...primal male nausea at the thought of the female body, the nausea most fully articulated in King Lear: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is...sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothecary, Sweeten my imagination. (IV. vi....

...goddesses from the waist up), and centaurs. The sexual symbolism of the centaur persists in Shakespeare: 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, consumption:...

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...free-for-all in Act IV, anxiously reveals a similar figure as the repressed origin of all of his troubles: "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, / Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah!" (IV.vi. 124-29). n This extremely troubled, not to mention troubling, displacement...

...origins and encouragement of satyriasis. To hear of pleasure's name; The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. (King Leni- IV.vi. 124-30) an I-based eye which, for our purposes, stares back at what it sees. It...

...minces 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...the girdle do the gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption....

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