Act 5 Flashcards
Act 5 Scene 1: the Duke greeting both Angelo and Escalus upon his ‘return’ to Vienna
“My very worthy cousin, fairly met. Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.”
Act 5 Scene 1: the Duke ironically revealing that he has been keeping informed into the affairs in Vienna
“We have made enquiry of you, and we hear / Such goodness of your justice”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“let your reason serve / To make the truth appear where it seems hid, / And hide the false seems true.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“My husband bids me, now I will unmask.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“These poor informal women are no more / But instruments of some more mightier member / That sets them on.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“Cucullus non facit monachum”
[a hood does not make a friar]
Act 5 Scene 1:
“for women are light at midnight.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“the duke / Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he / Dare rack his own.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“I protest I love the duke as I love myself.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“But let my trial be mine own confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all grace I beg.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“Your friar is now your prince”
“Oh, give me pardon / That I, your vassal, have employ’d and pain’d / Your unknown sovereignty.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“I hope you will not mock me with a husband?”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“If he be like your brother, for his sake / Is he pardon’d, and for your lovely sake / Give me your hand, and say you will be mine, / He is my brother too.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well. / Look that you love your wife: he worth, worth yours.”
