Pl and Malfi blitz Flashcards
Antonio - “royal palace,
of flatt’ring sycophants”
Antonio - “some cursed example poison’t near the head,
death and diseases through the whole land spread”
Bosola - “blackbirds fatten best
in hard weather”
Bosola - “like plum trees that grow
crooked over standing pools”
Ferdinand - “laugh
when I laugh”
Ferdinand “I would then have a mathematical instrument made for her face,
that she might not laugh out of compass”
Antonio - “a most perverse
and turbulent nature” (Ferdinand)
Ferdinand - “note all the
particulars of her haviour”
Ferdinand - “you envy those
that stand above your reach”
Cardinal - “nor any thing without the addition,
honour, sway your high blood”
Duchess - “I’ll never
marry”
Ferdinand - “your darkest actions,
nay, your privat’st thoughts, will come to light”
Cardinal - “the marriage night is
the entrance into some prison”
Ferdinand - “what cannot a neat knave
with a smooth tale make a woman believe?”
Duchess - “one of your eyes is blood-shot,
use my ring to’t”
Antonio - “there is a saucy
and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle”
Duchess - “this godly roof
of yours is too low built”
Duchess - “I have heard
lawyers say..”
Duchess - “plot t’appease my
humorous kindred”
Duchess - “the misery of
us that are born great”
Antonio - “this mole does
undermine me” (Bosola)
Antonio - “The great are like they base, nay, they are the same,
When they seek shameful ways to avoid shame”
Bosola - “She’s oft found
witty, but is never wise”
Cardinal - “you have approved those giddy
and wild turnings in yourself” (Julia)
Cardinal - “You cannot make
me cuckold” (Julia)
Delio - “I would wish you…
my mistress” (Julia)
Delio - “How fearfully shows
his ambition now”(Antonio)
Ferdinand - “Grown a
notorious strumpet”
Ferdinand - “To purge infected blood,
such blood as hers”
Ferdinand - “a bark made of so slight weak
bullrush as is woman”
Cardinal - “there is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed,
so beastly, as does intemperate anger”
Ferdinand - “I’ll find scorpions
to string my whips”
Antonio - “an excellent Feeder
of pedigrees”
Antonio - “The common rabble do
directly say she is a strumpet”
Antonio - “my rule is
only in the night”
Duchess - “I have not gone about in this
to create any new world or custom”
Duchess - “my reputation
is safe”
Ferdinand - “Dost thou know
what reputation is?” (Duchess)
Bosola - “will you make yourself a mercenary herald,
rather to examine men’s pedigrees than virtues?”
Ferdinand - “And ne’er in’s life
looked like a gentleman”
Bosola - “she seems rather to welcome
the end of misery than shun it”
Duchess - “I’ll starve
myself to death”
Duchess - “I account this world a tedious theatre,
for I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will”
Ferdinand - “I would not wish
to see you married”
Cariola - “wild consort
of madmen”
Duchess - “I am chained to
endure all your tyranny”
Duchess - “I am the Duchess
of Malfi still”
Cariola - “villains,
tyrants, murderers!”
Doctor - “a very
pestilent disease” (Ferdinand)
Ferdinand - “when I go to hell,
I mean to carry a bribe”
Cardinal - “thou’rt poisoned
with that book (the Bible)”
Bosola - “the weakest arm is strong enough
that strikes with the sword of justice”
Antonio - “all things have
their ends”
Antonio - “lose all,
or nothing”
Cardinal - “I would pray now,
but the devil takes away my heart”
Bosola - “we are merely the stars’ tennis balls,
struck and banded which way please them”
Ferdinand - “whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
Bosola - “Oh this
gloomy world!”
Delio - “establish this young hopeful
gentleman in’s mother’s right”
Cardinal - “wisdom begins
at the end”
Duchess - “this is flesh and blood,
sir ‘tis not the figure cut in alabaster”
Duchess - “I have so much
obedience in my blood”
Cardinal - “sorrow is held
the eldest child of sin”
‘Compassing
the earth’
‘Meditated fraud
and malice’
‘Nor hope to be myself
less miserable / By what I seek”
‘My relentless
thoughts’ (Satan)
‘Servitude
inglorious’ (Satan)
‘Spite then with
spite is best repaid’
“Danced round by
other heavens that shine” - geocentric
‘Fittest imp
of fraud’
‘Subtlest
beast’
‘Curled many a wanton wreath
in sight of Eve, to lure her eye’
