Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.. Various
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Название: Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.

Автор: Various

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      Jack and Gill were measures. "Wherefore," says Grumio, "be the Jacks fair within and the Gills fair without," meaning the leathern jacks clean within, and the metal gills polished without.

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      His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey

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Jack and Gill were measures. "Wherefore," says Grumio, "be the Jacks fair within and the Gills fair without," meaning the leathern jacks clean within, and the metal gills polished without.

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His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was hanged.

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The old name for pancakes. Slap-jacks is their present name in America.

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The figure which struck the hour, as on the old clocks of St. Dunstan's, and of Carfax in Oxford.

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Bron-rhuddyn = "breast-burnt," or "breast-scorched."

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