Poem by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Da Vinci

It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's
Not to put his trust in princes.
Pleading was of no avail;
They had to pay up on the nail.

1. Wren
2. James Jeans
3. Acland-Hood
4. Alexander
5. Sir Walter Scott

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