[Brian Allgar]

Having belatedly seen this thread (I wasn't a member at the time), I'd like to apologize to John and Chris for the "slight" inaccuracy in my Titus Andronicus - put it down to a combination of memory loss and poetic license.

If it's any consolation, I submitted fifteen other clearly-deserving entries, none of which got a look-in. As it happens, they included one on William the Conqueror:

Bazyvoo-tazyvoo, *
William the Conqueror
Fancied an outing to
Hastings and Rye ;
Found the inhabitants
Incomprehensible;
Offered King Harold a
Poke in the eye.

* Bastardisation of "Baisez-vous, taisez-vous", roughly translated as "F**k you, shut up!"

If I'm feeling really malicious, I may trot out a few of the others one of these days. In the meantime, I shall act on the old French saying cited above, and shut up.