Key Quotations - Bosola Flashcards
Bosola on the Aragonian Brothers
-‘He and his brother are like plum trees that grow over standing pools’
-‘They are rich and overladen, stagnant with fruit, but none the crows, pies, and caterpillars feed on them’
Seeing the irony in his nobility
‘Which makes men truly noble, e’er should make me a villain’
Bosola accepting his corrupt role from Ferdinand
‘The provisorship of the horse? Say then my corruption grew out of horse dung. I am your creature.’
Bosola on makeup
‘To behold thee not painted inclines somewhat near a miracle’
Bosola on the Duchess eating the apricot
‘How greedily she eats them!’
Bosola on fear of female sexuality
‘Monstrous desire’
Hatred of sycophants
‘And do these lice drop off now?’
How the Duchess deals with her imprisonment
‘Nobly’
How Bosola wants to see the Duchess after the guilt he feels
‘Never in mine own shape’
Dressed as an old man, coming to kill the Duchess
‘I am some to make thy tomb’
Ferdinand’s judgement
‘Mercy upon me, what a fatal judgement hath fall upon this Ferdinand!’
Cardinal after the Duchess’s murder
‘The Cardinal is grown wondrous melancholy’
Haunted by guilt, wanting to save Antonio
‘The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice’
Fate and Calvinism as he kills Antonio
‘We are merely that star’s tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them’
Anger towards the Cardinal for the Duchess’s death
‘Thou took’st from Justice her most equal balance and left her naught but her sword’
