But Meet the Feebles was stomach-churning when I saw it in theaters 25 years ago, and rewatching it, I found myself once again groaning in disgust and loathing loud enough to startle my poor, confused greyhound, who kept wandering in to try to figure out what was the matter.
In the 1981 Falklands war she was photographed on a tank in an image that the Daily Telegraph described as "a cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia", while her "Iron Lady" speech echoed the "body of a weak and feeble woman … heart and stomach of a king" construction employed by Elizabeth I.
"I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king -- and of a King of England, too," she exhorted, as she praised her men's virtue and courage.
"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and a king of England, too," she told them.
When it came to war against the Spanish Armada she roused her troops by telling them "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king".
Elizabeth I to her army on the eve of the Spanish Armada: "I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king -- and of a king of England, too".
"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too," she told her troops on the eve of invasion by the Spanish Armada.
The patient described in Aretaeus' work had stomach pain and was atrophied, pale, feeble and incapable of work.
He also wrote some famous women's speeches, such as "The quality of mercy is not strained... .. and "O yet, for god's sake, go not to these wars... ..; Queen Elizabeth herself said in her "famous" Tilbury speech: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king..."...
I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
