Isabella quotes Flashcards
2:2,29- abhor
‘There is a vice that most I do abhor’
Lucio (about Isabella) 1:4,34-sainted
‘I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted’
1:4,75 -abilities
‘Alas, what poor ability’s in me to do him good!’
2:2 -severe
‘O just but severe law! I had a brother, then’
2:2,64 -slipp’d
‘If he had been as you, and you as he, you would have slipp’d like him’
2:2,75 -judgment
‘How would you be if He, which is the top of judgement, should but judge as you are?’
2:4,101 -whips
‘Th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, and strip myself to death as to a bed’
2:4,183 -chaste
‘Then, Isabel live chaste, and brother die: more than our brother is our chastity’
3:1,65 -mercy
‘There is a devilish mercy in the judge […] that will free your life, but fetter you till death’
(After Duke tells her Claudio dead) 4:3,119 -pluck
‘O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!’
5:1,26 -justice
‘justice, justice, justice, justice!’
3:1,145 -beast
‘O, you beast! O faithless coward! […] I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death; no word to save thee’
5:1,39 -angelo
‘That Angelo is an adulterous thief, an hypocrite, a virgin-violator; is it not strange?’
[kneeling] 5:1,441 -die
‘A due sincerity govern’ his deeds, till he did took on me: since it is so, let him not die. My brother had but justice, in that he did the thing for which he died: for Angelo, his act did not o’ertake his bad intent’
2:2,108 -giant
‘It is excellent. To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant’
