One of you may be Baptisto's son, for anything I know to the contrary; but the other is no less a personage than the only son of the late King of Barataria. ... And I trust - I trust it was that one who slapped me on the shoulder and called me his man! (W. S. Gilbert)

One of you may be Baptisto's son, for anything I know to the contrary; but the other is no less a personage than the only son of the late King of Barataria. ... And I trust - I trust it was that one who slapped me on the shoulder and called me his man!

W. S. Gilbert

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