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Volpone Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Prologue

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To mix profit with your pleasure

jests to fit his fable

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Volpone Act 1 Scene 1 p1

worships gold

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‘Open the shrine that I may see my saint’

‘sacred treasure in this blessed room.’

‘The price of souls; even hell, …. / Is made worth heaven! ‘

Thou art virtue, fame, / Honour and all things else!

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Volpone and Mosca Act 1 Scene 1 p2

cunning purchase
riches

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Volpone ‘I glory / More in the cunning purchase ….. / Than in the glad possession’

Mosca ‘You know the use of riches, and dare give, now… to me, your poor observer’

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Volpone Act 1 Scene 1 p3

cocker up
no wife

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‘cocker up my genius and live free / To all delights’

‘I have no wife, parent, child, ally’

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Volpone Act 1 Scene 1 p4

cherry

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‘Letting the cherry knock against their lips, /

And draw it by their mouths and back again

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Nano Act 1 Scene 2

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Half-rhyme ‘transmigration’ with ‘fashion’ shows poor taste

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Volpone and Mosca Act 1 Scene 3

Voltore

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Volpone ‘Pray him to come more often’

Volpone ‘Your love / shall not be unanswered’

Mosca ‘swim in golden lard, / Up to the arms in honey

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Mosca and Corbaccio Act 1 Scene 4 p1

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Mosca ‘colour of his flesh like lead’
Corbaccio ‘Tis good’

Corbaccio ‘This makes me young again, a score of years’

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Mosca, Combacio and Volpone Act 1 Scene 4 p2

mine
your worship
oh I shall burst
What a rare

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Corbaccio ‘Mine own project’

Mosca ‘Your worship is a precious ass’

Volpone ‘Oh, I shall burst! / Let out my sides, let out my sides’
Volpone ‘What a rare punishment / Is avarice to itself

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Mosca and Volpone Act 1 Scene 5 p1

weeping
rob churches
bold English

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Corvino ‘‘Las, good gentleman! How pitiful the sight is!’
Mosca ‘the weeping of an heir should still be laughter / Under a visor’

M: ‘stifle with him rarely with a pillow’
C: ‘I pray you, use no violence’
C: ‘Nay, at your discretion’

‘better than rob churches’

‘bold English ……. dare let loose / Their wives to all encounters!’

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Mosca Act 1 Scene 5 p2

Celia

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Blazing star of Italy!’ ‘A beauty ripe as harvest!’

‘Bright as your gold! And lovely as your gold!’

‘She’s kept as warily as is your gold’

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Sir Politic & Peregrine Act 2 Scene 1

spider
ignorant

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‘The spider and the bee oft-times / Suck from one flower’

‘ignorant of nothing’ (about Sir Pol)

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Volpone Act 2 Scene 2 p1

Mountebank

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‘Most noble gentlemen’

Uses classical allusions and rhetorical questions

‘These turdy-facy-nasty-paty-lousy-fartical / rogues’

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Volpone Act 2 Scene 2 p2

Mountebank

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‘six-pence it will cost you’ ‘value of the thing, ….. a / thousand crowns’

‘Lady, I kiss your bounty (to Celia)

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Volpone and Mosca Act 2 Scene 4 p1

angry Cupid
conscience

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‘But angry Cupid, bolting from her eyes, / Hath shot himself into me like a flame’

‘I’m bound in conscience, / …..To your release of torment’

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Volpone and Mosca Act 2 Scene 4 p2

gulled
flatter

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‘But were they gulled / With a belief that I was Scoto?

‘I have not time to flatter you, we’ll part; / And as I prosper, so applaud my art’

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Corvino Act 2 scene 5

strike
backwards

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‘strike / this steel into thee with as many stabs’ as eyes that look on her

‘Have this bawdy light damned up’

‘I will keep thee backwards’

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Corvino Act 2 Scene 6

mine

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‘Mine own free motion’

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Corvino Act 2 Scene 7

blubbering

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‘What, blubbering?’

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Mosca Act 3 Scene 1 p1

I fear
success
skip

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‘I fear I shall begin to grow in love – / With my dear self’

‘Success has made me wanton’

I could skip / Out of my skin, now, like a subtle snake’

21
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Mosca Act 3 Scene 1 p2

Parasite
wise world
belly
mosca selling himself

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‘Your parasite / Is a most precious thing, dropped from above’

‘Almost / All the wise world is little else in nature / But parasites or sub-parasites.’

‘to please the belly and the groin’

‘your fine, elegant rascal’

22
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Bonario Act 3 Scene 2 p1

baseness
St Mark
repent

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B: ‘thy baseness / ….. thy sloth / ….Thy flattery? / Thy means of feeding?

M: ‘St Mark bear witness ‘against you, ‘tis inhuman’

B: ‘I do repent me that I was so harsh’

23
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Mosca Act 3 Scene 2 p2

Bonario irony
Mosca to Bonario suffer

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(aside) ‘This cannot be a personated passion’

‘And I do suffer for you, sir. My heart / Weeps blood, in anguish - ‘

24
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Volpone Act 3 Scene 3

hell
my loathing

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‘second hell’ (arrival of Lady Would-Be)

‘my loathing this / Will quite expel my appetite for the other:’

25
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Lady Would-be Act 3 Scene 4 p1

neck
curl

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‘shows not my neck enough’

‘Is this curl / In his right place?’

26
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Volpone Act 3 scene 4 p2

female grace
The sun

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‘your highest female grace is silence’

‘The sun, the sea will sooner both stand still, / Than her eternal tongue’

27
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Volpone Act 3 Scene 5

wanton

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‘like your wanton gamester at primero’ (waiting for Celia)

28
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Mosca Act 3 Scene 7

horns

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‘Did e‘er man haste so for his / horns’

29
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Corvino Act 3 Scene 7 p1

honour
pious

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‘Honour?…./ There’s no such thing in nature – a mere term / Invented to awe fools’

‘A pious work, mere charity, for physic,’

30
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Celia Act 3 Scene 7 p2

kill me

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‘Sir, kill me rather. I will take down poison, / Eat burning coals, do anything’

31
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Corvino Act 3 Scene 7 p3

rip
disgrace

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‘drag thee hence home by the hair; /
cry thee a strumpet though the streets; rip up / Thy mouth unto thy ears, and slit thy nose’

‘Will you disgrace me thus?

32
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Mosca and Celia Act 3 Scene 7 p4

Mosca What woman can
Celia With such ease

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Mosca
‘What woman can, before her husband? /
Let us depart, and leave her here’

Celia ‘with such ease, / Men dare put off your honours’

33
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Volpone Act 3 Scene 7 p5

Corvino heaven
Corvino paradise

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‘never tasted the true heaven of love’

‘He would have sold his part of paradise for ready money’

34
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Volpone Act 3 Scene 7 p5

flattering Celia like Satan
base husband

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‘Why art thou ‘mazed, to see me thus revived? /
Rather applaud thy beauty’s miracle’

‘Thou hast in place of a base husband found/ A worthy lover;’

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Volpone & Celia Act 3 Scene 7 p5

Volpone heads of parrots
Celia resisting
Volpone does not change tack

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‘The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales, / the brains of peacocks,’

‘I, whose innocence / Is all I can think wealthy, or worth th’enjoying… / Cannot be taken with these sensual baits’

‘Thy baths shall be the juice of Jùly flowers’

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Volpone Act 3 Scene 7 p6

conscience

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Volpone conscience ‘Tis the beggar’s virtue’

37
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Celia Act 3 Scene 7 p7

Celia responses to Volpone
any part
punish
eating leprosy

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Celia
‘If you have…any part that yet sounds man about you’

‘punish that unhappy crime of nature, / Which you miscall my beauty - flay my face’

Asks for Volpone to cause an ‘eating leprosy, / E’en to my bones and marrow’

38
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Volpone and Bonario Act 3 Scene 7

yield
foul
free
fall

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‘Yield or I’ll force thee’

‘foul ravisher, libidinous swine!’
‘Free the forced lady, or thou diest, imposter

‘Fall on me, roof, and bury me in ruin, / Become my grave that wert my shelter. Oh! / I am unmasked, unspirited, undone!
Betrayed to beggary to infamy -

39
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Mosca Act 3 Scene 8

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‘Will you be pleased to hang me? Or cut my throat?’

40
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Lady Would-Be Act 4 Scene 3

Lady Would-Be to Peregrine

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‘Pray you, sir, use me. In faith, / The more you see me, the more I shall conceive, /
You have forgot our quarrel.’

41
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Act 4 Scene 4 Mosca

Is the lie

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Mosca

‘Is the lie / Safely conveyed amongst us?’

42
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Act 4 Scene 5

Voltore on Celia in court
Corbaccio on Bonario
Avvocato on Celia and Bonario

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Voltore on Celia in court
‘This lewd woman’

Corbaccio on Bonario
‘Monster of men…viper’

Avvocato on Celia and Bonario
’’Tis pity two such prodigies should live’

43
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Volpone and Mosca Act 5 Scene 2

Self-congratulation

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Mosca
‘This is our masterpiece. We cannot think to go beyond this’

Volpone
‘rare a music out of discords’

Volpone
‘Like a temptation of the devil’

44
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Act 5 Scene 5 - Celia on heaven

Act 5 Scene 7 p1 - Bonario on heaven

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Celia
‘O heav’n, how just thou art!’

Bonario
Heaven could not long let such gross crimes be hid’

45
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Act 5 Scene 7 p2
Corbaccio on Bonario

Avocatore on Mosca - interventions undermining court

Mosca and Volpone - hubris

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Corbaccio says Bonario has a ‘forked tongue’ (similar to Mosca to Voltore on ‘forked counsel of lawyers)

Avocatore
‘A proper man’, ‘A fit match for my daughter’, ‘Sir, are you married’

Mosca - ‘Will you gi’ me half?, Volpone - ‘First, I’ll be hanged’

46
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Act 5 Scene 7 p3

Punishments

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Mosca - to be ‘whipped’ and be ‘perpetual prisoner’
Volpone’s - ‘lie in prison cramped with irons / Till thou be sick and lame indeed’
Voltore - banished from ‘thy profession’ and ‘our state’
Corbaccio - confined to a ‘monastery’
Corvino - ‘rowed round about Venice…wearing a cap with fair long ass’s ears instead of horns’

47
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Epilogue - Volpone asking audience to condone his art

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‘If not, fare jovially, and clap your hands’

Similar to Mosca Act 2 Scene 4 ‘as I prosper, so applaud my art’

48
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Act 5 Scene 7 p4

Volpone - revealing himself

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‘I am Volpone’

‘reverend fathers, we can all hope nought / but a sentence’

49
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Volpone disguises

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Act I - dying old man
Act II - mountebank
Act III - dying old man, wants to make love to Celia in 'changéd shapes'
Act IV - dying old man
Act V - court messenger

English Literature A2: Volpone vs Paradise Lost; The Tempest (11 decks)

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