Citations:cuckold

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English citations of cuckold

  • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare:
    Now, sir, who’s a cuckold now?
    Merry Wives of Windsor: V, v
    I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!
    Othello: IV, i
  • 1966, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor:
    Only the wittol knows he’s no cuckold.
  • 2009, Michelle O'Callaghan, Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist, page 67:
    The other two plots involve two households linked in terms of character (Whorehound) and thematically: that of the Allwits, in which Master Allwit is the willing cuckold of Whorehound, who keeps Mistress Allwit in a continual state of pregnancy[.]
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