Against the Greeks.
Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1 (1592).
Hopeful, a companion of Christian after the death of Faithful at Vanity Fair.—Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, i, (1678).
Hope-on-High Bomby, a puritanical character, drawn by Beaumont and Fletcher.
“Well,” said Wildrake, “I think I can make a Hope-on-High Bomby as well as thou canst.”—Sir W. Scott, Woodstock, vii.
Hopkins (Matthew), of Manningtree, Essex, the witch-finder. In one year he caused sixty persons to be hanged as reputed witches.
Between three and four thousand persons suffered death for witchcraft between 1643 and 1661.—Dr. Z. Grey.
Hopkins (Nicholas), a Chartreux friar, who prophesied “that neither the king [Henry VIII.] nor his heirs should prosper, but that the duke of Buckingham should govern England.”
1st Gent. That devil-monk, Hopkins, hath made this mischief.
2nd Gent. That was he that fed him with his prophecies.