Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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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.

Bombastes Furioso. Act i. Sc. 4.

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Let none but he these arms displace,