Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... besides references to Pasiphae's " currishe nature " 76 and to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry , the " horned harnesse " which Pasiphae gave her husband King Minos , an example of conventional irony expressed in terms of animals ...
... besides references to Pasiphae's " currishe nature " 76 and to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry , the " horned harnesse " which Pasiphae gave her husband King Minos , an example of conventional irony expressed in terms of animals ...
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References are made also to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry . Before the Marprelate controversy there was a general tendency to represent any object of satire as an ape and to speak of the satire itself as “ whipping the ape ...
References are made also to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry . Before the Marprelate controversy there was a general tendency to represent any object of satire as an ape and to speak of the satire itself as “ whipping the ape ...
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All footnote references to the Old Testament are to the Authorized Version ; references to the New Testament are to the Greek text : Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort ( eds . ) , The New Testament in the Original Greek .
All footnote references to the Old Testament are to the Authorized Version ; references to the New Testament are to the Greek text : Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort ( eds . ) , The New Testament in the Original Greek .
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