M4M quotes

Lucio 1.1

“thy bones are hollow” - bawdy humour
“foppery of freedom” - ironic that Lucio is free and Claudio isn’t

Lucio 1.4

“hail, virgin!” - classifies Isabella by her sexuality

“a thing enskied and sainted”

“urine congealed ice”

Lucio 2.2

“kneel down before him, hang upon his gown” - encouraging Isabella to use her sexuality

“ay, touch him, there’s the vein”

Lucio 3.2

“Go to kennel Pompey, go” - always escaping arrest. ironic for ending.

“he would mouth with a beggar” - badmouthing duke

Lucio 4.3

“I loved thy brother”

Lucio 5.1

“tis a meddling friar”

“this may prove worse than hanging”

“i beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.”

Duke 1.1

“lent him our terror, dressed him with our love”

“i love the people, but do not like to stage me to their eyes”

Duke 1.3

“the baby beats the nurse”

“like an overgrown lion in a cave”

“we shall see if power changes purpose what our seemers be”

Duke 2.3

“then was your sin of heavier kind than his”

Duke 3.1

“thy best of rest is sleep”

Duke 3.2

“what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side”

Duke 4.3

“convenient is it”

“i will keep her ignorant of her good”

Duke 5.1

“an angelo to a claudio, death for death, and measure still for measure.”

“away with her: poor soul”

“where i have seen corruption boil and bubble till it o’errun the stew”

“whats mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”

Angelo 1.1

“test made of my metal…so great a figure be stamped upon it”

Angelo 2.1

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law”

Angelo 2.2

“pray you be gone”

“it is the law, not i”

“lying by the violet in the son, do as the carrion does, not as the flower”

“feast upon her eyes”

“ever till now when men were fond, i smiled, and wondered how”

“dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?”

Angelo 2.4

“might there not be a charity in sin to save this brothers life?”

“lay down the treasures of your body”

“give up your body to such sweet uncleanness as she that he hath stained”

“i give my sensual race the rein, fit thy consent to my sharp appetite.”

“say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true”

“blood, thou art blood”

Angelo 4.4

“for my authority bears of a credent bulk”

Angelo 5.1

“my lord, her wits i fear me are not firm” “instruments”

“i should be guiltier than my guiltiness”

“i crave death more willingly than mercy

Claudio 1.2

“too much liberty”

“our natures are like rats a raving and when we drink we die”

“i got possession of julietta’s bed” “she is fast my wife”

“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”

“tis surely for a name”

Juliet 2.3

“bear the shame most patiently”

“as i love the woman that wronged him”

Claudio 3.1

“if i must die i will encounter darkness as a bride and hug it in mine arms”

“thou shalt not do it”

“sure it is no sin, or of the deadly seven it is the least”

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;"

Pompey 1.2

“all houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down”

Pompey 4.2

“i have been an unlawful bawd but i will be content to be a lawful hangman.”

Isabella 1.4

“I speak not wanting more but desiring a more strict restraint”

Isabella 2.2

“Dressed in a little brief authority,”

“go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know”

“it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant”

“More than our brother is our chastity”

Isabella 2.4

“I am come to know your pleasure”

“keen whips i’d wear as rubies”

“i had rather give my body than my soul”

“with an outstretched throat i’ll tell the world aloud”

Isabella 3.1

“oh you beast! oh faithless coward, oh dishonest wretch!”

“die, perish!” “i’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death”

Isabella 5.1

“given me justice, justice, justice, justice”

“a hypocrite, a virgin-violator, is it not strange, and strange?”

About Mariana +Angelo 3.1

“a marble to her tears”

Mariana 4.1

‘I am always bound to you”

Mariana 5.1

(about Mariana) “why, you are nothing, then, neither mid, widow, nor wife?”

“i hope you will not mock me with a husband”

“or else for ever be confixed here a marble monument”

“i crave no other, nor no better man”