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The Anglo-Saxon hinc is a servant or page; or perhaps henges-man, a horse-man; henges or hengst, a horse.
“I do but beg a little changeling boy
To be my benchman.”
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii. 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.
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