Brewer's: Orsin

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

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