He breaks up with her by saying "When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death" and accuses her of loving a character who was earlier described as having arrived "piping hot from Paris," but who mispronounces "au revoir."
One character in this play quotes Edmund Waller's "The Self Banished" before talking to a fruit-seller, whose wares he insults. Another character tears her fan into pieces while confronting a character who took another woman to a play instead of her. He breaks up with her by saying "When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death" and accuses her of loving a character who was earlier described as having arrived "piping hot from Paris," but who mispronounces "au revoir." In this play, Lady Townley's brother stays with Emillia, not realizing that she is the love interest of his son, Bellair. Bellair has been forced into an engagement with the daughter of Lady Woodvil, Harriet, whom the protagonist eventually marries. Its main character is thought to have been based on John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, and is named Dorimant. For 10 points, name this play which includes the fashioned-obsessed dandy Sir Fopling Flutter, a Restoration comedy by George Etherege.
One character in this play quotes Edmund Waller's "The Self Banished" before talking to a fruit-seller, whose wares he insults.
The Man of Mode