Note habber de hoy — KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER, PERFORMED IN A MORRICE FROM LONDON TO NORWICH.
Reading edition
P. 21, l. 30, habber de hoy.]—“A Hober-de-hoy, half a man and half a boy.” Ray’s Proverbs, p. 57, ed. 1768.—The word is variously written: see Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. in v. Hobbledehoy.