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The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice i.i The Duke

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Justice

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The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice i.i The Duke

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Justice

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The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice you’re as pregnant in As art and practise hath enriched any That we remember i.i The Duke

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Justice, sexual imagery

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Lent him our terror, dress’d him with our love, And given his deputation all the organs Of our own power i.i The Duke

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Power (and how power corrupts), Justice and punishment, (terror), mercy (love)

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Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, ‘twere all alike As if we had them not i.i The Duke to Angelo

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Appearance vs reality, public vs private, virtue vs vice

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Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart i.i The Duke to Angelo

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Justice vs morality, virtue vs vice

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

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Power, authority

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Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint? CLAUDIO From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: i.ii Lucio and Angelo

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Liberty vs restriction, virtue vs vice

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the morality of imprisonment i.ii Lucio

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Liberty vs constraint, virtue vs vice

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Or whether that the body public be A horse whereon the governor doth ride, Who, newly in the seat, that it may know He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; i.ii Claudio about Angelo

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Power and how power corrupts, justice vs mercy

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the dribbling dart of love i.iii The Duke

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Desire vs absitnence

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We have strict statutes and most biting laws. The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, i.iii The Duke

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Justice and punishment vs mercy, liberty vs constraint

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Now, as fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, Only to stick it in their children’s sight For terror, not to use, i.iii The Duke

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Justice and punishment vs mercy, liberty vs constraint

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Liberty plucks Justice by the nose i.iii The Duke

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Justice and punishment vs mercy

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Your brother and his lover have embraced: As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Liberty vs constraint, desire vs abstinence

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That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Desire vs abstinence, sex as a natural part of human nature that can’t be legislated out of existence

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even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Desire vs abstinence, sex as a natural part of human nature that can’t be legislated out of existence

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a man whose blood Is very snow-broth i.iv Lucio about Angelo

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Desire vs abstinence, liberty vs constraint, emotion vs reason

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. ii.i Angelo

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Justice and punishment vs mercy, power

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‘Tis very pregnant, The jewel that we find, we stoop and take’t Because we see it; but what we do not see We tread upon, and never think of it. ii.i Angelo

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Pragmatic justice vs idealised justice (mercy), equality in how we deal with crime and punishment (measure for measure)

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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. ii.i Escalus

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Equality in how we deal with crime and punishment (measure for measure), virtue vs vice

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For which I would not plead, but that I must; For which I must not plead, but that I am At war ‘twixt will and will not. ii.ii Isabella

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Justice vs mercy

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There is a vice that most I do abhor, And most desire should meet the blow of justice; ii.ii Isabella

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Virtue vs vice, justice vs mercy

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No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. ii.ii Isabella

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Power, justice vs mercy, compassion vs strength

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Even for our kitchens We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves? ii.ii Isabella

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Justice vs mercy, compassion vs strength

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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept: ii.ii Angelo

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Justice vs mercy, power, liberty vs constraint

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now ‘tis awake Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet, Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils, Either new, or by remissness new-conceived, And so in progress to be hatch’d and born, Are now to have no successive degrees, But, ere they live, to end. ii.ii Angelo

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Justice vs mercy, power, liberty vs constraint

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We cannot weigh our brother with ourself: ii.ii Isabella

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Justice vs mercy, equality in how we deal with crime and punishment (measure for measure)

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She speaks, and ‘tis Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well. ii.ii Angelo

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Reason vs emotion, desire vs restraint

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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman’s lightness? ii.ii Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, reason vs emotion, desire vs constraint

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O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook! ii.ii Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, liberty vs constraint

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Heaven hath my empty words; Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Anchors on Isabel ii.iv Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, appearance vs reality

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Heaven in my mouth, As if I did but only chew his name; And in my heart the strong and swelling evil Of my conception. ii.iv Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, appearance vs reality, liberty vs constraint

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Let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn ii.iv Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, appearance vs reality

35
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Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven’s image In stamps that are forbid ii.iv Angelo

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Sex as a natural part of human nature that can’t be legislated away, liberty vs constraint, desire vs abstinence

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to redeem him, Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness As she that he hath stain’d? ii.iv Angelo

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Virtue vs vice, justice vs mercy, power

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lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption. ii.iv Isabella

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Justice vs mercy, virtue vs vice

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we are soft as our complexions are, ii.iv Isabella

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Power vs powerlessness, strength vs temptation

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now I give my sensual race the rein: Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite; Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will; ii.iv Angelo

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Desire vs abstinence, virtue vs vice

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Bidding the law make court’sy to their will: Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, ii.iv Isabella

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Power vs powerlessness, virtue vs vice

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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, iii.i Isabella

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Justice vs mercy

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If you’ll implore it, that will free your life, But fetter you till death. iii.i Isabella

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Virtue vs vice, justice vs mercy, liberty vs constraint

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That I should do what I abhor to name iii.i Isabella

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Virtue vs vice

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Sweet sister, let me live: What sin you do to save a brother’s life, Nature dispenses with the deed so far That it becomes a virtue iii.i Isabella

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Liberty vs constraint, virtue vs vice

45
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good iii.i The Duke

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Appearance vs reality - no difference between the two in this case (unusual in the context of the play)

46
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A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him: iii.ii Lucio

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Virtue vs vice

47
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O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! iii.ii The Duke about Angelo

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appearance vs reality

48
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‘Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

The Duke Act I Sc IV

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Virtue vs vice

49
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Come, let us go:
Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.

The Duke Act IV Sc I

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Link to Lucio’s horticultural metaphor about Juliet’s pregnancy - sex as a natural part of human existence

50
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Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn
the scale.

Provost Act IV Sc II

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justice motif (scales)

51
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As fast lock’d up in sleep as guiltless labour

Claudio Act IV Sc II

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Virtue vs vice

52
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When vice makes mercy, mercy’s so extended,

The Duke Act IV Sc II

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Virtue vs vice, justice vs mercy

53
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he hath evermore had the liberty
of the prison

Provost on Barnadine Act IV Sc II

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Liberty vs constraint

54
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I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house
of profession

Pompey Act IV Sc III

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Virtue vs vice

55
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I am directed by you.

Isabella to the Duke Act IV Sc III

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Power

56
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the old fantastical duke of dark corners

Lucio on the Duke Act IV Sc III

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Appearance vs reality

57
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I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Lucio Act IV Sc III

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symbolic of sexuality in the play and the way in which it is impossible to eradicate

58
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His actions
show much like to madness

Angelo Act IV Sc IV

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Appearance vs reality

59
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To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence ‘gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.

The Duke to Angelo Act V

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Metaphor, prison imagery

60
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given me justice, justice, justice, justice!

Isabella Act V

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Repetition, key motif

61
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O worthy duke,
You bid me seek redemption of the devil

Isabella Act V

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Juxtaposition

62
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That Angelo’s forsworn; is it not strange?
That Angelo’s a murderer; is ‘t not strange?
That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;
Is it not strange and strange?

Isabella Act V

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Parallel structure, rhetorical questions

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the wicked’st caitiff on the ground,
May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute
As Angelo

Isabella Act V

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Comparative, appearance vs reality

64
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make the truth appear where it seems hid,
And hide the false seems true

Isabella to the Duke Act V

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Paradox

65
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He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
To his concupiscible intemperate lust,

Isabella Act V

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Metaphor (gift)

66
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if he had so offended,
He would have weigh’d thy brother by himself

The Duke to Isabella Act V

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Metaphor, justice motif

67
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DUKE VINCENTIO

What, are you married?

MARIANA

No, my lord.

DUKE VINCENTIO

Are you a maid?

MARIANA

No, my lord.

DUKE VINCENTIO

A widow, then?

MARIANA

Neither, my lord.

Act V

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Paradox

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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
I am affianced this man’s wife as strongly
As words could make up vows

Mariana Act V

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Similes, parallel structure

69
Q

Let me in safety raise me from my knees
Or else for ever be confixed here,
A marble monument!

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Metaphor, link to Angelo who is described by the Duke as “a marble to her tears”

70
Q

instruments of some more mightier member

Angelo Act V

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Metaphor

71
Q

‘Cucullus non facit monachum:’

Lucio Act V

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Epithet (the hood does not make the monk) - appearances vs reality

72
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women are light at midnight

Lucio Act V

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Paradox, pun

73
Q

Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?

The Duke Act V

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Metaphor, juxtaposition, imagery pertaining to power hierarchies

74
Q

the duke
Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
Dare rack his own

The Duke Act V

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Comparative, dramatic irony, parallel structure

75
Q

I have seen corruption boil and bubble
Till it o’er-run the stew

The Duke Act V

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Metaphor

76
Q

the strong statutes
Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s shop,
As much in mock as mark.

The Duke Act V

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Similes, sibilance, alliteration

77
Q

I love the duke as I love myself.

The Duke Act V Sc I

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Parallel structure

78
Q

When I perceive your grace, like power divine,
Hath look’d upon my passes.

Angelo Act V Sc I

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Simile

79
Q

The very mercy of the law cries out
Most audible

The Duke Act V Sc I

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Metaphor

80
Q

I am sorry, one so learned and so wise
As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear’d,
Should slip so grossly

Escalus Act V Sc I

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Parallel structure, intensifiers

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