The Duchess of Malfi

50 cards·by LunarAlfie

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Duchess (4.2): I am

Duchess of Malfi still

Duchess (4.2): Am I

Not thy Duchess?

Duchess (4.1): Thou art a fool, then,

To waste thy pity on a thing so wretched as cannot pity itself

Duchess (4.2): I account

This world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will

Duchess (4.2): The church

Enjoys fasting: I'll starve myself to death

Duchess (4.2): I am

Full of daggers

Duchess (4.1): I'll go

Pray:- no, I'll go curse

Cardinal (2.5): Shall our

Blood, the royal blood of Arragon and Castile, be thus attainted?

Ferdinand (1.3): Whores

By that rule are precious

Ferdinand (1.3): This was

My father's poniard, do you see?

Ferdinand (2.5): Talk to me

Somewhat quickly, or my imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin

Ferdinand (2.5): Happily

With some strong-thigh'd bargeman

Ferdinand (3.2): Die then,

Quickly! Virtue, where art thou hid?

Ferdinand (3.2): You have shook

Hands with Reputation, and made him invisible

Ferdinand (4.2): The death

Of young wolves is never to be pitied

Ferdinand (4.2): cover her face;

Mine eyes dazzle; she died young

Ferdinand (5.2): Stop it

Let it not haunt me

Doctor (5.2): A wolf's

Skin was hairy on the outside, his on the inside

Duchess (4.1): Go howl

Them this, and say, I long to bleed

Duchess (4.1): I could

Curse the stars

Duchess (3.4): Men oft

Are valu'd high, when they're most wretched

Duchess (3.2): For know,

Whether I am doom'd to live or die, I can do both like a prince

Duchess (3.2): You are

A lord of misrule

Duchess (3.2): You are in this

Too strict; and were you not my princely brother, I would say, too wilful: my reputation is safe

Duchess (3.1): When I

Choose a husband, I will marry for your honour

Duchess (2.3): Diamonds

Are of most value, they say, that have pass'd through most jewellers' hands

Duchess (1.3): The misery

Of us that are born great! We are forc'd to woo because none dare woo us

Bosola (5.2): The weakest

Arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice

Bosola (1.2): Sometimes

The devil doth preach

Bosola (1.1): He and his

Brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools

Bosola (1.1): Blackbirds

Fatten best in hard weather, why not I in these dog days?

Bosola (1.1): I do

Haunt you still

Antonio (3.2): Indeed,

My rule is only in the night

Cariola (1.3): Whether the

Spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her, I know not; but it shows a fearful madness. I owe her much of pity

Ferdinand (5.4): Whether we fall

By ambition, love, or list, like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

Ferdinand (4 1): You have it;

For I account it the honourabl'st revenge, where I may kill, to pardon

Duchess (4.2): Come, violent death..

Go tell my brothers, when I am laid out, they then may feed in quiet

Duchess (4.2): Fortune

Seems only to have her eyesight to behold my tragedy

Duchess (4.2): The robin

Red-breast and the nightingale never live long in cages

Duchess (4.2): Indeed, I thank him

Nothing but noise and folly can keep me in my right wits; whereas reason and silence make me stark mad

Bosola (5.5): They took

From Justice her most equal balance, and left her naught but her sword

Bosola (5.2): O Penitence,

Let me truly taste thy cup, that throws men down only to raise them up

Bosola (3.2): A politician

Is the devil's quilted anvil

Bosola (2.1): Man stands

Amaz'd to see his deformity in any other creature but himself

Antonio (5.3) Echo,

I will not talk with thee, for thou are a dead thing

Bosola (5.5): Now my

Revenge is perfect

Cardinal (2.5): There is not

In nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger

Duchess (1.3): Let old

Wives report I wink'd and chose a husband

Duchess (1.3): T'was my

Wedding ring, and i did vow never to part with it but to my second husband

Cardinal (5.5): Sorrow

Is held the eldest child of sin