DofM: Moral corruption and deception Flashcards
“Are like plum trees…
“Are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools; they are rich and overladen with fruit”
“The witchcraft…
“The witchcraft lies in her rank blood”
- “rank” refers to both disgust AND status
D to A: “You are a Lord…
“You are a Lord of Misrule”
- lord of misrule: a person of lower rank chosen to preside over feasts at court, reversing the normal social order
- punning on Mis/misse = kept mistress
“Princes pay…
“Princes pay flatterers / In their own money”
F: [gives her a dead man’s hand]
D: “…
[gives her a dead man’s hand] “I affectionately kiss it”
CARD: “Kiss it” […
“Kiss it” [she kisses the book]
“Said he was a wolf, only…
“Said he was a wolf, only the difference / was a wolf skin was hairy on the outside / His on the inside”
“Great men, they are like / Foxes: …
“Great men, they are like / Foxes: when their heads are divided / They carry fire in their tails / and all the country about them goes to wrack for’t”
- irresponsibility of great men
- emotional imbalance of men = consequences for court and civilians
“Places in the court are…
“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”
“Should be my touchwood…
“Should be my touchwood, take fire when I give fire, laugh when I laugh”
“Prince’s court / Is like…
“Prince’s court / Is like a common fountain… poison’s near the head, / death and diseases through the whole land spread
“Thou art poisoned…
“Thou art poisoned with that book”
“I would pray now but…
“I would pray now but the devil has taken away my heart”
