“My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Gaveston, Act I, scene i, lines 57–58
Edward II (c. 1592)
“Down the mountain walls
From where pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.”
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