"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…"

"Oh that all the World were mad, Then should we have fine Dancing, Hobby horses would be had, And brave Girles keepe a…"

"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,…"