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The Franciscan monk, whose name is later revealed to be Father Lorenzo, is a member of a Catholic religious order that takes a vow of poverty and relies on charity to support itself. Prior to becoming a monk at 45, he worked as a soldier and had a failed romantic affair. He begs alms of Yorick shortly after Yorick’s arrival in Calais, France. Yorick rudely and xenophobically denies the monk, criticizes his religious order’s vow of poverty, and claims that he (Yorick) has a duty to give to other English people before giving to foreigners. The monk’s lack of anger and humble acceptance of Yorick’s response make Yorick regret his rudeness and resolve to improve his manners. Shortly thereafter, the monk approaches Yorick in a carriage-yard—where Yorick is looking to buy a carriage—and offers him a snuff-box. Yorick tries to give the monk his own snuff-box as an apology; the monk denies that Yorick needs to apologize, and Yorick and the monk exchange snuff-boxes in a gesture of goodwill. Thereafter, Yorick uses the monk’s snuff-box to remind himself to be more mannered and humane. The monk thus represents foreign travel’s humanizing influence and religion’s potentially admirable qualities. The next time Yorick passes through Calais, he learns the monk has died, visits his grave, and cries.
Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo) Quotes in A Sentimental Journey
The A Sentimental Journey quotes below are all either spoken by Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo) or refer to Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1
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When man is at peace with man, how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand! he pulls out his purse, and holding it airily and uncompress’d, looks round him, as if he sought for an object to share it with[.]
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I have behaved very ill; said I within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels, and shall learn better manners as I get along.
I guard this box, as I would the instrumental parts of my religion, to help my mind on to something better: in truth, I seldom go abroad without it; and oft and many a time have I called up by it the courteous spirit of its owner to regulate my own, in the justlings of the world[.]
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In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur’s eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up—I can scarce find in it, to give Misery a sixpence, and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can, and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generosity and good will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.
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Why should I dissemble the matter? I had sworn to her eternal fidelity—she had a right to my whole heart—to divide my affections was to lessen them—to expose them, was to risk them: where there is risk, there may be loss—and what wilt though have, Yorick! to answer a heart so full of trust and confidence—so good, so gentle and unreproaching?
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Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo) Quotes in A Sentimental Journey
The A Sentimental Journey quotes below are all either spoken by Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo) or refer to Franciscan Monk (Father Lorenzo). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1
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When man is at peace with man, how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand! he pulls out his purse, and holding it airily and uncompress’d, looks round him, as if he sought for an object to share it with[.]
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I have behaved very ill; said I within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels, and shall learn better manners as I get along.
I guard this box, as I would the instrumental parts of my religion, to help my mind on to something better: in truth, I seldom go abroad without it; and oft and many a time have I called up by it the courteous spirit of its owner to regulate my own, in the justlings of the world[.]
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In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur’s eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up—I can scarce find in it, to give Misery a sixpence, and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can, and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generosity and good will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.
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Why should I dissemble the matter? I had sworn to her eternal fidelity—she had a right to my whole heart—to divide my affections was to lessen them—to expose them, was to risk them: where there is risk, there may be loss—and what wilt though have, Yorick! to answer a heart so full of trust and confidence—so good, so gentle and unreproaching?
