ironwork

[Jonathon Green]

Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> For the Harvard Commencement, I prefer (or perhaps simply like?)
> "ironwork" = "copulation".
It is, as is so often the case in such debatable texts, a matter of
contradictory readings. As I said, mine was but a thought. However I
still think - perhaps foolishly - that I shall resist including ironwork
= copulation in my own database.

JG

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