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”
“Ere tomorrow…” Act 2 Scene 3 - Corvino
“Ere tomorrow I shall be new-christened, and called the Pantalone di Besogniosi about the town”
“Death of…” Act 2 Scene 5 - Corvino
“Death of mine honour, with the city’s fool? A juggling, tooth-drawing, prating mountebank? And at a public window?”
“I’ll but protest…” Act 2 Scene 5 - Corvino
“I’ll but protest myself a cuckold, and save your dowry”
Stage direction Act 2 Scene 5 - Corvino
draws his dagger
“Then, here’s a…” Act 2 Scene 5 - Corvino
“Then, here’s a lock, which I will hang upon thee” [holds up a chastity belt]
“Let me not…” Act 2 Scene 5 - Corvino
“Let me not prosper, whore, but I will make thee an anatomy, dissect thee mine own self”
“Ha’ you no…” Act 2 Scene 6 - Mosca
“Ha’ you no kinswoman? God’s so - Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, sir”
“The party…” Act 2 Scene 6 - Corvino
“The party you wot of shall be mine own wife, Mosca”
“I could skip…” Act 3 Scene 1 - Mosca
“I could skip out of my skin, now, like a subtle snake, I am so limber”
“I had forgot…” Act 3 Scene 5 - Mosca
“I had forgot to tell you, I saw your knight, where you’d little think it”
“Sir, kill me…” Act 3 Scene 7 - Celia
“Sir, kill me rather. I will take down poison, eat burning coals, do anything”
“Rather applaud…” Act 3 Scene 7 - Volpone
“Rather applaud thy beauty’s miracle”
“Good sir…sensual baits” Act 3 Scene 7 - Celia
“Good sir, these things might move a mind affected with such delights; but I, whose innocence is all i can think wealthy, or worth th’enjoying, and which once lost, I have naught to lose beyond it, cannot be taken with these sensual baits”
“Whilst we…” Act 3 Scene 7 - Volpone
“Whilst we, in changed shapes, act Ovid’s tales”
“Free the…” Act 3 Scene 7 - Bonario
“Free the forced lady, or thou diest, impostor.”
“Your fatherhoods…” Act 4 Scene 5 - Voltore
“Your fatherhoods’ fit pleasures be obeyed”
“I tremble to…” Act 4 Scene 5 - Voltore
“I tremble to pronounce it, that a son unto a father, and to such a father should have so foul, felonious intent. It was, to murder him”
“Aye this same…” Act 4 Scene 6 - Lady Would-be
“Aye this same is she. Out, thou chameleon harlot!”
“Like a…” Act 5 Scene 2 - Volpone
“Like a temptation of the devil”
“Of cloth…” Act 5 Scene 3 - Mosca (listing)
“Of cloth of gold, two more”
“Mosca…” Act 5 Scene 3 - Voltore
“Mosca the heir!”
“I’m cozened…” Act 5 Scene 3 - Corbaccio
“I’m cozened, cheated, by a parasite-slave”
“Sir I can…” Act 5 Scene 3 - Mosca
“Sir I can fit you”
“There still was…” Act 5 Scene 8 - Volpone
“There still was somewhat in his look did promise the bane of a clarissimo”
“The advocate’s…” Act 5 Scene 10 - Corbaccio
“The advocate’s a knave, and has a forked tongue”
“Bane to…” Act 5 Scene 12 - Mosca
“Bane to thy wolfish nature”
“Thou art to…” Act 5 Scene 12 - 1st avvocato
“Thou art to lie in prison cramped with irons, till thou be’st sick and lame indeed”
“For which our…” Act 5 Scene 12 - 1st avvocato
“For which our sentence is, first thou be whipped; then live perpetual prisoner in our galleys”
“When crimes…” Act 5 Scene 12 - 1st avvocato
“When crimes are done and past and to be punished, to think what your crimes are.”
