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| How I may formally in person bear me Like a true friar. More reasons for this action At our more leisure shall I render you; Only, this one: Lord ______ is precise; Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be. |
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Definition
| Measure for Measure Duke Vincentio about Angelo |
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Term
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:
Mine were the very cipher of a function,
To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
And let go by the actor. |
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Angelo
to Isabella |
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| Who will believe thee, ______? My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report And smell of calumny. |
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| Measure for Measure Angelo threatening Isabella |
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I have begun,
And now I give my sensual race the rein:
Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother
By yielding up thy body to my will;
Or else he must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,
Or, by the affection that now guides me most,
I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true. |
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Definition
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Angelo
threatening Isabella |
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Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me
As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
A novice of this place and the fair sister
To her unhappy brother Claudio? |
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Lucio
to Isabella
enlisting her help in saving Claudio |
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Term
There is a vice that most I do abhor,
And most desire should meet the blow of justice;
For which I would not plead, but that I must;
For which I must not plead, but that I am
At war 'twixt will and will not. |
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Isabella
to Angelo |
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| More than our brother is our chastity. I'll tell him yet of ______'s request, And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest. |
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Definition
| Measure for Measure Isabella |
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Term
To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
Either of condemnation or approof;
Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
To follow as it draws! |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Isabella |
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| I'll to my brother: Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. That, had he twenty heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up, Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution. Then, ______, live chaste, and, brother, die: |
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Definition
| Measure for Measure Isabella |
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Term
That I do beg his life, if it be sin,
Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,
If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer
To have it added to the faults of mine,
And nothing of your answer. |
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Isabella
to Angelo |
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Please you to do't,
I'll take it as a peril to my soul,
It is no sin at all, but charity. |
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Isabella
to Angelo |
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Term
Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
A man already made, as to remit
Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy
Falsely to take away a life true made
As to put metal in restrained means
To make a false one. |
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Angelo
to Isabella |
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Term
A: Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
'Remember now my brother.'
B: Fear me not. |
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A: Isabella
B: Mariana
bed-trick |
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Term
A: She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.
B: It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too. |
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A: Isabella
B: Duke Vincentio/Friar
bed-trick |
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Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow. |
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Duke Vincentio/Friar
bed-trick |
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As much for my poor brother as myself:
That is, were I under the terms of death,
The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,
And strip myself to death, as to a bed
That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield
My body up to shame. |
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Isabella
to Angelo |
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Term
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death. |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Claudio
to Isabella |
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Term
O heavens! it cannot be.
...
Death is a fearful thing. |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Claudio |
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Term
Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
For what I bid them do: |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Duke Vincentio |
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| Craft against vice I must apply: With ______ to-night shall lie His old betrothed but despised; So disguise shall, by the disguised, Pay with falsehood false exacting, And perform an old contracting. |
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| Measure for Measure Duke Vincentio |
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When I perceive your grace, like power divine,
Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,
No longer session hold upon my shame,
But let my trial be mine own confession:
Immediate sentence then and sequent death
Is all the grace I beg. |
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Measure for Measure
Angelo
to the Duke
shamed |
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Term
Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my metal,
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamp'd upon it. |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Angelo |
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Term
If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would
send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say
the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom
as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy
offence, _______? |
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Lucio
to Claudio |
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Term
And the new deputy now for the duke—
Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
Or whether that the body public be
A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Claudio |
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Term
I have done so, but he's not to be found.
I prithee, _____, do me this kind service:
This day my sister should the cloister enter
And there receive her approbation:
Acquaint her with the danger of my state:
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
To the strict deputy; |
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Definition
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Claudio
to Lucio |
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Term
Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more;
But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Isabella
on entering the abbey |
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Term
For common justice, you're as pregnant in
As art and practise hath enriched any
That we remember. |
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Definition
Measure for Measure
Duke Vincentio |
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