 | Thornhagh Gurdon - Courts baron and courts leet - 1731 - 470 pages
...he was flain. Sir William Collingborn of Lydiard in Wiltjhire was hanged for this Diftich. 'The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel the Dog, Rule all England under a Hog. Nt, The Houfe of Tork not holding the Crown above twenty four Years ; we have no Hiftorian that wrote... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1771 - 328 pages
...family of York, which was a boar. Whereto relate thofe famous old verfes on Richard III. 'The cat, the rat, and Lovel the dog Rule all England under a hog. He ufes the fame metaphor in the laft fcene of act 4. Pop E. P. 451. 1. 14. Faithful man. ] Not an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 476 pages
...family of York, which was a boar. Whereto relate those famous old verses on Richard III : The cat, the rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under a hog. Ciij He He uses the same metaphor in the last scene of aft iv. POPE. A frank was not a common hog.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 526 pages
...family of York, which was a boar. Whereto relate those famous old verses on Richard HI. : " The cat, the rat, and Lovel the dog, " Rule all England under a hog." God pardon them that are the cause of it ! Rir. A virtuous and a christian-like conclusion, To pray... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton - Great Britain - 1836 - 578 pages
...Counsaill house." At that time, Sir John Catesby, whose family name the often-quoted distich, " Catesby the rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under...the * Harl. MS. No. 433, fol. 35 b. f Idem, fol. 53. 1 Idem, fol. 57. § Idem, fol. 64. II Idem, fol. 7'j. Z King's Private Palace, was granted for life,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton - Great Britain - 1836 - 578 pages
...Counsaill house." At that time, Sir John Catesby, whose family name the often-quoted distich, " Catesby the rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under...their fee" for his salary.|| The office of keeping the * Hari. MS No. 433, fol. 35 b. f Idem, fol. 53. 1 Idem, ful. 57. § Idem, fol. 64. I! Idem, fol. 79.... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton - Great Britain - 1836 - 584 pages
...name the often-quoted distich, " Catesby the rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under a HOR,"— has rendered so notorious, "was keeper of the Palace...office of keeping the * Harl. MS. No. 433, fol. 35 b. f Uem, fol. 53. I Idem, fol. 57. 5 Idem, fol. 64. || Idem, foi. 79. King's Private Palace, was granted... | |
 | Martin Dunsford - 1836 - 300 pages
...Richard III, and one of three who formed his secret council, on whom the distich was made, "The cat, the rat, and Lovel the dog Rule all England under a hog." of Henry VII. He had, in the preceding year, been AD implicated in the duke of Buckingham's conspiracy... | |
 | Thomas Rossell Potter - Charnwood Forest (England) - 1842 - 380 pages
...of this Lord Level, Catesby, and Ratcliff, that the well-known distich was written :— " The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under a hog .'" by these remarkable favours of the Prince and the nobles. Sir Thomas More's* character of him can... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1844 - 288 pages
...the persons whose traditional demerit has been recorded in the often-quoted distich, — " The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel the Dog, Rule all England under a Hog." On the defeat of Richard's army, in the battle of Bosworth-field, Lord Lovel sought refuge in Flanders;... | |
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Westmynstre Hall, in a Towre vnder a house called Quene Margrettes Counsaill house." At that time, Sir John Catesby, whose family name the often-quoted distich, " Catesby the rat, and Lovel the dog, Rule all England under a hog," — has rendered so notorious,... 
