Twelfth Night Flashcards
Viola, disguise
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much
Fabian, joke to the audience
If this were played upon a stage now, I could
condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Maria, to Sir Topaz, Diguise
Thou mightst have done this without thy beard / and gown. He sees thee not
Orsino, love
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
Orsino, Love for Olivia
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence.
Viola and her love for Orsno
I’ll do my best
To woo your lady: (Aside). Yet a barful strife!
Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.
Olivia falls in love
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit
Do give thee five-fold blazon. Not too fast! Soft, soft!
Unless the master were the man. How now?
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Malvolio, ambition
To be Count Malvolio.
Orsino, love for Cesario or Viola? Gender
Cesario, come,
For so you shall be while you are a man.
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen.
Orsino describes Cesario, Gender
That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe / Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
Orsino, Love, Gender
There is no woman’s sides / Can bide the beating of so strong a passion / As love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
Viola, love confession
My father had a daughter loved a man
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
Malvolio, ambition
There is example for ‘t. The lady of the
Strachy married the yeoman of the wardrobe.
Orsino
Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wrack.
