Versos English Anonymous The Peasant's Simile for Cuckoldom

English poem

The Peasant's Simile for Cuckoldom

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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.