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Sacripant
Sacripant,in Orlando innamorato and Orlando furioso , the king of Circassia and a lover of Angelica . He catches Rinaldo 's horse Bayard , and rides away on it, and Rinaldo calls him a horse-thief;
in Tassoni's Seccia rapita (The Rape of the Bucket), a hectoring braggart;
Sacrapant, a magician in Peele's The Old Wives Tale . In modern French sacripant is a rascal or blackguard.
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