Measure for Measure: Lucio

Question 1

Embraced

Answer 1

Lucio: Your brother and his lover have embrac’d
As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time

To Isabella, [1:4,40]

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

Lucio: Assay the power you have.

To Isabella, [1:4,76]

Question 3

Extirp

Answer 3

Lucio (talking about lechery): It is impossible to extirp it quite

[3:1,365]

Question 4

Service

Answer 4

Lucio (about the Duke): He had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service; and that instructed him to mercy

To Friar (Duke in disguise), [3:1,381]

Question 5

Superficial, ignorant

Answer 5

Lucio: A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow

To the Friar (Duke in disguise), [3:1,400]

Question 6

Pale heart

Answer 6

Lucio: O pretty Isabella, I am pale at my heart to see thine eyes so red […]
By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:
if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
at home, he had lived

To Isabella, [4:3,149]

Question 7

Wench with child

Answer 7

Lucio: I was once before him for getting a wench with child.
Duke: Did you such a thing?
Lucio: Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar

[4:4,165]

Question 8

Whore, punk

Answer 8

Lucio: I beseech your highness, do not marry me a whore.
[…] Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging.
Duke: Slandering a prince deserves it.

[5:1,517/525]