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Brewer's: Mutton-eating King
(The). Charles II. of England. The witty Earl of Rochester wrote this mock epitaph on his patron:
Here lies our mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on; He never said a foolish thing, And never didasis> a wise one.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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