(Encyclopedia) Grenville, Sir Richard, 1542?–1591, English naval hero. His cousin, Sir Walter Raleigh, gave him command of the fleet of seven vessels carrying the first colonists to Roanoke Island in…
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These words are not in Shakespeare's Richard III., but were interpolated from Colley Cibber by John Kemble. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Richard of…
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