FORWARDED FROM JAMES NOHRNBERG
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>Believe it or not, I write this to all the List members deliberately,
>with all my two inwits about me, on my knees, in profound humility
>and an agony of need, in a word, with a question. Can anybody with
>Concordance-like capabilities give me a quick fix on occurrences of
>the word "male" in The FQ?
>
>Harry
The Analogy was once subtitled, "The Concordance of The FQ."
"Male" occurs in FQ in only two contexts:
(1) in quasi-literal connection with the female gender,
"creatures, partly male / And partly femall" I.i.21, self-regenerating,
self-sewing generations of/on the Nile,
"Both male and female, both under one name" IV.x.41, icon of Venus;
-- compare Colin Clout 802, " Both male and female through commixture
joynd," couples as Venus,
and compare also FQ II..ix.22 "Th' other immortall, perfect, masculine,"
element of Alma,
and II.xi.4, "So he surpassed his sex masculine," Ollyphant (vs. Argante);
-- see also kinds
(2) and in regard to aborted patrilineal dynastics (sewing of male seed to
make males):
"had no issue male him to succeed" II.x.27, King Leyre
"wanting yssew male" II.x.61, Roman Emperor Constantine
--Jim Nohrnberg
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