19-20 Flashcards
PRINCE
The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you. The gentleman that danced with her told her she is much wronged by you.
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her.
An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her.
My very visor began to assume life and scold with her.
My very visor began to assume life and scold with her.
She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince’s jester, that I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me.
She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince’s jester, that I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the North Star.
If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the North Star.
I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire, too.
She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire, too.
Come, talk not of her. You shall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel.
Come, talk not of her. You shall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel.
I would to God some scholar would conjure her, for certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose because they would go thither.
I would to God some scholar would conjure her, for certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose because they would go thither.
So indeed all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her.
PRINCE Look, here she comes.
Will your Grace command me any service to the world’s end?
Will your Grace command me any service to the world’s end?
I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on.
I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on.
I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of Prester John’s foot, fetch you a hair off the great Cham’s beard, do you any embassage to the Pygmies, rather than hold three words’ conference with this harpy.
You have no employment for me?
PRINCE None but to desire your good company.
O God, sir, here’s a dish I love not! I cannot
endure my Lady Tongue.
