Chapter Rewe to Richard of Cirencester of R by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Rice thrown after a Bride It was an Indian custom, rice being, with the Hindus, an emblem of fecundity. The bridegroom throws three handfuls over the bride, and the bride does the same over the bridegroom. With us the rice is thrown by neighbours and friends. (See Marriage Knot .)

Rich as Croesus (See Croesus .)

Rich as a Jew This expression arose in the Middle Ages, when Jews were almost the only merchants, and were certainly the most wealthy of the people. There are still the Rothschilds among them, and others of great wealth.

Richard Coeur de Lion (See Bogie .)

“His tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, `Dost thou think King Richard is in the bush?”'- Gibbon: Decline and Fall, etc., xi. 146.

Richard II.'s Horse Roan Barbary. (See Horse .)

“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 III.'s Horse White Surrey (See Horse .)

“Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow.”
Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 8.

Richard Roe (See Doe .)

Richard is Himself again These words are not in Shakespeare's Richard III., but were interpolated from Colley Cibber by John Kemble.

Richard of Cirencester Sometimes called “The Monk of Westminster,” an early English chronicler. His chronicle On the Ancient State of Britain was first brought to light by Dr. Charles Julius Bertram, professor of English at Copenhagen in 1747; but the original (like the original of Macpherson's Ossian and of Joe Smith's Book of Mormon) does not exist, and grave suspicion prevails that all three are alike forgeries. (See Sanchoniatho.)