Ribald Classic: The Eight Horned Heads
October, 1970
To the Barge at Billingsgate, awaiting when the tide would turn for Gravesend, came passengers of all sorts. When the bargemen put out from the stairs and, being under sail and going smugly down, everyone began to chat of one thing and another, all of mirth, some of knavery. There was a tinker of Turvey in the barge, who soon began a merry tale. When he had done, a cobbler followed, making them all laugh with another that ended, "So he was made a cuckold, and with a heavy head was the poor...
