Mountebank, subst. a quack: “disguised cheaters, prating --s, and many such-like liberties of sin,” Err. I, 2, 101. “a m., a thread-bare juggler and a fortune-teller,” V, 238. “I bought an unction of a m.” Hml. IV, 7, 142. “by spells and medicines bought of --s,” Oth. I, 3, 61.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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