Act 1 Flashcards
“A prince’s court
Is like a common fountain”
“Here comes Bosola
The only court gall”
“ Miserable age
Where the only reward of doing well is the doing of it “
“ This great fellow were able to
Possess the greatest devil and make him worse “
“ He and his brother are like plum
Trees that grow crooked over standing pools”
“Foul
Melancholy “
“ Our sister duchess’
Great master of her household “
Castruccio says “ It is fitting a soldier arise
To be a prince, but not necessary, a prince descend to be a captain “
Antonio tells Delio that the Cardinal is
a “ Melancholy, Churchman “
The cardinal “ strews in his way, flatterers,
Panderers, intelligences… And political monsters”
Ferdinand - “ The law to him is like a
Foul black cobweb to a spider, he makes it his dwelling, and a prison to untangle those shall feed him”
Antonio’s first description of the D
“Right noble duchess”
“She stains the past,
Lights the time to come “
The Cardinal says Antonio is
“Too honest”
F - “ I would not have
Her marry again “