Sir William Strickland

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“‘Tirra Tirra,’ by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.

Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)