The Duchess

Question 1

All discord, without

Answer 1

this circumference, is only to be pitied and not feared

Question 2

The church enjoins fasting:

Answer 2

i’ll starve myself to death

Question 3

Raise yourself,

Answer 3

or if you please, my hand to help you

Question 4

I have seen children

Answer 4

oft eat sweet meats thus as fearful to devour them too soon

Question 5

That’s the greatest torture

Answer 5

souls feel in hell, in hell: that they must live and cannot die

Question 6

Diamonds are of the most value,

Answer 6

they say, that have passed through the most jewellers hands

Question 7

i thank him: nothing but

Answer 7

wise and folly can keep me in my right wits, reason and silence make me stark mad

Question 8

th’heaven over my head seems

Answer 8

made of molten brass, the earth of flaming sulphur, yet i am not mad

Question 9

necessity makes me

Answer 9

suffer constantly. and custom makes it easy

Question 10

i am

Answer 10

Duchess of Malfi still

Question 11

lay a naked

Answer 11

sword between us, keep us chaste

Question 12

you violate the

Answer 12

sacrament o’th’church shall make you howl in hell for it (to ferdinand)

Question 13

what pleasure

Answer 13

can two lovers find in sleep?