Note to King Lear, 4.6.119: "Whose face between her forks"


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Act 4, Scene 6, line 119
Whose face between her forks: A "fork" was the name of a type of starched headpiece worn by aristocratic ladies. However, mad King Lear seems to have in mind the area between a lady's legs, her "forks."

Rogier van der Weyden, c.1445
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