The Daughters of Richard I. When Richard was in France, Fulco, a priest, told him he ought to beware how he bestowed his daughters in marriage. “I have no daughters,” said the king. “Nay, nay,” replied Fulco, “all the world knows that you have three—Pride, Covetousness and Lechery.” “If these are my daughters,” said the king, “I know well how to bestow them where they will be well cherished. My eldest I give to the Knights Templars, my second to the monks; and my third I cannot bestow better than on yourself, for I am sure she will never be divorced nor neglected.”—Thomas Milles, True Nobility (1610).
The Horse of Richard I., Fennel.
Ah, Fennel, my noble horse, thou bleedest, thou art slain!—Cœur de Lion and His Horse.
The Troubadour of Richard I., Bertrand de Born.
Richard Pennyroyal, unhappy man whose weary indifference to his first wife heightens into aversion as she becomes insane. He is relieved when she drowns herself. His second wife, passionately beloved, is unfaithful to him, and loathes him as he drinks more and more to drown disappointment. His rival triumphs over him in a struggle for property, but Richard has his wife still. Straying one night toward the pool in which his first wife drowned herself, he comes upon the false wife and her lover, challenges the latter to a duel then and there, and is shot through the heart. His body is tossed into the pool and never discovered.—Julian Hawthorne, Archibald Malmaison (1878).
Richard II’s Horse, Roan Barbary.—Shakespeare, Richard II. act v. sc. 5 (1597).
Richard III., a tragedy by Shakespeare (1597). At one time parts of Rowe’s tragedy of Jane Shore were woven in the acting edition, and John Kemble introduced other clap-traps from Colley Cibber. The best actors of this part were David Garrick (1716-1779), Henry Mossop (1729-1773) and Edmund Kean (1787-1833).
Richard III. was only 19 years old at the opening of Shakespeare’s play.—Sharon Turner.
The Horse of Richard III., White Surrey.—Shakespeare, Richard III. act v. sc. 3 (1597).
Richard’s himself again! These words were interpolated by John Kemble from Colley Cibber.