subs. (old).—A cuckold [It. = goat; but with Drayton = cuckoo].

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  1604.  MARSTON and WEBSTER, The Malcontent, i. 3 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), IV. 20]. Malevole. Duke, thou art a BECCO, a cornuto. Pietro. How? Malevole. Thou art a cuckold.

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  1624.  MASSINGER, The Bondman, ii. 3.

                    They’ll all make
Sufficient BECCOS, and with their brow-antlers
Bear up the cap of maintenance.

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  d. 1631.  DRAYTON, The Owl.

        Th’ Italians call him BECCO (of a nod)
With all the reverence that belongs a god.

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