Geffrey

English

Proper noun

Geffrey

A male given name, a medieval spelling of Geoffrey, rarely used today.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
  : Scene I:
  That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,
  
  And this his son; England was Geffrey's right,
  
  And this is Geffrey's.

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