...ccs virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name , — The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give...

...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name, — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...all above ; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 1 20 125 1 14. Man] Than were Cap. 115. sheets.] sheets, were unto me. Ktly. 1 1 6. lack'] want Qt....

...virtue, — ] That affects the coy timidity of virtue. .The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends' ; there 's hell, there 's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption...

...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends' ; there 's hell, there 's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption...

...monstrous, hellish, and vile, disgust-evoking places. Recall Lear's image: Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah! pah! But I suspect that the reason vaginas are capable of evoking disgust depends on something more than...

...124 Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 126 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothe- BO cary, sweeten my imagination! There's money for thee. GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand....

...suggest was written after Shakespeare learned he had contracted syphilis, in which Lear says of women: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit — burning, scalding, Stench,...

...sexuality through the image of a female centaur conceived in terms strongly reminiscent of Scylla: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit — burning scalding, / Stench,...

...and the Figures of Speech by Craig Kallendorf "He apprehends a world of figures here." (IHenI¥lm209) "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's." (KL IV.vi. 123-26) Madeleine Doran has observed that "English Renaissance drama is rhetorical...

...however, extends beyond a general misogyny, given its quintessential Shakespearean expression in Lear's "But to the girdle do the gods inherit / Beneath is...hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit" (4.6.126-28)18 — in which the female body, with its rapacious desires, figures the antithesis of...