JACK-A-NAPES (R264,_b_), here = a tame ape or monkey. The origin of the term in this and its more usual sense (= an ape-like, pert, or ridiculous person) is obscure. Dr. Murray says that so far as yet found the word appears first as an opprobrious nickname of William de la Pole, the Duke of Suffolk who was murdered in 1450, whose badge was a clog and chain such as was attached to a tame ape. Thus in contemporary poems (_e.g._, _Pol. Poems_, _c._ 1499 [Rolls], II. 222) several noblemen are designated by their badges, Suffolk being named the "ape-clogge." We find _Jack-napes_ generic for an ape in Skelton (1522), and shortly afterwards the term was current in the present and more common sense. But the connection between _Jack Napes_ and an _ape_ (again to quote Dr. Murray) "is uncertain." JACK NOBLE, "Hence Forty Pence ... _Jack Noble_ is a-bed" (N98,_a_), a pun on the value of the coins (forty pence being half a noble) and the lady's preference. What _K. q. title_ means I cannot divine. Prof. Brandl suggests _King--Queen_, but confesses it obscure; _a bry_ appears to signify a breeze, awkward affair or predicament. JAKE, "a good _jake_ of fence" (M32,_a_), coat of defence; a sleeveless tunic or jacket formerly worn by foot-soldiers and others, usually of quilted leather. Sometimes = a coat of mail. JAVELS, "_javels_ as shall wrong them" (R192,_b_), a generic reproach--rascal, good-for-nothing. "How much more abhominable is that pieuish pride in a lewde vnthriftye, _iavell_."--More, _Treat. Pass._ (1534), Introd. Wks., 1272. JE, _Je nescey_ (N97,_b_), _i.e._ _Je ne sais [pas]_. JET (_passim_), formerly as hard a worked word as "commodity" or "cast"; it signified any device, contrivance, art, fashion, style, mode, manner, or custom. As _verb_ = to strut, walk with consequence, and so forth. JEWELS (M18,_a_), privities: see privity (19,_d_): New Guise's and Mankind's "business" seems to have been not over fastidious. JIS (_passim_), Jesus: cf. Gis. JOAN (_passim_), a generic name for an alewife, strumpet, and the like: see _Doctour Double Ale_ and next entry. JOHN, "_Come kiss me, John_" (N93,_c_). Chappell says that nothing remains of the words except "Jon come kisse me now, Jon come kisse me now; Jon come kisse me by and by, and make no more adow." The music is given in _Citharen Lessons_, 1609; _Airs and Sonnets_, _MS._, _T.C. Dublin_, etc. It is also mentioned in _Jacob and Esau_, in Heywood's _A Woman Kill'd with Kindness_ (1600); in _'Tis_ _merry when Gossips meet_ (1609); in a song in _Westminster_ _Drollery_ (1671 and 1674); in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ (1611); _The Scourge of_ _Folly_ (N.D.); Brathwayte's _Shepherd's Tales_ (1623); in Hy. Bold's _Songs and Poems_ (1685); and in Sir W. Davenant's _Love and Honour_. WILLIAM BYRD. [Illustration]