My new word for the week is lechery. I came across this word in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3:
Porter: Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF: What three things does drink especially provoke?Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
The Porter's statements are as true in 2012 as they were in 1606. The words of the English language's most famous Bard live on today.
