<Dd> and drummed them out of town . </Dd> <P> The legend of the two animals may have been intensified by the Acts of Union 1707 and it was one year later that William King (1663--1712) recorded a verse very similar to the first stanza of the modern rhyme . This seems to have grown to include several other verses . Apart from those above only one survives: </P> <Dl> <Dd> And when he had beat him out, </Dd> <Dd> He beat him in again; </Dd> <Dd> He beat him three times over, </Dd> <Dd> His power to maintain . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> And when he had beat him out, </Dd>

The lion and the unicorn nursery rhyme meaning