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(E2, 1.6-11) If references to "The Passionate Shepherd" and Hero and Leander identify Gaveston with the author, the fantasy of the king cross-dressed as a girl, like the "nun" (44) for whom Leander swam the Hellespont, constitutes an unprecedented sexual coming-out for Marlowe, in winch the Shepherd's ambiguous Love and androgynous Hero are both discovered to have been "buskined" players all along (31): boys disguised in "artificial flowers and leaves, / Whose workmanship both man and beast deceives" (19-20).

Furthermore, BPA at environmentally relevant concentrations has been found to stimulate proliferation of human testicular JKT-1 cells through a nongenomic action independent of classical ERs (Buskined et al.

In his Epigrams John Weever recalls when Marston, the writer of verse satire, and "buskined' Jonson, still best known for his tragedies, were friends.