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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Orsin

One of the leaders of the rabble that attacked Hudibras at a bear-baiting. He was “famous for wise conduct and success in war.” Joshua Gosling, who kept the bears ât “Paris Garden,” in Southwark, was the academy figure of this character.

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