Brewer's: 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 hou so often hast bestrid, That horse that I so carefully have dressed.

Shakespeare: Richard II., v. 5.

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