Second section Flashcards
Seduction scene
good lord
No my good lord, Diana
Honest
She then was honest
mother-duty
No,
My mother did duty - such, my lord, as you owe to your wife.
serve you-roses-mock-bareness
Ay. so you serve us
Till we serve you. But when you have our roses,
you barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves
and mock us with your bareness.
Oaths-Vow-Holy-Witness
;Tis not the many oaths that make the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vowed true.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the high’st to witness. then pray you, tell me,/
Jove’s-ill-against him-unsealed
If I should swear by Jove’s great attributes
I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths
when I did love you ill? this has no holding
to swear by him whom I protest to love
that I will work against him. Therefore your oaths
are words, and poor conditions but unsealed,
at least in my opinion.
snare-ring
I see that men may rope’s in such a snare
that we’ll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.
will-not?
Will you not, my lord?
honor=ring-ancestors-obloquy-wisdom-honor-vain assault
Mine honor’s such a ring.
My chastity’s the jewel of our house,
bequeathed down from many ancestors
which were the greatest obliquy i’ th’ world
in me to lose. thus your own proper wisdom
brings in the champion honor on my part
against your vain assault.
chamber-hear-maiden bed-hour-ring-delivered
When midnight comes, I charge you in the band of truth
when you have conquered my yet maiden bed,
remain there but an hour, nor speak to me
my reasons are most strong, and you shall know them
when back again this ring shall be delivered.
another ring-token-fail not-wife
And on your finger in the night I’ll put
another ring, that what in time proceeds
May token to the future our past deeds.
Adieu till then; then, fail not. you have won
a wife of me, though there my hope be done.
heaven
for which live long to thank both heaven and me!
you may so in the end.
mother-say-sworn-wifes dead-buried-die a maid-disguise-cozen
my mother told me just how he would woo
as if she sat in’s heart. She says all men
have the like oaths. he had sworn to marry me
when his wife’s dead. therefore I’ll lie with him
when I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,
Marry that I will, I live and die a maid.
Only, in this disguise I think ‘t no sin
to cozen him that would unjustly win.
