Measure for Measure: The Duke

Question 1

Special soul, absence

Answer 1

Duke: We have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply

To Escalus, [1:1,17]

Question 2

Scope, soul

Answer 2

Duke: Your scope is as mine own,
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good.

To Angelo, [1:1,64]

Question 3

Loves the people

Answer 3

Duke: I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes

To Angelo, [1:1,67]

Question 4

Dribbling dart of love

Answer 4

Duke: Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom

To a Friar, [1:3,2]

Question 5

Strict statutes, biting laws

Answer 5

Duke: We have strict statutes and biting laws […]
Which for this fourteen years we have let slip

To the Friar, [1:3,19]

Question 6

Tied-up justice

Answer 6

Friar: It rested in your Grace
To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased.
And it in you more dreadful would have seemed
Than in Lord Angelo.

Duke: I fear too dreadful.
Sigh ‘‘twas my fault to give the people scope,
‘Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them.

[1:3,31]

Question 7

Power and purpose

Answer 7

Duke: Hence shall we see
If power changes purpose, What our seemers be.

To a Friar, [1:3,54]

Question 8

Advising, remedy

Answer 8

Duke: Fasten your ear on my advising, to the love I have in doing good; a remedy presents itself

To Isabella, [3:1,200]

Question 9

Might, greatness

Answer 9

Duke: No might nor greatness in morality
Can censure ‘scape

[3:1,442]

Question 10

Sword of heaven

Answer 10

Duke: He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe:
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue, go. [...]
Craft against vice I must apply. 

[3:1,515]

Question 11

Advice

Answer 11

Mariana: whose advice
Hath often still’d my brawling discomfort

To the Duke, disguised as the Friar, [4:1,8]

Question 12

Consent, entreaty

Answer 12

Duke: It is not my consent, But my entreaty too.

[4:1,67]

Question 13

Present shrift

Answer 13

Duke: I will give him present shrift, and advise him for a better place

[4:1,206]

Question 14

Advise, comfort, pray

Answer 14

Duke (to Barnadine): I am come to advise you, comfort you and pray with you.

[4:3,49]

Question 15

Ignorant

Answer 15

Duke: But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her heavenly comforts of despair,
When it is least expected.

[4:3,108]

Question 16

Offended, weigh’d

Answer 16

Duke: if he had so offended,
He would have weigh’d thy brother by himself
And not have cut him off.

[5:1,113]

Question 17

Brother’s death, heart

Answer 17

(When he reveals himself, he still lies to Isabella about Claudio)

Duke: Your brother’s death, I know, sits at your heart

[5:1,390]

Question 18

Marry her

Answer 18

Duke: Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.

To Angelo, [5:1,378]

Question 19

Measure for Measure!

Answer 19

Duke: An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.

[5:1,410]

Question 20

Say you will be mine

Answer 20

Duke (to Isabella): If he be like your brother, for his sake
Is he pardon’d; and, for your lovely sake,
Give me your hand and say you will be mine.

[5:1,493]

Question 21

Nuptial

Answer 21

Duke: And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish’d,
Let him be whipt and hang’d

To Lucio, [5:1,515]

Question 22

What’s mine is yours

Answer 22

Duke: What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
So, bring us to our place; where we’ll show
What’s yet behind, that’s meet you all should know.

[5:1,540]