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    15 hours ago

    Two instances of the use of “cock” in the works of William Shakespeare are thought to be double entendres for the phallic sense, one being in the 1594 play The Taming of the Shrew, where Petruchio describes his crest as “a combless cock”, and another in the 1599 play, Henry VI, Part 2, where a character named “Pistol” declares, “Pistol’s cock is up”.