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 Richard Cœur de Lion.Richard III.’s Horse. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Richard II.’s Horse.
 
Roan Barbary. (See HORSE.)   1
       
“Oh, how it yearned my heart when I beheld
In London streets, that coronation day,
When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
That horse that I so carefully have dressed.”
       
Shakespeare: Richard II., v. 5.
 


 Richard Cœur de Lion.Richard III.’s Horse. 

 
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