King of the Castle
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Peatie
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Released:
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
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Origin:
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West Midlands, United Kingdom
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In Bergrothenfels Meet & Greet 2019
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To visit as many caches as possible with a "view" & from which it would be appropriate to shout the children's rhyme "I'm the King of the Castle".
The rhyme "I'm the king of the castle, and you're the dirty rascal" relates to an english boy's game dating back at least to the 1850's, known as King of the Hill in which one player got on the top of a little hillock or mound of dirt and shouted " I'm the King of the Castle, Get down you dirty rascal"
It is thought to go back much further than that. There's a near-contemporary account of the siege of Hume Castle in the English/Scottish Civil War (1651)in which the Roundhead commander Colonel Fenwick demanded the surrender of the castle, and the governor, Thomas Cockburn, replied to him thus:
"I William of the Wastle
Am now in my Castle,
And awe the Dogs in the Town
Shan't gar me gang down."
- whereupon "Col. Fenwick having placed a battery against the Castle, returns him Heroick Verse for his Resolute Rhymes".
There's no suggestion that Cockburn invented this bit of doggerel; he was obviously using a well-known children's rhyme, which indeed may already have been anything up to a millennium old. There are French and German equivalents, and in 20 BC the poet Horace wrote down the Latin verse that Roman children used for the same game:
Rex erit qui recte faciet;
Qui non faciet, non erit.
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