Jack-boy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of jack boy. alt-of, alternative

    "Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;"

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"Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;"

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