E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Roger.
The cook in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. “He cowde roste, sethe, broille, and frie. Make mortreux, and wel bake a pye;” but Herry Bailif, the host, said to him—
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“Now telle on, Roger, and loke it he good;
For many a Jakk of Dover hastow sold.
That hath be twyës hoot and twyës cold.”
Verse 4343.
Roger Bontemps. (See BONTEMPS.)
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The Jolly Roger. The black flag, the favourite ensign of pirates.
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“Set all sail, clear the deck, stand to quarters, up with the Jolly Roger!”—Sir Walter Scott: The Pirate, chap. xxxi.
Roger of Bruges. Roger van der Weyde, painter. (1455–1529.)
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Roger de Coverley. A dance invented by the great-grandfather of Roger de Coverley, or Roger of Cowley, near Oxford. Named after the squire described in Addison’s Spectator.
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Roger of Hoveden or Howden, in Yorkshire, continued Bede’s History from 732 to 1202. The reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. are very fully given. The most matter-of-fact of all our old chroniclers; he indulges in no epithets or reflections.
