The prince of dumbness, and one of the five fiends that possessed “poor Tom.” (Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 1.)
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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.