The family's name reminds me of this quote from Hamlet, where Ophelia is talking to her brother Laertes after he has advised her to watch herself with Hamlet:

"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede."