Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Ferdinand

Son of the King of Naples, and suitor of Miranda, daughter of Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan. (Shakespeare Tempest.)

In Love's Labour's Lost, the same name is given to the King of Navarre.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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