id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at 14183,Beasts and Inhabitants,"",2012-04-19,"""Man in this world, Sir, may be compared to a hackney-coach upon a stand; continually subject to be drawn by his unruly appetites, on one foolish jaunt or another; but you will say, if his appetites are horses, which as it were drag him along, reason is the coachman to rule those horses--But, Sir, when the coachman reason, is drunk with passion--""",2004-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,"","•INTEREST. Cross-reference: Plato's Phaedrus.
•I've included thrice: Animals and Uncategorized and Government
• USED IN ENTRY",5268,"WAGG.
Well but stay darling don't cry--Lord help it, how it's little breast pants and heaves; you say this officer took you away; where did he take you chicken?

PRIS.
To his lodging, for he said he loved me so, he could not live without me, and if I did not comply with his desires, he said, he would kill himself on the spot.

BARN.
Comply with his desires!

PRIS.
I knew now, he would be in a passion.

WAGG.
Contain yourself, worthy, Sir; you hear this young fellow loved her; alas! Mr. Barnacle what is man? Man in this world, Sir, may be compared to a hackney-coach upon a stand; continually subject to be drawn by his unruly appetites, on one foolish jaunt or another; but you will say, if his appetites are horses, which as it were drag him along, reason is the coachman to rule those horses--But, Sir, when the coachman reason, is drunk with passion--

BARN.
Hark you hussy, I have but one question more to ask you, are you ruin'd, or not?

PRIS.
Oh ho--he, he, he.
(III.ii, pp. 50-1)",Act III. Scene ii.,2014-07-11 20:25:03 UTC