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English Surnames

Note 60 — Chapter I · PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.

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Jack and Jill seem ever to have been associated.

Will squabbled in a tavern very sore,

Because one brought a gill of wine no more;

Fill me a quart, quoth he, I’m called Will,

The proverbe is, each Jack shall have his Gill.

Satyricall Epigrams, 1619.

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