12. (old).—A male sweetheart; cf. Gill.

c. 1500. Babees Book, [E. E. T. S.], 22. And aryse up soft and

stylle, And iangylle nether Iak ne Iylle.

1592. Shakspeare, Midsummer Nights Dream, iii. 2. Jack shall have

Jill.

1620. Percy, Folio MSS., p. 104. Yet there is neuer a Iacke for

Gill.