| Five penny Morris. None of the references make it clear, but this seems to be (a form of) Three Men's Morris. Gomme I 122 and the OED [under Morrell] quote: W. Hawkins; Apollo Shroving (a play of 1627), act III, scene iv, pp. 48-49.
"..., Ovid hath honour'd my exercises. He describes in verse our boyes play.
Twise three stones, set in a crossed square where he wins the game
That can set his three along in a row,
And that is fippeny morrell I trow."
Most of the references (and myself) are perplexed by the reference to five, though the fact that one has at most five moves in Tic tac toe might have something to do with it?? Since Three Men's Morris is less well known, some writers have assumed Five penny Morris was Nine Men's Morris and others have called all such games by the same name. A few lines later, Hawkins has: "I challenge him at all games from blowpoint upward to football, and so on to mumchance, and ticketacke. ... rather than sit out, I will give Apollo three of the nine at Ticketacke, ..."
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