A cat, a rat, and Lovell the dogs

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Actually the man was executed for trying bro suborn a man into taking a secret message to Henry Tudor about Richard's military strength and to encourage him to invade.

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Actually the man was executed for trying bro suborn a man into taking a secret message to Henry Tudor about Richard's military strength and to encourage him to invade.

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Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, King Lear: V, iii
What if my house be troubled with a rat Merchant of Venice: IV, i

Pythagoras' time, that I was an irish rat, which i As You Like It: III, ii
Eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and King Lear: III, iv

Whips out his rapier, cries, 'a rat, a rat!' Hamlet: IV, i
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk? Romeo and Juliet: III, i

Both your houses! 'zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a Romeo and Juliet: III, i
As I would serve a rat.' Cymbeline: V, v

And, like a rat without a tail, Macbeth: I, iii


William Shakespeare, gentleman

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It was written by a man called William Collingbourne, and posted on the door of St Paul's Cathedral (and/or possibly on the door of his local church in Wiltshire). He was an important and prosperous landowner who turned against Richard III after he seized the throne. The rhyme was a slander against Richard and his three chief ministers - Catesby, Ratcliffe and Lovell.
Far from being let off, he was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered - allegedly still being alive when his heart was pulled out of his torso