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Brewer's: Giles Overreach
(Sir). A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Massinger. The “Academy figure” of this character was Sir Giles Mompesson, a notorious usurer, banished the kingdom for his misdeeds.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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