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Updated: May 5, 2025
The Shakespeare of the Popular Revivals is a fantastic caricature. But the Shakespeare of the philosophical moralists is an Hob-goblin from whom one flees in dismay. Enjoying the plays themselves the interpreters forgotten a normally intelligent reader cannot fail to respond to a recognisable Personality there, a Personality with apathies and antipathies, with prejudices and predilections.
"A year, Archie?" "How can I know that, John?" I tried to meet his quick change of manner. "I think so. I'm very sure of it." "But you don't know?" "I can't know." "And if the very pretty woman on the island came to you in the night and said she had seen hob-goblin eyes in the dark, and was afraid how long, though you still love her, would you be faithful to Lucy?
"Tush! feare not the dodge; I'll rather put on my flashing red nose, and my flaming face, and come wrapped in a calfe's skin, and cry 'Ho! ho! ho!" Again, "I'll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap me in a rousing calf's-skin suit, and come like some hob-goblin, or some Devil ascended from the grisly pit of hell, and like a scarebabe make him take to his legs; I'll play the Devil, I warrant ye."
As I got older my terror was less, but my melancholy greater, until I would be only half conscious of what I was allowing myself to do. I seemed to have engendered within myself a hob-goblin. Once it was only last winter I saw a nasty word written on a fence, and it sent a shudder through me, for I knew it would follow me and make me think of other things like it.
It was the nervous reaction caused by your fright, and the knowledge that you had done wrong, that made you jump over the handlebars. That's the scientific explanation." "You you did it!" stammered Andy, getting to his feet. He wasn't hurt much, Tom thought. "Have it your own way," resumed our hero. "Did you think it was a hob-goblin in a chariot of fire after you, Andy?" "Huh!
Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery, Skims milk, and sometimes labours in the quern, And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn; And sometimes makes the drink to bear no harm, Misleads night wanderers, laughing at their harm? Those that Hob-Goblin call you, and sweet Puck; You do their work, and they shall have good luck."
One of them was Row-ena Quarrelena Fightena Scrapena; the other," Jerry paused impressively, "was our precious hob-goblin, Miss Cairns." "Really!" came in surprised exclamation from Vera. "Hmm! What a congenial pair!" was Helen Trent's placid reception of the information. "Like walks with like." Leila's tones vibrated with satirical truth. "Knaves fall out, but to fall in again."
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