Amaimon THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2. 261;
“(Amamon,”
Cambridge
), 1 HENRY IV., ii. 4.
327. The name of a demon.
“Randle Holme, in his Academy of Armory and Blazon, B. ii.
ch. 1, informs us that ‘Amaymon is the
chief whose dominion is on the north part of the infernal gulph’”
(STEEVENS)
.
“Amaimon, King of
the East, was one of the principal devils who might be
bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth hour
till evening. See Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, B. xv.
ch. 3 [p. 393, ed. 1584]”
(DOUCE)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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