The king of France went up the hill
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.”
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