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Act IV: French Scene 4

leather skin, and hornes to weare: The leather skin and horns of the deer were prized trophies of the hunt. When a deer is killed, the horn call termed the Mort or Death is blown at the death of the deer. An effective hunter (ladies man) brings about the mort or death of a deer (or the sexual 'dying' that is caused by orgasm). A hunter's skin (scrotum) might be skilled with leather (female pudendum) but he is nevertheless a "Leather-head" (thick-skulled, unintelligent) if he marries for a married man cannot escape the cuckold's hornes.

take thou no scorne to weare the horne: A man weares the horne (a horn-like appendage to be worn) as a crest (device originally worn by a knight on his helmet), so a man should not take scorne (be indignant) because it is no scorne (shame) to weare the horne. A man would never have been born if his father and his father's father did not have such a crest (comb of a cock) and had not worn the horne (experienced phallic erection), and would have never worn the horn (gotten married and doomed themselves to cuckoldry). Therefore a man should not allow himself to be made a scorne (impotent) because he wears the horne.

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