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Malfi quotes Flashcards

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Antonio the court

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‘some cursed example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’

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Bosola leeches

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‘hang on their ears like horse-leeches’

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Bosola melancholy

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‘this foul melancholy will poison all his goodness’

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Cardinal true character

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‘observe his inward character: he is a melancholy churchman’

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Ferdinand nature

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‘a most perverse and turbulent nature’

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The Duchess character

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‘right noble Duchess’

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Antonio too good to be a spy

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‘his nature is too honest for such business’

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Bosola envy

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‘you envy those that stand above your reach’

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Ferdinand widow

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‘lusty widow’

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The court

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‘rank pasture’

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Ferdinand spy

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‘your darkest actions, nay, your privat’st thoughts, will come to light’

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The Cardinal marriage

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‘the marriage night is the entrance into some prison’

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13
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the Duchess like a soldier

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‘will assay this dangerous venture’

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14
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Antonio flirting

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‘beauteous excellence’

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15
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Antonio ring

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‘a saucy and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle’

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Born great

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‘the misery of us that are born great’

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17
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The Duchess passion

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‘violent passions’

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18
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Alabaster

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'’tis not the figure cut in alabaster kneels at my husband’s tomb’

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19
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the Duchess naive

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‘time will easily scatter the tempest’

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Cariola the Duchess

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‘I owe her much of pity’

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21
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Bosola mean

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‘abortive hedgehog’

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Bosola no ambition

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‘I look no higher than I can reach’

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Delio old friends

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‘old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best’

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Bosola about the Duchess being naive

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‘she’s oft found witty, but is never wise’

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25
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Julia is a…

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‘witty false one’

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Julia lust

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‘giddy and wild turnings in yourself’

27
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Women glass

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‘a man might strive to make glass malleable’

28
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The Cardinal love

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‘come, I’ll love you wisely, that’s jealously’

29
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Julia perch

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‘I have taken you off your melancholy perch’

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Ferdinand the Duchess slut

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‘notorious strumpet’

31
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Ferdinand violent

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‘of her bleeding heart I make a sponge’

32
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Royal blood

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‘the royal blood of Aragon and Castile, be thus attainted?’

33
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Ferdinand incest

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‘to see her in the shameful act of sin’

34
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the Duchess count Malateste

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‘he’s a mere stick of sugar candy’

35
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Cariola affectionate

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‘she’s the sprawling’st bedfellow’

36
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the Duchess happy

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‘when were we so happy?’

37
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The Duchess and Antonio love

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‘I enter’d you into my heart before you would vouchsafe to call for the keys’

38
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The Duchess love

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‘love mixed with fear is the sweetest’

39
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the Duchess like a prince

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‘whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince’

40
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lie justified

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‘a noble lie’

41
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Bosola about Antonio

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‘too honest’ (also said at the start of the play)

42
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Antonio status

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‘basely descended’

43
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Bosola judging status

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‘rather to examine men’s pedigrees rather than virtues?’

44
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Ferdinand Antonio’s status

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‘a slave that only smelled of ink and counters’

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Antonio power

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‘yes, you see what power lightens in great men’s breath’

46
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Antonio father

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‘be a good mother to your little ones’

47
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If the Duchess was a man to Bosola

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‘were I a man I’d beat that counterfeit face into thy other’

48
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the Duchess fish

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‘our value never can be truly known till in the fisher’s basket we be shown’

49
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Duchess takes her imprisonment…

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‘nobly’

50
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The Duchess’ crime

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‘you were too much i’th’light’

51
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the Duchess thinks the world is a…

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‘tedious theatre’

52
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Duchess asserts authority

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‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’

53
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Duchess maternal

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‘giv’st my little boy some syrup for his cold, and let the girl say her prayers’

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Bosola condemns Ferdinand and the Cardinal

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‘a pair of hearts that are hollow graves, rotten, and rotting others’

55
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Bosola awakening

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‘I am angry with myself now that I wake’

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Bosola crying

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‘where were these penitent fountains while she was living?’

57
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Julia manipulating the Cardinal

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‘wind my tongue about his heart like a skein of silk’

58
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Cured

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‘black deeds must be cured with death’

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the Cardinal guilt

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‘how tedious is a guilty conscience’

60
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Bosola balance

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‘when thou kill’dst thy sister thou took’st from Justice her most equal balance’

61
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Bosola revenge

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‘revenge for the Duchess of Malfi’

62
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the Duchess suicide

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‘I’ll fast myself to death’

The Merchant and Malfi (6 decks)

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