Is there a City Wife wou'd be a Lady?Bring her to me, Her easy Cuckold shall be dubb'd a Knight.

Fit for nothing but a Cuckold.

Nahum Tate has a farce, borrowed from Eastward Hoe and The Devil's an Ass, entitled Cuckold's Haven; or, An Alderman no Conjuror (1685).

sae hie; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee! Wha first shall rise to gang awa, A cuckold, coward loun is he!

Are you no more than Flavia Titiana's cuckold and Cornificia's plaything?"

I remember, when Jupiter made Amphitryo cuckold, and lay with his wife Alcmena, Coelum was in this taking for three days space, and stood still just like him at a nonplus. COM.

And when do you commence into the cuckold's orderthe preferment you speak of?

Wag, and thou beest a lover but three days, thou wilt be heartless, sleepless, witless, mad, wretched, miserable, and indeed a stark fool; and by that thou hast been married but three weeks, though thou shouldst wed a Cynthia rara avis, thou wouldst be a man monstrousa cuckold, a cuckold. BAR.

Wag, and thou beest a lover but three days, thou wilt be heartless, sleepless, witless, mad, wretched, miserable, and indeed a stark fool; and by that thou hast been married but three weeks, though thou shouldst wed a Cynthia rara avis, thou wouldst be a man monstrousa cuckold, a cuckold. BAR.

And why is a cuckold monstrous, knight? ILF.

As other women do, either to be maintained by you, or to make you a cuckold.

Do not make me mad, good gentlemen, do not make me mad: I could be made a cuckold with more patience, than endure this.

Proclaimes me Bastard: Cries Cuckold to my Father, brands the Harlot Euen heere betweene the chaste vnsmirched brow Of my true Mother.

Cuckold's Haven, or an Alderman no Conjuror; a Farce; acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Dorset-Garden 1685.

The plot of this play is taken from a Play of Marmion's, called the Fine Companion; and part from the Double Cuckold, a Novel, written by M. St. Evremond.

widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow.

A WOOER Stands candidate for cuckold, and if he miss of it, it is none of his fault, for his merit is sufficiently known.

His forehead, like a voluntary cuckold's, is by his horns made proof against a blush.

If she be not dishonest, he troubles and macerates himself without a cause; or put case which is the worst, he be a cuckold, it cannot be helped, the more he stirs in it, the more he aggravates his own misery.

Severus the emperor in his time made laws for the restraint of this vice; and as Dion Nicaeus relates in his life, tria millia maechorum, three thousand cuckold-makers, or naturae monetam adulterantes, as Philo calls them, false coiners, and clippers of nature's money, were summoned into the court at once.

The boy who brought the test mantle of fidelity to king Arthur's court drew a wand three times across a boar's head, and said, "There's never a cuckold who can carve that head of brawn."

The boy furthermore brought forth a drinking-horn, and said, "No cuckold can drink from that horn without spilling the liquor."

In this little book about the women who intermarried, not very enviably, with an unhuman race (a race predestinate to the red ending which I have chronicled elsewhere, in The Red Cuckold), it is of ten such moments that I treat.

And the upshot of it I have narrated elsewhere, in the book called and entitled The Red Cuckold, which composes the final portion of this history, and tells of the last spilling and of the extinction of this blood.

I never lampooned a man because he could not pay his debts, or for his being a cuckold.