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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Ricardo

in the opera of I Puritani, is Sir Richard Forth, a Puritan, commander of Plymouth fortress. Lord Walton promised to give him his daughter Elvira in marriage, but Elvira had engaged her affections to Lord Arthur Talbot, a Cavalier, to whom ultimately she was married.

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