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Ferdinand Quote Flashcards

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Nature

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‘Perverse and turbulent nature’

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Spider

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‘Entangle those shall feed him’

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Siblings

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cast in one figure of so different a temper’

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Madness

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‘Put him out of his wits’

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Ambition

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‘How fearful shows his ambition now’

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Oxymoron

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‘Unfortunate fortune’

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Mandrake

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‘I have this night digger up a mandrake’

‘I am grown mad with it’

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Anger at duchess

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‘A sister damned’
‘Loose in the hilts’
‘Notorious strumpet’

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No reason left

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‘You fly beyond your reason’

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Tempest

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‘Why do you make yourself so wild a tempest’

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Blood

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‘Purge infected blood’

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Tears

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‘There is a kind of pity in mine eye, I’ll give it to my handkerchief’

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Incest

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‘Imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin’

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Sleep tempest

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‘He is so quiet that he seems to sleep the tempest putt, as dormice do in winter’

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Deaf

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‘Let me be forever deaf to it’

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Witchcraft

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‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood. This night I will force confession from her’

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Flatterers

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‘I never gave pension to flatterers till I entertained Thee’

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Violent effects

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‘Such violent effects as would destroy us both’

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Eye

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‘A very salamander lives ins eye’

20
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Leprosy

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‘Her fault and beauty blended together like leprosy’

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Children

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‘Beggarly brats were ever christened’

22
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Duchess

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‘This darkness suits you’
‘To bring her despair’
‘Damn her that body of hers’

23
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Mad folk

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‘Have her meat served up by bawds’

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Eyes dazzle

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‘Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle’

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Wits

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‘I was distracted of my wits’

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Anger as bosola

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‘I hate thee for’t’

27
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Badger

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‘I’ll go hunt the badger by owl-light’

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Illness

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‘Sick as they give out of apoplexy’
‘A Frenzy’
‘In those that are possessed with’t there o’er flows such melancholy humour’

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Wolf

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‘A wolf skin was hairy in the outside, his in the inside’

30
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Shadow

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‘Fall upon’t’

‘Let it not haunt me’

31
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Beast

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‘You are all of you like beats for sacrifice there’s nothing left of you but tongue and belly flattery and lechery’

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Strangling

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‘Strangling is a very quiet death’

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Pain

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‘Pains nothing’

34
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Dog kennel

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‘I do account this world but a god kennel’

35
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Cause of sorrow

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‘My sister- there’s th cause on’t’

36
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Last line

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‘Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’

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