(FINISHED) 1.1 Measure for Measure Quotes

Question 1

Angelo’s famous metal quote

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Act 1:1 Duke on Angelo’s Soul

Answer 3

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

Question 4

How does Claudio describe Isabella in 1:2?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

The Duke on anticipating the Friar’s reaction

Answer 5

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

Question 6

The Duke on Angelo’s persona

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Act 2:1 - falling

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Pompey euphemisms

Answer 8

she came in…longing…for stewed prunes’

Question 9

War! Isabella

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Ironic statement from servant about access

Answer 10

Here is the sister…/Desires access to you’

Question 11

Lucio on persuasion Act 2:1

Answer 11

Kneel down before him…You are too cold’

Question 12

Lucio on veins

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Angelo, a2s1, forfeit to the law

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Isabella, new man made

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Lucio on women

Answer 15

when maidens sue/ Men give like gods’

Question 16

Isabella on wedges

Answer 16

‘Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak’

Question 17

Angelo on recognising sense

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Isabella, bribery

Answer 18

Hark how I’ll bribe you’

Question 19

Angelo foully quote

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Tempter, tempted

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Virtuous maid

Answer 21

‘This virtuous maid/ Subdues me quite’

Question 22

Thinking and praying

Answer 22

When I would pray and think, I think and pray

Question 23

Devil’s horn

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Mouth

Answer 24

Heaven in my mouth…swelling evil’

Question 25

Dispossessment

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Whips

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Treasures

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Be absolute

Answer 28

Be absolute for death’

Question 29

Dark bride

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Thick ribbed ice

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Unpregnant

Answer 31

This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant’

Question 32

How convenient of Ragozine

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Justice?

Answer 33

justice, justice, justice, justice

Question 34

Bid redemption

Answer 34

You seek me bid redemption of the devil’

Question 35

Mightier member

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Sequent death

Answer 36

sequent death/ Is all the grace I beg’

Question 37

Leisure and measure

Answer 37

leisure answers leisure…and measure still for measure’

Question 38

Marriage- Duke and Isabella

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Lucio - marriage

Answer 39

Do not marry me to a whore

Question 40

Slander

Answer 40

Slandering a prince deserves it’

Question 41

Isabella, giant quote

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Duke - mercy

Answer 42

What you have spoke, I pardon

Question 43

Angelo - law

Answer 43

We must not make a scarecrow of the law

Question 44

Lucio - marriage to a punk

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Angelo - coined image

Answer 45

Coin heaven’s image in stamps that are forbid

Question 46

Duke - if power changes purpose

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Isabella - Value of chastity

Answer 47

More than our brother is our chastity

Question 48

Duke - sword of heaven

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Escalus - on the duke

Answer 49

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

Question 50

Angelo confession

Answer 50

What dost thou? What art thou

Question 51

Angelo unpregnant

Answer 51

This deed in shapes me quite, makes me unpregnant

Question 52

Duke habit quote

Answer 52

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

Question 53

Honest in nothing but his clothes

Answer 53

Cucullus non facit monarchum