"Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face."
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Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let none but he these arms displace, Who dares Orlando's fury face", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter lxvi; Ray, Proverbs; Thomas, English Prose Romance, page 85.
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William Barnes Rhodes
William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826) was a dramatist and banker. In 1810, he wrote a burlesque, Bombastes Furioso, which achieved great popularity.
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