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Bombastes Furio’so.
Bon Gaultier Ball
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CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Bombas’tus.
The family name of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493–1541). He is said to have kept a small devil prisoner in the pommel of his sword.
1
“Bombastus kept a devil’s bird
Shut in the pommel of his sword,
That taught him all the cunning pranks
Of past and future mountebanks.”
S. Butler: Hudibras,
part ii. 3.
Bombastes Furio’so.
Bon Gaultier Ball
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