Important Quotes Duchess Flashcards

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Bosola : rich and o’erladen

A

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

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Bosola : plum trees

A

Plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools

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2
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Castrucio : soldier

A

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

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3
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Bosola: devil

A

Sometimes the devil doth preach

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4
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Duchess : woo

A

We are forced to woo as none dare woo us

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5
Q

You are an impudent snake indeed sir

A

Angelo

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6
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Ferdinand : imagination

A

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

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7
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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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8
Q

The common rabble do directly say she is a strumpet

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Antonio

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9
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Duchess : Prince

A

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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11
Q

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

A

Duchess

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12
Q

Duchess : were I am man

A

Were I a man if beat that counterfeit face

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13
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Duchess : robin

A

The robin redbreast and the nightingale never live long in cages

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14
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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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15
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Bosola : theif

A

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

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16
Q

Was I her judge?

A

Ferdinand

17
Q

Bosola : servant

A

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

A

Bosola : redemption

19
Q

Doctor : hair and skin

A

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

20
Q

Bodily : basilisk

A

This fellow doth breed basilisk in his eyes

21
Q

I am the duchess of Malfi still!

A

Duchess

22
Q

Why didst thou…

A

… Not pity her?

23
Q

Like diamonds we are cut…

A

… With our own dust

24
Q

Let me be laid by…

A

…and never thought of

25
Q

Biol their bastard…

A

… To a cullis

26
Q

Givst my little boy…

A

… Some syrup for his cold

27
Q

The marriage night…

A

… Is the entrance into some prison

28
Q

How tedious…

A

… Is a guilty conscience

29
Q

Alas your shears do come untimely now to clip…

A

… The birds wings that’s already flown!

30
Q

She and I were twins…

A

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

31
Q

My imagination will carry me to see…

A

Her in the shameful act of sin

32
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I will remain the…

A

Constant sanctuary of your good name

33
Q

A young widow, that claims you for her husband…

A

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

34
Q

Cover her face, mine…

A

…eyes dazzle; she died young

35
Q

Forced to woo…

A

… Because none dare woo us

36
Q

Other sins speak…

A

Murder shrieks out

37
Q

She stains the one past…

A

…lights the time to come

38
Q

When I chose a husband…

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…I will marry for your honour

39
Q

Ambition, madam…

A

… Is a great mans madness

40
Q

I know death hath ten thousand…

A

Several doors for men to take their exit

41
Q

They are rich and o’erladen with fruit…

A

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