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Thread #16837   Message #160411
Posted By: Bruce O.
09-Jan-00 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hal n Toe? / Hal an Tow
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hal n Toe
Shakespeare could have gotten it for just about anywhere, or he could have written it. Wearing of horns is a very common old symbolism for a cuckold, and there are many pieces that refer to it as well as woodcuts on broadside ballads showing a man with horns. Search on 'horn' and 'cuckold' in the broadside ballad index on my website for some of these.