"A wily wench there was (as I have read) Who us’d to capricorn her husband’s head, Which he suspecting, lay in private…"

"Gone already! Inch-thick, knee-deep, o’er head and ears a fork’d one! Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I Pl…"

"The Cuckold is the last that knowes of it."

"She Acts the jealous, and at Will she cries; For Womens Tears are but the sweat of Eyes. Poor Cuckold-Fool, thou thin…"

"But suffer not thy Wife abroad to roam, If she loves Singing, let her Sing at home; Not strut in Streets, with Amazon…"

"Now, when Shah Zaman saw this conduct of his sister-in-law he said in himself, “By Allah, my calamity is lighter than…"

"Who hath no wyf, he is no cokewold."

"This Carpenter had wedded newe a wyf Which that he lovede more than his lyf; Of eightetene yeer she was of age. Ialou…"

"Now ther ye seye, that I am foul and old, Than drede you noght to been a cokewold; For filthe and elde, al-so moot I …"

"By the haven of safety, cried out Rondibilis, what is this you ask of me? If you shall be a cuckold? My noble friend,…"