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DOM Quotations Flashcards

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Give a quotation to show that the Duchess trusts her twin:

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‘Your knowledge of him condemns him and prefers him’

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What is Antonio’s view of ambition?

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‘Ambition is a great man’s madness’

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Who says this: ‘how superstitiously we mind our ends: the throwing down of salt, or crossing of a hare, bleeding at the nose, the stumbling of a horse or singing of a cricket are of power to daunt whole man in us’?

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Delio which shows that he’s superstitious

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Give a quotation to show Bosola’s desperation to become of a higher social class:

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‘I must have part of it, my intelligence will freeze else’

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How does Antonio describe Bosola at the beginning?

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‘Court-gall’

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How are Julia and the Duchess similar?

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Both hiding their happiness and both need a man

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Who says this and what is the act: ‘now, for this act I am certain to be rais’d’?

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Bosola says it after excessively complimenting Antonio as to win the Duchess’ trust and get information

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Give evidence to show how devoted the Duchess is to her family:

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After seeing the fake dead bodies of her family she says ‘there is not between heaven and earth one wish I stay for after this’

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Who says this about who: ‘more perfect in her tears than in her smiles’?

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Bosola about the Duchess

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What does the quotation ‘these words should be mine and all the parts you have spoke’ show about The Duchess?

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She too the more dominant/masculine role in their courtship

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11
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Give a quotationto show Antonio’s hyperbolic language in his description of the Duchess?

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‘Heaven’s gates are not so highly arched as prince’s palaces: that that enter there must go upon their knees’

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12
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What sins has the Cardinal committed that don’t fit with his profession?

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Adultery
Gambling
Murder

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Who says this about who: ‘he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligences, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters’?

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Antonio describes the Cardinal

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14
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Who is more frightening between the two brothers?

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The cardinal because he is eerily calm and shows no remorse

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15
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How does Bosola describe himself?

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‘An actor in the main of all much gainst mineown good nature’

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16
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Give a quotation to show Ferdinand’s potential homosexuality:

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‘Strong thighed bargemen’

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17
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Evidence of Eros love

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Cardinal and Julia

The Duchess and Antonio

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18
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Evidence of pragma love

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The Duchess and Antonio

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Evidence of storge love

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The Duchess Antonio and their children

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Evidence of philantia love

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The cardinal

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21
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Evidence of mania love

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Ferdinand

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22
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Example of ludus love

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Duchess and Antonio

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Evidence of philia love

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Delio and Antonio

The Duchess and cariola

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24
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‘Diamonds are of most value…’

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‘Diamonds are of most value,

They say, that have passed through most jewellers’ hands.’

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25
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‘The misery of us that are born great…’

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‘The misery of us that are born great,

We are forced to woo because none dare woo us’

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26
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‘Ambition madam…’

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‘Ambition madam is a great man’s madness’

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27
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‘These words should be mine’

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Antonio is embarrassed that the Duchess is in control

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28
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‘some of you give entertainment…’

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‘some of you give entertainment for pure love; but more for precious reward.’

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29
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‘Where I am a man…’

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‘Where I am a man

I’d beat that counterfeit face into thy other.’

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30
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‘I look no

higher than…’

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‘I look no

higher than I can reach’

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31
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‘Yes. I can be angry…’

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‘Yes. I can be angry without this rupture;’

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32
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‘Men oft are…’

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‘Men oft are valued high, when th’are most wretched’

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33
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‘I am…’

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‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’

34
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What are Ferdinand’s last words?

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“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,

Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.“

35
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theme of decay and corruption

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this renaissance motif is used to expose moral excess

36
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quotation for the theme of decay and corruption

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‘poison’t near the head, / Death and disease through the whole land spread’

37
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what is an aphorism

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a succinct statement that embodies an astute general truth

38
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example of an aphorism

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Castruchio says ‘It is fitting a soldier arise to be a prince, but not necessary a prince descend to be a captain’

39
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what is a parable

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a short, allegorical story which illustrates a moral or spiritual truth

40
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what is a sententia

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similar to an aphorism but appears at the end of scenes in elizabethan and jacobean drama in rhyming couplets

41
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example of a sententia

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Ferdinand says ‘That friend a great man’s ruin strongly checks, / Who rails into his belief, all his defects’

42
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some of you give entertainment for love…

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but more for more precious reward

43
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who said this? ‘whose throat must i cut?’

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bosola

44
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would be as lecherous, covertous or bloody…

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if he had the means to be so

45
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and wherefore should you lay..

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your marble colours

46
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who said this ‘now my revenge is perfect’

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bosola

47
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the last part of my life..

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hath done me best service

48
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i look no higher than i can reach…

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when a man’s mind moves faster than his horse, they both quickly tire

49
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we are merely the star’s tennis balls…

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struck and banded which way please them

50
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let worthy minds ne’er stagger…

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in distrust to suffer death or shame for what is just: mine is another voyage

51
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there is not in nature a thing that makes a man…

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so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger

52
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who said this about who ‘he strews in his way flatterers, panderers, intelligencers, atheists and a thousand such political monsters’

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antonio about the cardinal

53
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who said this ‘i can be angry without this rupture’

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the cardinal

54
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the cardinal ears himself…

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much too cruel

55
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tis more easy to…

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tie knots than unloose them

56
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who said this ‘look to my brother he gave us these large wounds’

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the cardinal

57
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let me be laid by…

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and never thought of

58
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what is ferdinand described as

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‘such a wild tempest’

59
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who said this ‘my imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin’

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ferdinand

60
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who does ferdinand see his sister with

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‘strong thighed bargemen’

61
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‘tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wildfire…

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but your whore’s blood

62
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ferdinand’s reason for the whole ordeal

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‘i had a hope, had she continued widow to have gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death, and that was the main cause’

63
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whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust

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like diamonds we are cut with our own dust

64
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ferdinand’s reaction to seeing the duchess dead

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‘my sister oh my sister’

65
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who said this about who ‘his nature is too honest for such business’

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the cardinal about antonio

66
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ambition, madam…

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is a great man’s madness

67
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were there no heaven nor hell…

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i should be honest

68
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who said this about who ‘this mole does undermine me’

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antonio about bosola

69
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quotation to show antonio being superstitious

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‘my nose bleeds one that were superstitious would count this ominous’

70
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what is happening here ‘you must instantly part hence’

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the duchess is sending antonio away

71
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who said this to who ‘this good one you speak of is my husband’

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the duchess to bosola

72
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he fashioned us of nothing…

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and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing

73
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how does antonio describe the duchess

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‘let all sweet ladies break their flatt’ring glasses and dress themselves in her’

74
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how does ferdinand describe his sister

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‘lusty widow’

75
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the birds that live i’th’field on…

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the wild benefit of nature live happier than we; for they may choose thai mates

76
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i know not which is best…

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to see you dead or part woth you

77
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who said this ‘must i…account it praise to suffer tyranny’

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the duchess

78
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were i a man…

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i’d beat that counterfeit face into thy other

79
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men oft are valu’d high…

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when they’re most wretched

80
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pull and pull strongly…

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for your able strength must pull down heaven upon me

81
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yet stay, heaven’t gates are no so highly arched…

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as princes palaces, they that enter there must go upon their knees’

82
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quotation showing the corruption of the court

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‘a prince’s court is like a common fountain’

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