Orsin
. One of the leaders of the rabble that attacked Hudibras at a bearbaiting. He was “famous for wise conduct and success in war.” Joshua Gosling, who kept the bears at “Paris Garden,” in Southwark, was the academy figure of this character.
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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.