Wharton afterwards boasted that he had sung a King out of three kingdoms.