The irony of Faith
The character and attributes of faith disturb Dion. Faith has a good position in the confederate because she is in charge of the princess' affairs. However, she uses her beauty and influence to destroy her body. Ironically, she tries to taste every man she comes across, which, in the long run, destroys her body. The author writes, “She loves to try the several constitutions of men's bodies; and, indeed, has destroyed the worth of her own body by experimenting upon it for the good of the commonwealth.”
The Irony Philaster
Philaster is the prince who is seeking to marry the King's daughter. The King allows him to express himself freely. However, it is ironic that the King and his people start faulting Philaster that he has no freedom of expression. The author writes, “Sir, you wrong the prince, and I gave you not this freedom to brave our best friends: you deserve our frown, go be better tempered.”
The irony of the prince’s speech
The reader finds it ironic that the King, at some point, is fond of the prince, but sometimes he gets irritated with him. The prince tells the King that he is also powerful because he has his late father's spirit. Satirically, the King is not happy, and he says, "Away! I do not like this: I will make you tamer or dispossess you both of your life and spirit. For this time, I pardon your wild speech, without so much as your imprisonment.”
The irony of Galatea
Pharamond is the Spaniard prince who is astonished that the ladies nowadays have no respect for the grown men. It is ironic that when he asks Galatea the question regarding respecting the old, she brushes him off. When the prince asks Galatea why ladies do not respect old men, she replies, “Full being! I understand you not unless you grace means growing to fatness, and then your only remedy (upon my knowledge, prince) is, in a morning, a cup of neat white wine brewed with carduus, the fast till supper…”
The irony of morality
Pharamond is ironically making a fool of himself when he asks Meg for a sexual relationship. Pharamond goes ahead to tell the lady that he will teach her love making in a single night. The reader finds it sardonic that Pharamond asks for affection and love from the same women he considers disrespected in the kingdom. Meg wonders why the prince should ask her for, and yet he has a woman of his own at home. Meg asks the prince, "Why, prince, you have a lady of your own that yet wants teaching"?
