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Quote #49321

My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.

Christopher Marlowe

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The speaker imagines his followers as satyrs—mythic half-goat revelers associated with Dionysian excess—spilling onto cultivated “lawns” and turning orderly space into a scene of rustic, eroticized festivity. “Goat feet” stresses animality and instinct, while “dance the antic hay” evokes a wild, comic dance (an “antic” caper) that mocks decorum. The lines suggest a fantasy of power expressed not through civic order but through carnivalesque disruption: the speaker’s “men” will embody untamed appetite and theatrical spectacle. In Marlowe’s idiom, classical imagery becomes a vehicle for transgression, showing how desire and domination can be staged as pastoral play that nonetheless threatens social boundaries.

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