Two Tales of Two Cities

Or I know where the bodies are buried

Leicester

Richard III who died in Bosworth Field was found a few years ago

Richard fighting for his life at Bosworth

underneath carpark in Leicester. Imagine a scene from a putative Monty Python episode, with The Knight played by Tony Robinson and Henry Tudor by John Cleese.

Bedraggled and breathless, blood-soaked and bruised, Knight approaches Henry Tudor.

Knight: Your highneth, your highneth (he lisps), I have slain Richard.

Henry Tudor: Grunts. Good for you…

Knight: What am I to do wiz ze body?

King: Bury him in that carpark.

London

The body of the poet Coleridge, who wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

and died in 1834 was recently discovered in what is now a wine cellar in north London. He is best known for the lines:

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink

Water, water, every where

Nor any drop to drink

This is doubly ironic for the body of someone who was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and who decried the presence of water around him, to be discovered in a wine cellar.

Totally unrelated to anything above, there is a very interesting spoonerism of The Tale of Two Cities: The Sale of Two Titties.