...Patricia Simons The ubiquity and charm of pissing putti in early modern imagery has inured us to their valence, for an important proof of masculinity in the European tradition is to be able to emit fluids from the penis, usually with some force, and significantly while standing erect. In early...

..., “the bravest show” by the “Pissing-­Conduit,” the little Conduit by the Stocks market off Cheapside (3.2.181 – 82). The “two brave drums and a standard bearer” in this procession (3.2.183) parody the “warlike music” and “troop of labourers” of Middleton’s earlier entertain- ment and serve here...

... that “[t]here's not a Pissing-post but weares a Bill, / That doth Proclaime his admirable skill.” 56 The concept of the mountebank bill in fact encompass two separate kinds of documents: those posted to notify potential audiences of the mountebank's presence and performance in town, and the instructive...

... who lacks natural reverence toward God. “Mankynde, vbi es?” (771). “Hic hyc, hic hic, hic hic, hic hic!” shouts New Guise (775). The very capacity of language to denote is being called into question here. Titivillus has turned Mankind’s prayers to piss and shit; here New Guise’s words answers...

... overthrown. The iconoclast responds to the object’s power with open force or parodic inversion: in Yaxley, Gunton reports, sol- diers “break open the Church doors, piss in the Font, and then baptize a horse and mare, using the solemn words of Baptism, and signing them with the sign of the cross...

... of the stoue, and licking his head and eyes all ouer with your tongue, put him into his Pen, and then taking a good handfull of bread, small cut, put it into his trough, and then pissing into the trough, also giue it him to eate, so as he may take his bread out of the warme...