A fiend mentioned by Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2, and in Henry V., ii. 1.
“Amaimon sounds well, Lucifer well, Barbason well; yet they are … the names of flends.”—Merry Wives.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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