Citations:scarbabe

English citations of scarbabe

alt form scare-babe

• 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.