Beauty Tempted . 16th century The theme of temptation is applied to a woman , who is surrounded by monsters in the manner of Desprez , a strange bespectacled friar leans out of a hollow tree inhabited by worms and offers her a kind of sausage - an obvious phallic symbol . A monk with a barrel for a body sits astride a cock , another symbol of lechery , the lion with a man ' s head is a representation for Satan .