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Hawkubites
(3 syl.). Street bullies in the reign of Queen Anne. It was
their delight to molest and ill-treat the old watchmen, women,
children, and feeble old men who chanced to be in the streets after
sunset. The succession of these London pests after the Restoration was
in the following order: The Muns, the Tityré Tus, the Hectors, the
Scourers, the Nickers, then the Hawkubites (1711-1714), and then the
Mohocks—most dreaded of all. (Hawkubite is the name of an Indian
tribe of savages.)
From Mohock and from Hawkubite,
Good Lord deliver me,
Who wander through the streets at nigh
Committing cruelty.
They slash our sons with bloody knives,
And on our daughters fall;
And, if they murder not our wives,
We have good luck withal.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Hawkubites from Infoplease:
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