Sunday, August 15, 2010

C's, U's, T's, P's of a Lady

In Twelfth Night, some editors play P's to piece, and link the C's, U's, T's to cut, saying that cut is vagina. A more alive and consistent way is to follow the author's hints to play them all by sound. It shows a lady's vagina talent, not just a sex organ.


TOBY:
Oh peace, and the spirit of humors intimate reading aloud to him.[1]


MALVOLIO:
By my life this is my Lady's hand:[2]
these be her very C's, her U's, and her T's,[3]
and thus makes she her great P's.[4]
It is in contempt of question her hand.


[1] reading aloud:: the way to solve this riddle.
[1] peace:: a hint to treat P's by sound.
[1] humors:: animal's body fluid or juice, to hint U's.
[2] Lady's hand:: skill, art of a lady; all four sound plays are about vagina.
[3] C's:: seize, penis by vagina.
[3] U's:: juice.
[3] T's:: tits, sharp or sudden pull movements, jerks (OED 1581).
[4] P's:: piece, a part of a whole, a sex organ here by playing P's to piss, a piss piece.



The original print of U's is V's, which can play to vis, meaning force. A seize of force with jerking movement sounds great, but seize and tits implicitly include force, and are painful without juice, so I take the humor as a hint and use U's. Besides, the author made C U T in sequence to alert us the "cut" is, to die men by the lady's very art.


Is this over reading? Not if we compare this double-play of sound and meaning with "A fustian riddle."


(August 16, 2010 by J. F.)
(Updated August 17, 2010)


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