Important Quotes Duchess Flashcards

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Bosola : rich and o’erladen

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They are rich and o’verladen with fruit but only crows, flies and caterpillars feed off them

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Bosola : plum trees

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Plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools

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Castrucio : soldier

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It is fitting a soldier arise to be a Prince, but not necessary a Prince descend to be a captain

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Bosola: devil

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Sometimes the devil doth preach

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Duchess : woo

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We are forced to woo as none dare woo us

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5
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You are an impudent snake indeed sir

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Angelo

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Ferdinand : imagination

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my imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin

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Ferdinand : coalpit

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I would have their bodies buried in a coal pit… Boil their bastard to a cullis

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The common rabble do directly say she is a strumpet

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Antonio

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Duchess : Prince

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Whether I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a Prince

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10
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Before she looked like a nutmeg grater, after she resembled an abortive hedgehog

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Bosola

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Must I like to a slave born Russian account it praise to suffer tyranny

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Duchess

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12
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Duchess : were I am man

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Were I a man if beat that counterfeit face

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Duchess : robin

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The robin redbreast and the nightingale never live long in cages

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Duchess : heaven

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Heavens gates are not so highly arched as princes palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees

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Bosola : theif

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The office of justice is perverted quite when one thief hangs another

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16
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Was I her judge?

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Ferdinand

17
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Bosola : servant

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Sought to appear a true servant than an honest man

18
Q

Return fair soul from darkness, and lead mine out of this sensible hell

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Bosola : redemption

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Doctor : hair and skin

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A wolfs skin was hairy on the outside, his on the inside

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Bodily : basilisk

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This fellow doth breed basilisk in his eyes

21
Q

I am the duchess of Malfi still!

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Duchess

22
Q

Why didst thou…

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… Not pity her?

23
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Like diamonds we are cut…

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… With our own dust

24
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Let me be laid by…

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…and never thought of

25
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Biol their bastard…

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… To a cullis

26
Q

Givst my little boy…

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… Some syrup for his cold

27
Q

The marriage night…

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… Is the entrance into some prison

28
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How tedious…

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… Is a guilty conscience

29
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Alas your shears do come untimely now to clip…

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… The birds wings that’s already flown!

30
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She and I were twins…

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…and should I die this instant, I had liv’d her time to a minute

31
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My imagination will carry me to see…

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Her in the shameful act of sin

32
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I will remain the…

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Constant sanctuary of your good name

33
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A young widow, that claims you for her husband…

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…and like a widow I use but half a blush in it

34
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Cover her face, mine…

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…eyes dazzle; she died young

35
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Forced to woo…

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… Because none dare woo us

36
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Other sins speak…

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Murder shrieks out

37
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She stains the one past…

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…lights the time to come

38
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When I chose a husband…

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…I will marry for your honour

39
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Ambition, madam…

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… Is a great mans madness

40
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I know death hath ten thousand…

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Several doors for men to take their exit

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They are rich and o’erladen with fruit…

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…but none but crows,flies and caterpillars feed on them