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"[The] gates of monarchs Are arch'd so high that Giants may jet through And keep their impious Turbants on, without Good morrow to the Sun."

January 1, 1970

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Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III, iii, 6 — "The idea of a Giant was, among the readers of romances, who were almost all the readers of those times, always confounded with that of a Saracen." (Samuel Johnson, ed. ', Vol. 8 (1765), p. 319, note)

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Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III, iii, 6 — "The idea of a Giant was, among the readers of romances, who were almost all the readers of those times, always confounded with that of a Saracen." (Samuel Johnson, ed. ', Vol. 8 (1765), p. 319, note)