Citations:cuckoldly
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English citations of cuckoldly
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 47, column 1:
- Fal. Hang him (poore cuckoldly knaue) I know him not: yet I wrong him to call him poore: they say the ielous wittolly-kaue hath masses of money, for the which his wife seemes to me well-fauourd: I will vse her as the key of the cockoldly-rogues coffer, & ther's my haruest-home.
- 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act III, signature H, verso:
- and let me alone for that old Cuckoldly knaue your father, Ile vse him in his kinde, I warrant yee.