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Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.
Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.
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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