Brewer's: Sanglier

(Sir). Meant for Shan O'Neil, leader of the Irish insurgents in 1567. (Spenser : Faërie Queene, v.)

Sanglier des Ardennes.
Guillaume de la Marck, driven from Lièe, for the murder of the Bishop of Lièe, and beheaded by the Archduke Maximilian. (1446-1485.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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