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Sawney was tall and of noble race And lov'd me better than any eane But now he ligs by another lass And Sawney will ne'er be my true love agen. Ravenscroft, in The London Cuckolds , Act iii, introduces a link-boy singing this verse as he passes down the street. p. 394 There's nothing lasting but the Puppets Show.
The goddess, whom you shall not find propitious nor favourable unto you, is Minerva, a most redoubtable and dreadful virgin, a powerful and fulminating goddess, an enemy to cuckolds and effeminate youngsters, to cuckold-makers and adulterers. The god is Jupiter, a terrible and thunder-striking god from heaven.
His doublet was torn and his shoulder bleeding, whilst his empty scabbard hung like a lambent tail behind him. "We have brought him, captain," one of the men announced. "Aye, you crop-eared, psalm-whining cuckolds, you've brought me, d n you," growled Sir Crispin, whose eyes rolled fiercely.
Be it nevertheless understood, the author has no other desire than to be a good Touranian, and joyfully to chronicle the merry doings of the famous people of this sweet and productive land, more fertile in cuckolds, dandies and witty wags than any other, and which has furnished a good share of men of renown in France, as witness the departed Courier of piquant memory; Verville, author of Moyen de Parvenir, and others equally well known, among whom we will specially mention the Sieur Descartes, because he was a melancholy genius, and devoted himself more to brown studies than to drinks and dainties, a man of whom all the cooks and confectioners of Tours have a wise horror, whom they despise, and will not hear spoken of, and say, "Where does he live?" if his name is mentioned.
So in that lucky Play of the London Cuckolds, not to recite Particulars. And in that good Comedy of Sir Courtly Nice, the Taylor to the young Lady in the fam'd Sir Fopling Dorimont and Bellinda, see the very Words in Valentinian, see the Scene between the Court Bawds.
But as it is requisite justice should be done, and that in a dramatic piece virtue ought to be rewarded and vice punished, it is at last found that the captain takes his page's place, and lies with his faithless mistress, cuckolds his treacherous friend, thrusts his sword through his body, recovers his casket, and marries his page.
Some Comfort, I shall be Father to a Viscount, and for the rest Patience All Nations Cuckolds breed, but I deny They had such need of Cuckolding as I. Enter Antonio, and Clara to Jacinta. Jac. Madam, the rarest sport Ha, ha, ha. Ant. You need not tell us, we have been witness to all.
"However, poor Stanis had begged me so urgently to do him that service; he was so very much in love with Madame de Fréjus, and among the characters in the play there was a brute of a husband who was terribly jealous and suspicious; one of those Othellos who have always a flea in their ear, and come back unexpectedly from shooting or the club, who pick up pieces of torn paper, listen at doors, smell out meetings with the nose of a detective, and seem to have been sent into the world only to be cuckolds, but who know better than most how to lay a snare, and to play a nasty trick that when I went to Venice, I consented to let him have my room.
Another common topic for false wit, and cool raillery, is matrimony. Every man and his wife hate each other cordially, whatever they may pretend, in public, to the contrary. The husband certainly wishes his wife at the devil, and the wife certainly cuckolds her husband.
"Have patience, if you please," pursued the other: "I know not how that simpleton of a bridegroom happened to be at the custom-house when my portmanteau was examined at Calais: but these silly cuckolds thrust in their noses everywhere. As soon as ever he saw your coat, he fell in love with it. I immediately perceived he was a fool; for he fell down upon his knees, beseeching me to sell it him.
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