I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.

Thomas Heywood (1570-1641): Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,

And proves, by thumping on your back,

His sense of your great merit,

Is such a friend that one had need

Be very much his friend indeed

To pardon or to bear it.

William Cowper (1731-1800): On Friendship.

Poor Tom's a-cold.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4.