Jewels (M[18],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" (N[93],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.
John-Hold-my-Staff (R[188],a), a parasite, lickspittle. "And here it is the fortune of a man to be married to a woman of so peevish and domineering a temper that she will wear the breeches and the cap too: so that the poor fop at home is like John-Hold-my-Staff; she must rule, govern, insult, brawl," etc.—Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony.
John Irische (WH[304],d), the allusion is lost.
John Shole (WH[304],d), see previous entry.