[192] “A cuckold being called from the cuckoo, the note of that bird was supposed to prognosticate that destiny.”—Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 212.
[193] Engel’s “Musical Myths and Facts,” 1876, vol. i. p. 9.
[194] See Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-Lore,” 1863, p. 99; “English Folk-Lore,” 1879, pp. 55-62.
[195] See Mary Howitt’s “Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons,” p. 155; Knight’s “Pictorial Shakespeare,” vol. i. pp. 225, 226.
[196] Chambers’s “Book of Days,” vol. i. p. 531.
[197] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 201.
[198] “Asinaria,” v. 1.
[199] Nares, in his “Glossary” (vol. i. p. 212), says: “Cuckold, perhaps, quasi cuckoo’d, i. e., one served; i. e., forced to bring up a brood that is not his own.”
[200] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. ix. p. 294.
[201] “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” pp. 190, 191.