[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/12/2014 18:30, ME Michaud wrote:
> I can never see him but I am heartburned an hour after.
> -Much Ado
>
> Though he had twinned with me
> -Othello
>
> Was cuckold a verb before Shakespeare used it that way?

Warner used it in that way of a paramour in 1589 in "Albions England"  
Shakespeare used it in the same sense in 1602 in "Marry Wives of 
Windsor" while for a wife Othello in 1616 is the first recorded instance 
according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Roger