Jun
21
“I have the head now of myself and am man enough for a woman; marriage is but a chopping and changing, where a maiden loses one head and has a worse i’ th’ place.”
Mary Frith (aka Moll), from The Roaring Girl, by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (via wwnorton)
Faaaaaaaaaavorite play. It’s got a hot mess of a b-plot, but Moll Frith is a 16th-Century cross-dressing sword-fighting badass motherfucking woman. And she makes some good dick jokes too.
