"Of Hobin, Hobbin, I find no early record.  It emerges in the sixteenth century, and exists in the present surname Hobin, Hobbin, Hobbins."
    (b) Hobbin, ah Hobbin!  I curse the stounde.
                   1579 SPENSER, Shepheards Calender, Sept. 1579 Id.
(Transactions of the American Philological Association, v.24, 1893)