Duchess

Question 1

You never …. your …. on three fair ….. cast in one …… of so different …….

Answer 1

You never cast your eye on three fair medals cast in one figure of so different temper.

Question 2

Diamonds are of most ….., they say, that have …. through the ….. ……. hands

Answer 2

Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have past through the most jewellers hands.

Question 3

Shall this ….. me?

Answer 3

Shall this move me?

Question 4

If all my …… …… lay in my way into this ……. I’d make them my …. ……….

Answer 4

If all my royal kindred lay in my way into this marriage I’d make them my lowly footsteps

Question 5

I sent for you. …. …..

Answer 5

I sent for you. Sit down.
- ordering Antonio around

Question 6

Make not your ….. so ….. a piece of ….. to …. more than to …… me.

Answer 6

Make not your heart so dead a piece of flesh to fear more than to love me.

Question 7

This is …. and ….. sir. ‘Tis not the ….. cut in ……. kneels at my …….. tomb.

Answer 7

This is flesh and blood sir. ‘Tis not the figure cut in alabaster kneels at my husbands tomb.

Question 8

All discord, without this ….. is only to be ….. not …….

Answer 8

All discord, without this circumference, is only to be pitied and not feared.

Question 9

Time will easily scatter the ……

Answer 9

Time will easily scatter the tempest.

Question 10

Let violence never ……

Answer 10

Let violence never untwine

Question 11

Whether the spirit of ….. or of ……. reign most in her, I know not, but it shows a ……. …….

Answer 11

Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her, I know not, but it shows a fearful madness.

Question 12

Be you the example to the rest o’th’ …..; put your ….. on first.

Answer 12

Be you the example to the rest o’ th’ court; put your hat on first.
- raising Antonio up, giving him power.

Question 13

Shall our ….. - the royal …. of Aragon and Castile - be thus attainted?

Answer 13

Shall our blood- the royal blood of Aragon and Castile - be thus attainted?
- Duchess ‘stains’ the royal blood.
- misogyny

Question 14

I’ll ….. your …..

Answer 14

I’ll stop your mouth.
- Duchess has power over Antonio

Question 15

When I wax …. I shall have all the …. …. their …. with arras to be like me.

Answer 15

When I wax grey I shall have all the court powder their hair with arras to be like me.

Question 16

Whether I am …… to live or …., I can do both like a …….

Answer 16

Whether I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince.
- bravery, unchanging

Question 17

Your ….. do come untimely now, to clip the ….. wings that’s already ……

Answer 17

Your shears do come untimely now, to clip the birds wings that’s already flown.

Question 18

Why should only I, of all the other ….. of the ….., be ….. up like a …. ….? I have …. and a little ……

Answer 18

Why should only I, of all other princes be cased up like a holy relic? I have youth and a little beauty.

Question 19

I am ……. of …… still

Answer 19

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

Question 20

She ….. the ….. past, ….. the time to …..

Answer 20

She stains the time past, lights the time to come.

Question 21

Let all sweet ladies break their …… …… and dress …… in her.

Answer 21

Let all sweet ladies break their flattering glasses and dress themselves in her.