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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Yet the wild worme of vengeance wauering in his head, could not be content with the death of di|uerse gentlemen suspected of treason; but also he must extend his bloudie furie against a poore gentle|man called Collingborne, for making a small rime of three of his vnfortunate councellors, which were the lord Louell, sir Richard Ratcliffe his mischee|uous minion, and sir William Catesbie his secret seducer, which méeter or rime was thus framed:

The Cat, the Rat, and Louell our dog,
Rule all England vnder an hog.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Meaning by the hog, the dreadfull wild boare, which was the kings cognisance. But bicause the first line ended in dog, the metrician could not (obseruing the regiments of méeter) end the second verse in boare, but called the boare an hog. This poeticall schoolemaister, corrector bréefs and longs, caused Collingborne to be abbreuiated shorter by the head,Collingborne executed. and to be diuided into foure quarters.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here is to be noted,Collingborne indictment. that beside the rime which is reported by some to be the onelie cause for which this gentleman suffered, I find in a register booke of in|dictements concerning fellonies and treasons by sundrie persons committed, that the said Colling|borne (by the name of William Collingborne) late of Lidyard in the countie of Wilshire esquier, and o|ther his associats were indicted in London: for that they about the tenth daie of Iulie, in this second yeare of king Richards reigne, in the parish of saint Botulphes in Portsoken ward had solicited and re|quested one Thomas Yate, offering to him for his paines eight pounds, to go ouer into Britaine vnto Henrie erle of Richmond,Collingbo [...] a fauourer [...] the earle of Richmond. Thomas marquesse Dor|set, Iohn Cheineie esquier, and others, which in the last parlement holden at Westminster had beene atteinted of sundrie high treasons by them practised within the kings dominion.

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