English poem
The Peasant's Simile for Cuckoldom
by Anonymous
Those folks—quoth Hodge—men cuckolds call, Three beasts will represent them all. See, yonder, in that plat of grass, My shaggy Goat, my Kam, my Ass: Old greybeard bears behind his horns, And the reproach he sees not scorns; Giddy in vain from scandal flies, His horns hang ever in his eyes; But Jack the greatest wretch appears, Who takes for horns his lopping ears.