"Nature has her cheats, stums a brain, and puts sophisticate dullness often on the tasteless multitude for true wit and good humour"

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)


Date
1676
Metaphor
"Nature has her cheats, stums a brain, and puts sophisticate dullness often on the tasteless multitude for true wit and good humour"
Metaphor in Context
EMILIA
However you despise him, gentlemen, I'll lay my life he passes for a wit with many.

DORIMANT
That may very well be. Nature has her cheats, stums a brain, and puts sophisticate dullness often on the tasteless multitude for true wit and good humour.--Medley, come.
(Act III, scene ii, p. 112)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
McMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1973.
Date of Entry
07/23/2003
Date of Review
05/26/2009

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.