The cat, the rat, and Lovell the dog, rule all England under the hog

"fight like cat and dog"


The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs.
解釋The cat, the rat, and Lovell the dog, rule all England under the hog

[Richard III executed] a poore gentleman called Collingborne [in 1484], for making a small rime of three of his‥ councellors,‥lord Louell, sir Richard Ratcliffe‥and sir William Catesbie. ‥The Cat, the Rat, and Louell our dog, Rule all England vnder an hog. Meaning by the hog, the‥wild boare, which was the Kings cognisance [coat of arms].
[1586 R. Holinshed Chronicles III. 746]