Sixteen-string JackJohn Rann, a highwayman, noted for his foppery. He wore sixteen tags, eight at each knee. (Hanged in 1774.) “Dr. Johnson said that Gray's poetry towered above the ordinary run
of verse as Sixteen-string Jack above the ordinary foot-pad.” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Sixteen-string Jack from Infoplease:
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