ACT I Flashcards
Antonio: “to”
“to reduce both state and people/ To a fixed order”
Antonio: “should”
“should flow/ Pure silver drops in general, but if’t chance/ Some cursed example poison’t near the head, / Death and diseases through the whole land spread”
Bosola: “they”
“they are rich and o’erladen with fruit, but none but crow, pies and caterpillars feed on them”
Bosola: “places”
“places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man’s head lies at that man’s foot, and so lower, and lower”
Ferdinand: “take”
“take fire when I give fire, that is, laugh when I laugh, were the subject never so witty”
Antonio: “the”
“The spring in his face is nothing but the engend’ring of toads…he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists, a thousand such political monsters”
Delio: “the”
“the law to him/ Is like a foul black cobweb to a spider”
Bosola: “whose”
“Whose throat must I cut?”
Ferdinand: “you”
“You live in a rank pasture here, i’th’court./ There is a kind of honey-dew that’s deadly”
Duchess: “if”
“If all my royal kindred/ Lay in my way unto this marriage/ I’d make them my low-footsteps”
Duchess: “I”
“I winked and chose a husband”
Antonio: “there”
“There is a saucy and ambitious devil/ Is dancing in this circle”
Duchess: “this”
“This goodly roof of yours is too low built…/Raise yourself,/ Or, if you please, my hand to help you: so”
Antonio: “ambition”
“Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness”
Duchess: “we”
“We are forced to woo because none dare woo us”
