Here's a precursor to comedian
Steve Martin's arrow-through-the-head gag, from
Bachelor Ballads and Other Lazy Lyrics by Harry A. Spurr and illustrated by J. Hassall (1899). However,
we understand that the gag technically traces back to the play
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607), with this stage direction: "Enter Rafe, with a forked arrow through his head."