> cf: 'Richard of York gave battle in vain'.

This reminds me of a couple of nonsense lines we used to use in 8th grade to remember the prefixes used in metrics (kilo, hecto, deka, deci, centi, milli):

- King Henry died drinking chocolate milk.
- Kids have dropped dead converting metrics.

There seems to be a running theme about death and dying here, but perhaps I shouldn't read too much into that.