Quote#Wisdom
Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore
Quote byWilliam Barnes Rhodes · 1772–1826
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore.
— William Barnes Rhodes
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