Citations:scarbabe
English citations of scarbabe
alt form scare-babe
edit- 1594 July 2, Epitaph of R. Scarlet, the Sexton, Cathedral of Peterborough:
- Second to none for strength and sturdye limbe, A scarbabe mighty voice & visage grim.
- 1623, Thomas Hawkins, Wily Beguiled:
- Now when he's at Venus' altar at his orisons, I'll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap me in a rowsing calf-skin suit, and come like some hobgoblin, or some devil ascended from the grisly pit of hell; and like a scarbabe make him take his legs: I'll play the devil, I warrent ye.