“She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver. You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness.”

On the broader note, I kind of think that “dormouse valour” is more compatible with Islam, in the sense that it is at least humble, than outright manliness which can be cruel.