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AHobbididance, orHoberdidance, was a malevolentsprite mentioned in the traditional Englishmorris dance and inWilliam Shakespeare's theatrical playKing Lear (c. 1606). It was borrowed fromSamuel Harsnett'sDeclaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603). It helped scholars to set the earliest composition date for the play.[1]
Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless thee, good man’s son, from the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; and Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing; who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!
— King Lear, Act IV, Scene I
1.https://shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu/king_lear/King_Lear_Note_3_4_144.html2. "Hobbididance".Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
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