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Son of the King of Naples, and suitor of Miranda, daughter of Prosʹpero, the banished Duke of Milan. (Shakespeare: Tempest.)
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the same name is given to the King of Navarre.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.