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Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore.
Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore.
Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- William B. Rhodes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Bombastes Furioso. Act i. Sc. 4.
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