[Another version. The nurse sings the first line, and repeats it, time after time, until the expectant little one asks, what next? Then comes the climax.]

The king of France, the king of France,

with forty thousand men,

Oh, they all went up the hill, and so—came

back again!

XI.

At the siege of Belle-isle

I was there all the while,

All the while, all the while,

At the siege of Belle-isle.