This place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3. The drunken Porter’s role is to add humor to an otherwise dark and violent play. When he refers to the “primrose way,” this is a metaphor for the hedonistic, self-indulgent path to hell.