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E. Cobham Brewer
18101897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Bombastus.
The family name of Aureolus Paracelsus (14931541). He is said to have kept a small devil prisoner in the pommel of his sword.
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Bombastus kept a devils bird
Shut in the pommel of his sword,
That taught him all the cunning pranks
Of past and future mountebanks.
S. Butler: Hudibras,
part ii. 3.
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