 If I were King of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I 'd have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home." But. squire, are you really for peace at any price ? I remember what you once wrote in approval of the extermination of the Canaanites...  The Idea of a League of Nations - Page 21by Herbert George Wells, Edward Grey Grey of Fallodon (Viscount), Lionel Curtis, William Archer, Henry Wickham Steed, Alfred Zimmern, John Alfred Spender, James Bryce Bryce (Viscount), Gilbert Murray - 1919 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1893 - 1022 pages
...mothers at home, may think the price high, even for two such songs. Foster (humming half to himself). " If I were King of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I VI have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home." But, squire, are you really for peace... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 600 pages
...from Lombardy, and not from Lübeck or Lüneburg. It is the poor girl in the popular song who sings "If I were King of France, or still better Pope of Rome." It would only be a highly exclusive and even solitary gentleman who would sing "If I were a prince... | |
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