Sublime

Temperance was a delicate wench.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.

Another precedent can be found in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775), one of the most popular plays of the century (and mentioned in Mansfield Park): its upper-class heroine is so entranced by the illicit elopements found in novels that her lover is forced to disguise himself as an illicit poor suitor in order to win her affection.

the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table.

PROS. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow!

let your haste commend your duty.

brevity is the soul of wit,

profligacies