satyr-writing

Updated: June 4, 2025

Nor did the satyr-writing poet lie in proof hereof, when he affirmed that a woman, burning with extreme affection, takes sometimes pleasure to steal from her sweetheart. And what, I pray you? A glove, a point, or some such trifling toy of no importance, to make him keep a gentle kind of stirring in the research and quest thereof.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3