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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Medoro

(in Orlando Furioso). A Moorish youth of extraordinary beauty; a friend of Dardinello, King of Zumara. After Dardinello was slain, Medoro is wounded by some unknown spear. Angelica dresses his wounds, falls in love with him, marries him and they retire to India, where he becomes King of Cathay in right of his wife.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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