What is "sonnies"

Usage examples of "sonnies".

But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well lose your .

My sonnies, all true stories have a coarse touch or a bad moral, depend upon’t.

Why, sonnies, a man’s not himself till he is fortified wi’ a bit and a drop?

My sonnies, I’ve got the very white trousers that I wore, at home in box now, Ha’n’t I, Ann?