“One of you may be Baptisto's son, for anything I know to the contrary; but the other is no less a personage than the only son
of the late King of Barataria. … And I trust — I trust it was that one who slapped me on the shoulder and called me his man!”

The Gondoliers (1889)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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