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Act 2 quotations Flashcards

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“For all in vain comes…” - York (A2S1)

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“For all in vain comes counsel to his ear!”

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“His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves”

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“This other Eden…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“This other Eden, demi-paradise”

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“This precious stone set…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“This precious stone set in the silver sea”

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“This blessed plot, this earth, this…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”

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“This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world”

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“Is now leased out..Like to a tenement or…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“Is now leased out..Like to a tenement or pelting farm”

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“A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose compass is no bigger than thy head”

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“Landlord of England art thou now…” - Gaunt (A2S1)

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“Landlord of England art thou now, not King”

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“Thou art a lunatic lean…” - Richard (A2S1)

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“Thou art a lunatic lean-witted fool”

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“So much…” - Richard (A2S1)

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“So much for that”

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“we do seize to us the plate…” - Richard (A2S1)

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“we do seize to us the plate, coin, revenues and moveables”

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“In war was never lion raged more fierce, in peace…” - York (A2S1)

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“In war was never lion raged more fierce, in peace was never gentle lamb
more mild”

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“You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed… allegiance cannot think” - York (A2S1)

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“You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed hearts and prick my tender patience to close thoughts which honour and allegiance cannot think”

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“Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his…” - Richard (A2S1)

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“Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his goods, his money
and his lands”

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“The king is not himself, but…” Northumberland (A2S1)

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“The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers!”

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“My sweet Richard… Some unborn sorrow, ripe in…” - Queen Isabel (A2S2)

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“My sweet Richard… Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, is
coming towards me”

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“…repeals himself and with uplifted arms is safe arrived at Ravenspurgh” - Greene (A2S2)

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“The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself and with uplifted arms is safe
arrived at Ravenspurgh”

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“The Lord Northumberland…the lords..with all their powerful friends…” - Greene (A2S2)

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“The Lord Northumberland…the lords..with all their powerful friends, are fled to him”

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“Here I am left to underprop his land, who, weak with age…” - York (A2S2)

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“Here I am left to underprop his land, who, weak with age, cannot support
myself”

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“The king had cut off my head…” York (A2S2)

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“The king had cut off my head with my brothers”

22
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“Both are my…” - York (A2S2)

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“Both are my kinsmen”

23
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“Wherein the King stands…” -Bushy (A2S2)

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“Wherein the King stands generally condemned!”

24
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“We three here part that ne’er…” - Bagot (A2S2)

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“We three here part that ne’er shall meet again”

25
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“Alas poor Duke: the task he undertakes is numb’ring…” - Greene (A2S2)

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“Alas poor Duke: the task he undertakes is numb’ring sands and drinking oceans dry”

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“And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, making the hard way…” - Northumberland (A2S3)

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“And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, making the hard way sweet and delectable”

27
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“Tut, tut! Grace me no… and that word ‘grace’ in an ungracious mouth is but profane” - York (A2S3)

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“Tut, tut! Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle, I am no traitor’s uncle, and that word ‘grace’ in an ungracious mouth is but profane”

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“Th’anointed King…” - York (A2S3)

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“Th’anointed King is hence”

29
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“In gross rebellion and…” - York (A2S3)

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“In gross rebellion and detested treason”

30
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“Thou art a banished man, and here art come, before the expiration of thy time, in braving…” - York (A2S3)

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“Thou art a banished man, and here art come, before the expiration of thy time, in braving arms against thy Sovereign”

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“As I was banish’d, I was banish’d Her’ford but as I come…” - Bolingbroke (A2S3)

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“As I was banish’d, I was banish’d Her’ford but as I come, I come for
Lancaster”

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“You are my father, for methinks in you…” - Bolingbroke (A2S3)

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“You are my father, for methinks in you I see old Gaunt alive”

33
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“Be his own carver and…” - York (A2S3)

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“Be his own carver and cut out his way!”

34
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“So fare you well; unless you please to enter in the castle and there…” - York (A2S3)

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“So fare you well; unless you please to enter in the castle and there repose you for this night”

35
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“The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which I have sworn to…” - Bolingbroke (A2S3)

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“The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which I have sworn to weed and pluck away”

36
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“The pale-faced moon looks…” - Captain (A2S4)

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“The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth”

37
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“These signs fore-run the…” - Captain (A2S4)

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“These signs fore-run the death or fall of kings”

38
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“Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled, as well assured…” - Captain (A2S4)

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“Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled, as well assured Richard their
King is dead”

39
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“I see thy glory, like a…” - Salisbury (A2S4)

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“I see thy glory, like a shooting star”

40
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“Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, witnessing storms to…” - Salisbury (A2S4)

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“Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, witnessing storms to come, woe
and unrest”

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