Measure for Measure

Question 1

test of my metal

Answer 1

Let there be some more test made of my metal, before so noble and so great a figure be stamp’d upon it.

Question 2

demigod authority

Answer 2

Thus can the demigod, Authority, make us pay down for our offence by weight.

Question 3

fourteen years

Answer 3

fourteen years we have let slip… as fond father, having bound up the threat’ning twigs of birch, only stick it in their children’s sight for terror, not to use… the baby beats the nurse and athwart goes all decorum

Question 4

Lord Angelo is…

Answer 4

Lord Angelo is precise

Question 5

O, let him…

Answer 5

O, let him marry her

Question 6

Lord Angelo, a man…

Answer 6

Lord Angelo, a man whose blood is very snowbroth

Question 7

We must not make…

Answer 7

We must not make a scarecrow of the law

Question 8

Ay, but yet let us be keen…

Answer 8

Ay, but yet let us be keen, and rather cut a little than fall and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman whom I would save had a most noble father.

Question 9

The jury passing on the prisoner’s life…

Answer 9

The jury passing on the prisoner’s life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Question 10

The jewel that we find…

Answer 10

The jewel that we find, we stoop and take’t.

Question 11

When I that censure do so…

Answer 11

When I that censure do so offend, let mine own judgement pattern out my death.

Question 12

Does your worship mean…

Answer 12

Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?

Question 13

There is a vice…

Answer 13

There is a vice that most I do abhor, and most desire should meet the blow of justice

Question 14

I do beseech you let

Answer 14

I do beseech you let it be his fault, and not my brother.

Question 15

Tomorrow? O,

Answer 15

Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden. Spare him, spare him!

Question 16

She speaks, and ‘tis such…

Answer 16

She speaks, and ‘tis such sense that my sense breeds with it

Question 17

Hark, how I’ll bribe

Answer 17

Hark, how I’ll bribe you… with true prayers

Question 18

Dost thou desire her…

Answer 18

Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?

Question 19

Never could the strumpet…

Answer 19

Never could the strumpet with all her double vigour, art and nature, once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid subdues me quite

Question 20

your most offenceful act

Answer 20

your most offenceful act was mutually committed

Question 21

my tongue…

Answer 21

my tongue anchors on Isabel… I take pride

Question 22

I had rather give…

Answer 22

I had rather give my body than my soul

Question 23

Might there not be a charity…

Answer 23

Might there not be a charity in sin to save this brother’s life?

Question 24

were I under the terms of death…

Answer 24

were I under the terms of death, th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, and strip myself to death…yield my body up to shame

Question 25

Better it were...

Answer 25

Better it were a brother died at once, than a sister, by redeeming him, should die forever

Question 26

I give my sensual...

Answer 26

I give my sensual race the rein; fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, lay by all niceties and prolixious blushes

Question 27

O, were it but

Answer 27

O, were it but my life, I'd throw it down for your deliverance as frankly as a pin

Question 28

Ay, but to die...

Answer 28

Ay, but to die and go we know not where... imprisonment... is a paradise to what we fear of death

Question 29

it is impossible to

Answer 29

it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down

Question 30

Why, what a ruthless thing

Answer 30

Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a man.

Question 31

Some report

Answer 31

Some report a sea-maid spawned him. Some that he was begot between two stockfishes

Question 32

Shame to him, whose cruel

Answer 32

Shame to him, whose cruel striking kills for faults of his own liking: twice treble shame on Angelo

Question 33

Little have you to say when

Answer 33

Little have you to say when you depart from him, but soft and low 'remember now my brother'

Question 34

He is your husband on a

Answer 34

He is your husband on a pre-contract; To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin

Question 35

I will keep her...

Answer 35

I will keep her ignorant of her good to make her heavenly comforts of despair

Question 36

But that her tender shame...

Answer 36

But that her tender shame will proclaim against her maiden loss... for my authority bears a credent bulk that no particular scandal once can touch

Question 37

He should have lived...

Answer 37

He should have lived... might in the times to come have ta'en revenge by so receiving a dishonoured life with ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived.

Question 38

Give me justice x4. That Angelo's...

Answer 38

Give me justice x4. That Angelo's foresworn, is it not strange? That Angelo's a murderer, is't not strange? That Angelo is an adulterous theif, an hypocrite, a virgin-violator, is it not strange and strange?

Question 39

By mine honesty, if she be mad

Answer 39

By mine honesty, if she be mad, as I believe no other, her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.

Question 40

Come sir, come sir, come sir! Faugh sir

Answer 40

Come sir, come sir, come sir! Faugh sir, why you baldpated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face and be hanged an hour. Will't not off?

Question 41

Immediate sentence

Answer 41

Immediate sentence, then, and sequent death is all the grace I beg

Question 42

By this Lord Angelo perceives

Answer 42

By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe - methinks I see a quickening in his eye.

Question 43

Marrying a punk

Answer 43

Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death, whipping and hanging.