Measure Quotes Act 1 Flashcards
1.1 Summary:
The Duke calls Angelo to announce his departure; appoints him as the temporary ruler of Vienna. Angelo is hesitant, asks the Duke to test his skill - but the Duke declines and leaves.
1.2 Summary:
We are introduced to the sub-plot: Lucio is joking with 2 ‘gentlemen’ about STDS, etc, and they debate about morality and human nature. Mistress Overdone announces that Claudio is being sent to prison for fornication, and is to be executed, whilst Pompey announces that the brothels will be “pulled down”.
Claudio asks why he’s being taken to prison - Lucio arrives and asks why too, “too much liberty”, Claudio tells them about his and Juliet’s marriage contract. They decide to appeal to Isabella, his sister.
1.3 Summary:
The Duke goes to the monastery to speak to Friar Thomas, and he asks the Friar to teach him how to be one. The Duke explains the law’s state, and the friar criticises him for this, and he acknowledges his faults. He is then given a disguise.
1.4 Summary:
Isabella is at a convent, St Clares, about to be sworn in, but Lucio approaches - Isabella greets him, he questions where Claudio’s sister is, and she reveals that it is her. Lucio explains Claudio’s predicament, Isabella doesn’t believe him but Lucio swears it to be true. Isabella asks why they cannot just marry, then agrees to help pardon her brother by appealing to Angelo.
“Mortality and mercy in Vienna / Live in thy tongue and heart.” (1.1)
“Heaven doth with us as we with torches do / Not light them for themselves” (1.1)
“What doth befall you here / to the hopeful execution” (1.1)
“So to enforce or qualify the laws / As to your soul seems good” (1.1)
“To one that can my part in him advertise” (1.1)
“I am not yet instructed” / “‘Tis so with me” (1.1)
“Thou conclud’st like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the ten commandments but scraped one out of the table” (1.2)
“Grace is grace, despite of all controversy” (1.2)
“Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes!” (1.2)
“Claudio to prison? ‘Tis not so”. (1.2)
“Groping for trouts in a peculiar river” / “no, but there’s a woman with maid by him” (1.2)
“They shall stand for seed; they had gone down too, but that a wise burgher put in for them” (1.2)
“worn your eyes almost out in the service” (1.2)
“why dost thou show me thus to the world?” (1.2)
“Thus can the demi-god authority / Make us pay down for our offences by weight” (1.2)
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty” / “when we drink, we die”. (1.2)
“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment” (1.2)
“she is fast my wife” / “denunciation lack” (1.2)
“‘Tis surely for a name” / “A horse whereon the governor doth ride” / “lets it straight feel the spur” (1.2)
“youth” / “speechless dialect such as move men” / “persuade” (1.2)
“most biting laws” / “the needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds” (1.3)
“like an o’ergrown lion in a cave that goes not out to prey” (1.3)
“And liberty plucks justice by the nose” / “The baby beats the nurse” (1.3)
“Lord Angelo is precise” (1.3)
“Hence shall we see / If power change purpose, what our seemers be” (1.3)
“That his blood flows, or that his appetite is more to bread than stone” (1.3)
“For what I bid them do; for what we bid this be done / When evil deeds have their permissive pass / and not the punishment”. (1.3)
“And have you nuns no farther privileges?” / “But rather wishing a more strict restraint” (1.4)
“Tongue far from heart / play with all virgins so” / “You do blaspheme the good in mocking me” (1.4)
“O let him marry her!” (1.4)
“A man whose blood Is very snow-broth” / “one who never feels the wanton stings and motions of the sense” (1.4)
“Doth rebate and blunt his natural edge / with profits of the mind” (1.4)
“As mice by lions” / “To make him an example”. (1.4)
“Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win”
“Men give like Gods; but when they weep and kneel / All their petitions are as freely theirs as they themselves would owe them” (1.4)
