Note 33 — Chapter I · PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.

Thus Thomas Hale, a Puritan, writing in 1660 against May Games, has some verses in which the Maypole is represented as saying—

I have a mighty retinue,

The scum of all the raskall crew

Of fidlers, pedlers, jayle scaped slaves,

Of tinkers, turncoats, tospot knaves,

Of theeves and scape-thrifts many a one,

With bouncing Besse and jolly Jone.