The miller was drowned in his dam, The weaver was hung in his loom, The devil ran away with the little tailor With the broadcloth under his arm. (1842, p. 3.) Chappell printed the words of the song of Old King Cole in several variations, and pointed out that _The Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading, or the Six Worthie Yeomen of the West_ of 1632, contains the legend of one Cole, a cloth-maker of Reading at the time of King Henry I, and that the name "became proverbial owing to the popularity of this book." "There was some joke or conventional meaning among Elizabethan dramatists," he says, "when they gave the name of Old Cole, which it is now difficult to recover." Dekker in the _Satiromatrix_ of 1602, and Marston in _The Malcontent_ of 1604, applied the name to a woman. On the other hand, Ben Jonson in _Bartholomew Fair_ gave the name of Old Cole to the sculler in the puppet-play _Hero and Leander_ which he there introduces.[10] In face of this information, what becomes of the identity of the supposed king? [10] Chappell, _Popular Music of the Olden Time_, 1893, p. 633. On the other hand a long ancestry is now claimed for certain characters of nursery fame who seemed to have no special claim to attention. The following verse appears in most collections of rhymes, and judging from the illustration which accompanies it in the toy-books, it refers sometimes to a boy and a girl, sometimes to two boys. Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a bottle of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after. (_c._ 1783, p. 51.) [Later collections have _Jill_ and _pail_.] This verse, as was first suggested by Baring-Gould,[11] preserves the Scandinavian myth of the children Hjuki and Bill who were caught up by Mani, the Moon, as they were taking water from the well Byrgir, and they can be seen to this day in the moon carrying the bucket on the pole between them. [11] Baring-Gould, _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, 1866, p. 189. Another rhyme cited by Halliwell from _The New Mad Tom o'Bedlam_ mentions Jack as being the Man in the Moon:-- The Man in the Moon drinks claret, But he is a dull Jack-a-dandy; Would he know a sheep's head from a carrot, He should learn to drink cider or brandy. (1842, p. 33.) According to North German belief, a man stands in the moon pouring water out of a pail (K., p. 304), which agrees with expressions such as "the moon holds water." In a Norse mnemonic verse which dates from before the twelfth century, we read, "the pail is called Saeg, the pole is called Simul, Bil and Hiuk carry them" (C. P., I, 78).