text:  He is throughout a mere passive instrument leaving to chance or the exertions of others his extrication from the various troubles in which he becomes involved: even of the qualities usually regarded as inseparable from a hero of romance spirit and personal courage he is so utterly destitute as to suffer himself to be beaten and ill treated both by Thersander and Sostratus without an attempt to defend himself; and his lamentations whenever he finds himself in difficulties or separated from his ladye-love are absolutely puerile