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Volpone quotes 2 Flashcards

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Volpone suggests that gold can be evilssets a precedence for the whole play

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“Riches…canst do naught, and yet mak’st men do all things”

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Hell is worth heaven with gold

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even hell, with thee to boot, Is made worth heaven!”

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What virtues does gold posses

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“Thou art virtue, fame,Honour, and all things else!”what he lacks, what Celia has and what he wishes to destroy in her

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What line is a direct perversion of religious doctrine

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Mos: “Riches are in fortune a greater good than wisdom is in nature”The bible states that acquisition of wisdom is more valuable than that of welath

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What does Volpone care more about than the wealth

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“I glory more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the GLAD possession”- he then gives a list of things he does not do to gain wealth no x9 which involve work “I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares; fat no beasts” this is like the golden age

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Mosca on who Volpone does not con

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“devour Soft prodigals” (yung men with too much money)”Tear forth the fathers of poor families Out of their beds” (this is what they claim happens to Corbaccio later)”your sweet nature doth abhor these courses)

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Mosca manipulates Volpone into giving him money

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  • the thresher who does not eat any of his grain, the merchant who fills his vaults with rich wines but ill not tasteyou “dare give, now, From that bright heap, to me, your poor observer”(now shows him to be commanding, poor observer shows him to humiliate himself)
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Who does Volpone con

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those that excpect him to die “which they expect each greedy minute”“covetous”“my birds of prey that think me turning carcass”

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Melodrama mocking Voltore

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“I feel me going uh!uh!uh!uh!I am sailing to my port- Uh!uh!uh!uh!”

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Mosca convinces Corvino that everything is his

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“I am a man that have not done your love the worst offices”“your…keys,coffers,caskets,jewls, plate and moneys, am your steward, your goods” your x 7

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Voltore shows his excpecional greed

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after hearing the list of things that are his he asks”But am I sole heir?”

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Mosca mocks the lawyer’s profession

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“Give forked counsel; take provoking goldOn either hand, and put it up (pocket it)”their tongue “would not wag, nor scarce lie still, without a fee” (lie is a pun)

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Mosca says Voltore will get rich but it sounds disgusting

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“When you do come to swim in golden lard”

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After Voltore’s departure there is Corbaccio’s knocking. Mosca shows he is orchestrating events

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“keep you still, sir”“Betake you to your silence and your sleep”

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Corbaccio’s deafness

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M: “no amends” (he’s not getting better)C: “WHat? Mends he?”your physician should never be his heir”“Not I his heir?”MOsca says he will put his bag of gold sequins in a bowl “Aye, do, do, do” this will recover him “yes, do, do, do” I think it not best to recover him”oh, no, no, no”

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Mosca gets Corbaccio to agree that Physicians are bad

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“I have brought him an opiate here, from mine own doctor-“ —–>”It is true, they kill, With as much licence as a judge”

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Corbaccio is shown to be gruesome

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Mosca gievs gruesome descriptions of the deterioration of Volpone’s situation after each one Corbaccio responds “Good” when he is “sure I shall outlast him” he says “Excellent, excellent”

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Volpone addresses his gold

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“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!Open the shrine that I may see my saint”“Hail the world’s soul, and mine” (blasphemous, shows a lack of human relationships)(anima mundi, the life force that moves the world)”Show’st like a flame by night” (hyperbole poets used to describe their mistresses, this is a reverse of love and religion)”let me kiss with adoration”“sacred treasure” “blessed room”

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Mosca’s aside when he reveals that he doesn’t actually plan to support Bonario

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Corbaccio says he does not doubt to be a father to himMosca replies “Nor I, to gull my brother of his blessing”(Bible, Jacob tricks Esan from his brother’s blessing)

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Volpone is affectionate to Mosca

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“good rascal, let me kiss thee”

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hates Corbaccio’s age

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hopes he may with charms, like Aeson, have his youth restored; and with these thoughts so battens, as if fate would be as easily cheated on as he”

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Mosca convinces Corvino to insult Volpone(shows him to be a coward)

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“nay help sir” “Excellent sir speak out” “Tis good! and what his mouth?” he starts of sheepishly His cheeks like “an old smoked wall”“His nose is like a common sewer, still running”and Mosca offers to suffocate him “Do as you will, but I’ll be gone”

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Mosca calls himself Corvino’s creature

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“Am not I here? Whom you have Made? your creature?That owe my being to you?

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How does Mosca get Corvino to leave

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THat of all his fortunes Mosca will not share in “your gallant wife”

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HOw does MOsca sell CElia

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All Appearance based”skin is whiter than a swan, all over! Than silver, snow, or lilies!”“A soft lip, would temp you to eternity of kissing!”“Flesh that melteth in the touch to blood”culminates to “lovely as your gold!”

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HOw does MOsca tempt Volpone about Celia

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“She’s kept as warily as is your gold”“There is a guard of ten spies thick upon her”

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PEregrin on Sir Pol’s ridiculousness

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“Ths Sir Pol will be ignorant of nothing”

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Volpone sells his medecine

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“this is the physician, this the medecine; this counsels, this cures; this gives the direction, this works the effect”

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What does Volpone’s long description of his speech signify

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he must do his job well, he will only be satisfied with a good performancehe slowly reduced his price as Peregrine guesssed

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How Volpone tries to sell the medecine to Celia

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“powder that made Venus a goddess …that kept her perpetually young”

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Politic on mountebanks

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“They are the only knowing men in Europe”

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Volpone loves Celia

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“I cannot live, except thou help me, Mosca”

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Mosca asks if theres hope for Celia

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M “I will not bid you despair of aught within a human compass”V “there spoke my better angel”Volpone then proceeds to say all his jewls and wealth “Employ them how you wilt”

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Mosca’s response to “I did it well”

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“I would escape your epilogue” (being beaten by Corvino or is he talking about his bragging)”I have not the time to flatter you, we’ll part;And as I prosper, so applaud my art”

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Corvino is embarrassed by Celia

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“Death of mine honour, wit the city’s fool?”

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Corvino’s threats to CElia

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“the murder of father, mother, brother, all thy race, should follow as the subject of my justice!”

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Celia responds respectfully to Corvine

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“Good sir, have patience!”

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The only place Celia goes

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is to “the church”

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Corvino thinks Celia is like him

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“were you enamoured on his copper rings? His saffron jewel”“thou shalt have jewels, gowns, attires”

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Mosca praises himself in his long soliloque

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“I fear I shall begin to grow in love with my dear self”“I could skip out of my skin, now, like a subtle snake”“your parasite Is a most precious thing, dropped from above” not bred “here on earth”“the wise world is little else in nature but parasites or sub-parasites”“be here, and there, and here, and yonder, all at once” (omnipotence)”change a visor swifter than a thought!”

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MOsca’s shamelessness is shown when he promises he would not do things

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Dividing family and friends, betraying counsels, lying and sycophancy, corrupted chastity, and love myself “le me here perish in all hope of goodness”

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Lady Politic on poets

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“I have read them all”“AretineOnly, his pictures are a little obscene” (he wrote his Sonnets of Lust to the drawings of Giulio Romano, she has a lack of knowledge)

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Corvino asks Celia to respect his venture about sleeping with Volpone, honour talk

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“Before your honour?”“Honour? Tut, a breath; There’s no such thing in nature- a mere term invented to awe fools” (he is the fool)(this is all he previously cared aboutc: “What spirit Is this hath entered him?Later on “Will you disgrace me thus?to Mosca: “if she would but speak to him, and save my reputation”

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Celia refuses to sleep with Volpone “Sir, kill me rather. I will take down poison, eat burning coals”Corvino attempts a different method

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“I will buy some slave,Whom I will kill, and bind thee to him, alive;”(rape of lucretia, saw the fall of the Taquins, however, whereas Lucretia kills herself, Celia says “sir, what you please, you may; I am your martyr”

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Celia’s opinion on her beauty

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“punish that unhappy crime of nature, which you miscall my beauty”

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MOsca suggests suicide

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“let’s die like Romans,since we have lived like Grecians”

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Mosca cons them all at once

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Corvino thinks Voltore’s pleading will make him co-heir”we will but use his tongue”To Corbaccio “Do not you smile to see this buffalo” “only you…shall enjoy the crop of all”TO VOltore “Worshipful Sir, MErcury sit upon your thundering tongue or the French Hercules, and make your language As conquering as his club”

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Voltore’s speech

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about Bonario “So much more full of danger is his vice,That can beguile so, under shade of virtue” (like the serpent)”parricide” “confederacy” placed at the endings of alternate lines”your fatherhoods”‘to such a father should have so foul, felonious intent”

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Mosca convinces Voltore that he’s working for him

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convinces Corbaccio to pay 6 sequins rather than 2”you see, sir, how I work onto your ends”

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Why does Volpone think Celia wont sleep with him when she says “Think you virtuous”

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“Think me cold, Frozen, and impotent, and so report me?”shows what he cares aboutShows what he thinks virtue isshows his fear of ageshows his lack of understanding of her virtue

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Volpone has been afraid, after he drinks

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“many of these fears would put me into some villainous disease” (what he cares aboutdrinks “I shall conquer”

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Mosca is concerned about Volpone (is he looosing his nerve)

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How now, sir?…Are we recovered?” in a set of 6 questions”This is our masterpiece, we cannot think to go beyond this”“seemed to me you sweat, sir”“confess, sir, were you not daunted?”

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Volpone does not care about the innocent anymore when Mosca says “gull the court”

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“and quite divert the torrent upon the innocent”

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Mosca says that “too much light blinds ‘em” “so possessed, and stuffed with his own hopes” that they will not see the corruption and twisted nature

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“Like a temptation of the devil” indeed he is the devil now

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Mosca mocks Corbaccio

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questions him of all his sins”Go home, and die, and stink” (die and stink are stressed)”Go, go, stink!” 9(almost a mollosus, but not in pentametre)

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Mosca mocks Corvino

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“do not you know I know you an ass?”Cockold “only in title” (he cares only about his honour)

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Mosca mocks Voltore

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if he has any “suits” he “will make bold with your obstreperous (excessively noisy) aid”

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Mosca betrays Volpone

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“I’ll make him languish in his BORROWED case”“I have the keys, and am possessed”“I’ll bury him, or gain by him. I’m his heir” (he doesn’t understand the concept of being an heir)

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Mosca mocks Corvino’s name

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“should not have sung your shame and dropped you cheese, to let the Fox laugh at your emptiness”

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4th Avoccato’s concern for Offending Mosca, classist

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“WE have done ill…To send for him, if he be heir”“A fit match for my daughter”2nd “disrobe that parasite”

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The punishment

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M: “Then live perpetual prisoner in our galleys”“Volpone, By blood and rank a gentleman, canst not fall Under like censure”

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Avvocato describes the mischiefs at then end (the criminals have become greedy like the legacy hunters)

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“Mischiefs fee like beasts till they be fat, and then they bleed”

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Volpone wont give up his wealth

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“First, I’ll be hanged”

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After Celia scene, Volpone think the safi are come, knocking (Corbaccio)

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MOsca “-Guilty men suspect what they deserve still”

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When Volpone is caught

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“I am unmasked, unspirited, undone, Betrayed to beggary, to infamy”

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