Obidicut KING LEAR, iv. 1. 60. A variation of the name of the fiend called
Hoberdicut and Haberdicut in Harsnet's Declaration of egregious Popish
Impostures, 1603, pp. 119, 181; from which work Shakespeare seems to have borrowed
the names of several of the fiends in King Lear.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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