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(FINISHED) (A2) Pre-U English Quotes and Devices > (FINISHED) 1.1 Measure for Measure Quotes > Flashcards

(FINISHED) 1.1 Measure for Measure Quotes Flashcards

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Angelo’s famous metal quote

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Let there be some more test made of my metal/Before so noble and so great a figure be stamped upon it’

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What organic quote does the Duke use to refer to the state?

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given his deputation all the organs/ Of our own power’

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Act 1:1 Duke on Angelo’s Soul

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‘enforce or qualify the laws/ As to your soul seems good’

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How does Claudio describe Isabella in 1:2?

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in her youth/ There is a prone and speechless dialect/ Such as move men’

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The Duke on anticipating the Friar’s reaction

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‘For so I have strewed it in the common ear…You will demand of me why I do this’

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The Duke on Angelo’s persona

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scarce confesses/ That his blood flows, or that his appetite/ Is more to bread than stone

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Act 2:1 - falling

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’Tis one thing to e temped, Escalus/ Another thing to fall’

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Pompey euphemisms

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she came in…longing…for stewed prunes’

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War! Isabella

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I am/ At war ‘twixt will and will not’

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Ironic statement from servant about access

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Here is the sister…/Desires access to you’

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Lucio on persuasion Act 2:1

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Kneel down before him…You are too cold’

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Lucio on veins

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‘[Aside] Ay, touch him, there’s the vein’

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Angelo, a2s1, forfeit to the law

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Your brother is a forfeit of the law/ And you but waste your words’

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Isabella, new man made

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And mercy then will breathe within your lips/ Like man new made’

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Lucio on women

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when maidens sue/ Men give like gods’

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Isabella on wedges

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‘Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak’

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Angelo on recognising sense

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Aside] She speaks, and ‘tis such sense/ that my sense breeds with it’

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Isabella, bribery

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Hark how I’ll bribe you’

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Angelo foully quote

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Dost thou desire her foully for those things/ That make her good

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Tempter, tempted

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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most, ha?

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Virtuous maid

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‘This virtuous maid/ Subdues me quite’

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Thinking and praying

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When I would pray and think, I think and pray

23
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Devil’s horn

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‘Let’s write ‘Good Angel’ on the devil’s horn/ ‘Tis not the devil’s crest’

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Mouth

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Heaven in my mouth…swelling evil’

25
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Dispossessment

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Why does my blood thus muster to my heart…dispossessing all my other parts’

26
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Whips

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Th’ impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies/ And strip myself to death as to a bed’

27
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Treasures

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No earthly mean to save him, but that either/ You must lay down the treasures of your body’

28
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Be absolute

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Be absolute for death’

29
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Dark bride

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I will encounter darkness as a bride/ And hug it in mine arms’

30
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Thick ribbed ice

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kneaded cold…fiery floods…thick-ribbed ice…viewless winds…restless violence’

31
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Unpregnant

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This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant’

32
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How convenient of Ragozine

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There died this morning…One Ragozine…A man of Claudio’s years, his beard and head/ Just of his colour’

33
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Justice?

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justice, justice, justice, justice

34
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Bid redemption

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You seek me bid redemption of the devil’

35
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Mightier member

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‘My patience here is touched…These poor informal women are no more/ But instruments of some more mightier member’

36
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Sequent death

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sequent death/ Is all the grace I beg’

37
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Leisure and measure

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leisure answers leisure…and measure still for measure’

38
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Marriage- Duke and Isabella

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Give me your hand, and say you will be mine/ He is my brother too’

39
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Lucio - marriage

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Do not marry me to a whore

40
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Slander

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Slandering a prince deserves it’

41
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Isabella, giant quote

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It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant

42
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Duke - mercy

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What you have spoke, I pardon

43
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Angelo - law

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law

44
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Lucio - marriage to a punk

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Marrying a punk… Is pressing to death, whipping and hanging

45
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Angelo - coined image

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Coin heaven’s image in stamps that are forbid

46
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Duke - if power changes purpose

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Hence shall we see, if power changes purpose, what our seemers be

47
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Isabella - Value of chastity

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More than our brother is our chastity

48
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Duke - sword of heaven

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He who the sword of heaven will bear, should be holy as severe

49
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Escalus - on the duke

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One that above all other strifes, contended especially to know himself

50
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Angelo confession

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What dost thou? What art thou

51
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Angelo unpregnant

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This deed in shapes me quite, makes me unpregnant

52
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Duke habit quote

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Supply me with the habit and instruct me how I may formally bear like a true friar

53
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Honest in nothing but his clothes

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Cucullus non facit monarchum

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