malfi Flashcards
Duchess: “Diamonds are..
‘Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through most jewellers hands’
Ferdinand: ‘Whores, by that rule, are precious’
Bosola: ‘I do..
‘I do haunt you still’
Bosola: ‘Blackbirds..
‘Blackbirds fatten best in hard weather, why not I, in these dog days?’ - Bosola
Duchess: ‘The misery of…
‘The misery of us that are born great: we are forced to woo because none dare woo us’ - Duchess
Ferdinand: ‘I have this..
‘I have this night digged up a mandrake… and I am grown mad with’t’
Duchess: ‘Time will…
‘Time will easily scatter the tempest’
Ferdinand: ‘My imagination…
‘My imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin… with some strong-thighed bargeman’
Ferdinand: ‘’Go to, mistress!…
‘Go to, mistress! ‘Tis not your whre’s milk that shall quench my wildfire, but your whre’s blood.’
Duchess: ‘You are a Lord of…
‘You are a Lord of Misrule’
Duchess: ‘Whether I am…
‘Whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince.’
Servant: ‘There’s a mad…
“There’s a mad lawyer, and a secular priest”
Doctor: ‘A very pestilent…
“A very pestilent disease…/ They call lycanthrophia’
Cardinal: ‘Methinks…
‘Methinks I see a thing armed with a rake/ That seems to strike at me”
Ferdinand: ‘Cover her..
‘Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young.’
