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“The pride of swains” in Thomson’s Autumn; a poetical representation of Boaz, while the “lovely young Lavinʹia” is Ruth.
Palemon, in love with the captain’s daughter, in Falconer’s Shipwreck.
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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.
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