Brewer's: Frateretto

A fiend mentioned by Edgar in the tragedy of King Lear.

“Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware of the foul fiend.” —Act iii. 6.

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