"It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles."
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop [etc.]
Date
1656
Metaphor
"It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles."
Metaphor in Context
KNOWWEL
Well let him go, for he is an Asse I'm sure, and so he ever will be, therefore it were a folly for to trouble my self any more with him.
LOVEWIT
He can fight I see, although he cannot talk.
Aside.
MRS. CRISIS
Now, Sir, I am not altogether of your mind; though the, Gentleman (I must confess) doth appear absurd enough, my Cozen and I though, are not altogether out of hopes in time to make him a little more understand himself, somewhat I think we have done already.
KNOWWEL
It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles.
MRS. CRISIS
Sir, if he were a natural Fool, I should yeeld much to your opinion, but in my mind his chiefest unhappiness is, only to have set his mind on some odd fancies, which if we could perswade him out of, he would be (at the least) not ridiculous.
Well let him go, for he is an Asse I'm sure, and so he ever will be, therefore it were a folly for to trouble my self any more with him.
LOVEWIT
He can fight I see, although he cannot talk.
Aside.
MRS. CRISIS
Now, Sir, I am not altogether of your mind; though the, Gentleman (I must confess) doth appear absurd enough, my Cozen and I though, are not altogether out of hopes in time to make him a little more understand himself, somewhat I think we have done already.
KNOWWEL
It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles.
MRS. CRISIS
Sir, if he were a natural Fool, I should yeeld much to your opinion, but in my mind his chiefest unhappiness is, only to have set his mind on some odd fancies, which if we could perswade him out of, he would be (at the least) not ridiculous.
Provenance
Searching "unbend" and "mind" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
05/09/2011
