Volpone Quotes Flashcards
“Good…” Act 1 Scene 1 - Volpone
“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!”
“Thy looks…” Act 1 Scene 1 - Volpone
“Thy looks, when they to Venus did ascribe, they should have given her twenty thousand Cupids; such are thy beauties, and our loves!”
“And what he…” Act 1 Scene 1 - Mosca
“And what he will, sir. Riches are in fortune a greater good than wisdom is in nature.”
“Fetch me…” Act 1 Scene 2 - Volpone
“Fetch me my gown, my furs and night-caps; say mu couch is changing”
“Now, now…” Act 1 Scene 2 - Volpone
“Now, now, my clients begin their visitation! Vulture, kite, raven and gor-crow, all my birds of prey that think me turning carcass”
“Hood an…” Act 1 Scene 2 - Mosca
“Hood an ass with reverend purple, so you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor”
“I feel…” Act 1 Scene 3 - Volpone
“I feel me going - uh! uh! uh! uh!”
Gift from Voltore
“A piece of antique plate, bought of St Mark”
Gift from Corbaccio
“I have brought him an opiate here, from mine own doctor” “bag of sequins”
“My life…” Act 1 Scene 4 - Corbaccio and Volpone
“My life for his, ‘tis but to make him sleep”
[aside] Volpone “Aye, his last sleep, if he would take it”
“His mouth…” Act 1 Scene 4 - Mosca and Corbaccio
“His mouth is ever gaping, and his eyelids hand”
Corbaccio “Good”
“Excellent…” Act 1 Scene 4 - Corbaccio
“Excellent, excellent, sure I shall outlast him: this makes me young again, a score of years”
Stage direction Act 1 Scene 4 Volpone
leaping from his bed
“Another bout…” Act 1 Scene 4 - Mosca
“Another bout, sir, with your eyes” [Anointing them]
Gift from Corvino
“a rich pearl” “a diamond for him, too”
“Faith, I could…” Act 1 Scene 5 - Mosca and Corvino
“Faith, I could stifle him rarely with a pillow”
Corvino “Do as you will, but I’ll be gone”
“Oh, sir, the wonder…” Act 1 Scene 5 - Mosca
“Oh, sir, the wonder, the blazing star of Italy! … A beauty ripe as harvest!… A soft lip, would tempt you to eternity of kissing!”
“She’s kept…” Act 1 Scene 5 - Mosca
“She’s kept as warily as your gold - never does come abroad, never takes air but at a window.”
“Your lady…” Act 2 Scene 1 - Peregrine
“Your lady lies here in Venice for intelligence of tires, and fashions and behaviour, among the courtesans?”
Stage direction Act 2 Scene 2 - Volpone
Enter Volpone on to the stage, disguised as a mountebank
“A most…” Act 2 Scene 2 - Volpone
“A most sovereign and approved remedy; the mal caduco, cramps, convulsions, paralyses, epilepsies..”
“Therefore now toss…” Act 2 Scene 2 - Volpone
“Therefore now toss your handkerchiefs, cheerfully, cheerfully”
Stage direction Act 2 Scene 2 - Celia
Celia at the window throws down her handkerchief
“It is the powder…” Act 2 Scene 2 - Volpone
“It is the powder that made Venus a goddess, that made her perpetually young”
