Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Chapter 6

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“Take thou no scorn To wear the horn, the lusty horn; It was a crest ere thou wast born.”

I question whether there exists a parallel instance of a phrase, that like this of “horns” is universal in all languages, and yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin.

“Twelfth Night.”