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'Tis Pity Flashcards

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1
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opening line of the play

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Dispute no more in this

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2
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description of G’s soul

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burdened soul

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3
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description of G’s mind/ heart

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the storehouse of my thoughts and heart

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G’s justification of being allowed to love A

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Must I not do what all men else may - love?

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Friar’s cure for G’s sins

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Repentance, son, and sorrow for this sin

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Friar’s reaction to G’s love for A

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Hast thou left the schools/ Of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?

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7
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Grimaldi’s insult to Vasques

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Thou art no equal match for me

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Vasques’ insult to Grimaldi

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thou poor shadow of a soldier

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Putana’s opinion of Soranzo

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Liberal, that I know […] and a man sure

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10
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Bergetto’s childish language

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mine uncle says

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Putana being suggestive

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They say a fool’s bauble is a lady’s playfellow

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12
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A’s first sight of G

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blessed shape
celestial creature
sad aspect

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A’s descriptions of G’s woeful behaviour

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he beats his breast, and wipes his eyes/ Drowned all in tears

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14
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G being dramatic

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I must speak, or burst

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15
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G’s decision

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I’ll tell her that I love her

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16
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G indicating A is embarrassed

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I hope you need not blush to walk with me

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17
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G’s classic images of love

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The lily and the rose, most sweetly strange,/ Upon your dimpled cheeks do strive for change

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18
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G being pressurising to A

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‘tis my destiny/ That you must either love, or I must die

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19
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G’s view of him and A as brother and sister

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[they] share one beauty to a double soul

20
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A’s description of her heart

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My captive heart had long ago resolved

21
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A’s confession of love

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I blush to tell thee (but I’ll tell thee now),/ For every sigh that thou hast spent for me,/ I have sighed ten; for every tear shed twenty

22
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Giovanni’s opinion of the love-test

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I would not change this minute for Elysium

23
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Bergetto’s childishness

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[he] said he loved her almost as well as he loved parmesan

24
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G’s opinion of virginity

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this pretty toy called maidenhead/ So strange a loss, when, being lost, ‘tis nothing,/ And you are still the same

25
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P’s reaction to G and A sleeping together

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Nay, what a paradise of joy have you passed under!

26
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H looking down on A

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My birth was nobler

27
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S’s insult to H

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thou hast digressed from honest shame

28
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R plotting against S

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Soranzo is the man that hath her heart
…
I’ll provide a poison/ To dip your rapier’s point in

29
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Friar’s reaction to G’s continued love for A

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Thou hast told a tale whose every word/ Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul
[...]
But Heaven is angry
...
thou'rt too far sold to hell
30
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G blaming the Friar

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It is a principle, which you have taught

31
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A mocks S

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S: Did you but see my heart, then you would swear -
A: That you were dead

32
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S’s feelings about A

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I’m sick, and sick to th’ heart

33
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A’s opinion of S’s looks

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if mine eyes/ Could have picked out a man amongst all those/ That sued to me, to make a husband of,/ You should have been that man

34
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A’s promise to marry S

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It shall be you or nothing

35
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Grimaldi being cunning

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Where merit cannot sway, policy must

36
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what Philotis gives to Bergetto

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sweetmeats, or dainty devices

37
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Bergetto’s innocence

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I have a monstrous swelling about my stomach

38
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when Bergetto gets stabbed

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O, I am going the wrong way sure, my belly aches so!

39
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the Cardinal’s description of Grimaldi

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He is no common ma, but nobly born

40
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the Friar foreshadowing the reveal of the pregnancy

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Long prosper in this day

41
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an indication that A isn’t happy to be marrying S

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Cheer up, my love

42
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G’s reaction at A marrying S

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to see my love/ Clipped by another, I would dare confusion/ And stand the horror of ten thousand deaths

43
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Hippolita foreshadowing the ending

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may thy bed/ Of marriage be a rack unto thy heart

44
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S saying G didn’t love A like he did

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Well he might lust, but never loved like me

45
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S wanting revenge

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all my blood/ Is fired in swift revenge

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