Measure for Measure Flashcards
Quotes
Mercy and mortality…
Mortality and mercy in Vienna
Live in thy tongue and heart:
Now, good my lord… Angelo
Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my metal, Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamp’d upon it
(Matthew 7:1-2).
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with that judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure you meet, it shall be measured unto you again.”
Thus can the demigod… Claudio
Thus can the demigod, Authority,
Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven: on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, so; yet still ’tis just.
Governs Lors Angelo… Lucio
Governs Lord Angelo, a man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense;
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profits of the mind: study and fast.
Ay, but yet… Escalus
Ay, but yet
Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death.
You may not so extenuate his offense… Angelo
You may not so extenuate his offense
For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
When I, that censure him, do so offend,
Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,
And nothing come in partial.
‘This one thing to be tempted… Angelo
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall.
Because authority, though it err like others.. Isabella
Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ th’ top.
Go to your bosom,
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That’s like my brother’s fault.
If it confess
A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother’s life.
O cunning enemy… Angelo
O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook!
Might there not be a charity… Angelo
Might there not be a charity in sin To save this brother’s life?
Better it were a brother died at once… Isabella
Better it were a brother died at once,
Than that a sister, by redeeming him, Should die forever.
Say what you can… Angelo
Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true.
O, we’re it but my life… Isabella
O, were it but my life,
I’d throw it down for your deliverance As frankly as a pin.
Ay, but to die… Claudio
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
The weariest and most loathed.. Claudio
The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
Why, what a ruthless thing… Lucio
Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a man!
Twice treble shame… Vincentio
Twice treble shame on Angelo,
To weed my vice, and let his grow! O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all… Vincentio
Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all. He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together ’tis no sin,
The very mercy of the law cries out… Vincentio
The very mercy of the law cries out
Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
“An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!”
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.
