Note to As You Like It, 3.3.51: "horns are odious"


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Act 3, Scene 3, line 51.
horns are odious: —Horns are odious because they grow on the foreheads of cuckolds, to their great shame. This bit of folklore is the occasion for many jokes in the play, all of them emphasizing the foolishness of the whole idea and its associated obsessions.