"My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale."
— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Standfast ... and Francis Coggen [etc.]
Date
1699
Metaphor
"My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale."
Metaphor in Context
LOV.
A cheap, a very cheap way of making acknowledgment, and therefore thou hast catch'd, which makes thee more ungrateful.
ROEB.
My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale.
LOV.
(Pausing.)
No, I've thought better; my Reason clears: She is not worth my Sword; a Bully only shou'd draw in her defence, for she's false, a Prostitute.
(Puts up his Sword.
ROEB.
A Prostitute! By Heaven thou ly'st.
(Draws.)
--Thou hast blasphem'd. Her Vertue answers the uncorrupted state of Woman; so much above Immodesty, that it mocks Temptation. She has convinc'd me of the bright Honour of her Sex, and I stand Champion now for the fair Female Cause.
A cheap, a very cheap way of making acknowledgment, and therefore thou hast catch'd, which makes thee more ungrateful.
ROEB.
My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale.
LOV.
(Pausing.)
No, I've thought better; my Reason clears: She is not worth my Sword; a Bully only shou'd draw in her defence, for she's false, a Prostitute.
(Puts up his Sword.
ROEB.
A Prostitute! By Heaven thou ly'st.
(Draws.)
--Thou hast blasphem'd. Her Vertue answers the uncorrupted state of Woman; so much above Immodesty, that it mocks Temptation. She has convinc'd me of the bright Honour of her Sex, and I stand Champion now for the fair Female Cause.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "passion" and "balance" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
12/11/2006
