Shakespeare's Myths
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1606-1608, 1608), xix.3-10:
Bawd: Fie, fie upon her, she’s able to freeze the god Priapus, and undo the whole of generation. We must either get her ravished or be rid of her. When she should do for clients her fitment, and do me the kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks, her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her knees, that she would make a puritan of the devil if he should cheapen a kiss of her.
How to cite
Frédéric Delord. "Priapus." 2009. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/257/priapus
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