What a comfort ’tis to mention
Neither drew the old age pension.
PRINTING started through the Nation
A taste for higher education;
Here is a citizen at home;
Note his very brainy Dome.
Richard III. 1483–1485
RICHARD (Crookback) in fateful hour
Smothered his nephews in the Tower,
He murdered them the Crown to gain;
A heavy price for three years’ reign.
The Scutcheon’s blotted terribly
Of this King Richard number Three,
For it seems his recreation
Was ordering decapitation.
1485
On Bosworth Field when sorely pressed
He made a bid th’uncommonest
‘My kingdom for a horse’ he cried;
No offers coming, there he died.