“Yet why should
ladies blush to hear
that named which
they do not fear to
handle”- Flamineo
“O they are politic;
they know our
desire is increased
by the difficulty of
enjoying”- Flamineo
"Women are like
cursed dogs: civility
keeps them tied all
daytime, but they are
let loose at midnight"-
Flamineo
women are more
willingly and more
gloriously chaste
when they are
least restrained of
their liberty”-
Flamineo
I will but change
my jewel for your
jewel”- Bracciano
“O dissemblance”-
Bracciano
Look upon other women,
with that patience they
suffer these slight wrongs,
and with what justice they
study to requite them: take
that course”- Francisco
“What Turn’s fury”-
Francisco
“I am resolved
were there a
second paradise to
lose this devil
would betray it” –
Monticelso
“They are worse, worse than
dead bodies, which are begged
at gallows and wrought upon by
surgeons to teach man wherein
he is imperfect. What’s a whore?
She’s like a counterfeited coin”-
Monticelso
“A whore is the true
material fire of hell”-
Monticelso
“If the devil did ever
take good shape,
behold his picture”-
Monticelso
“confin’d unto a
house of
convertites…a house
of penitent whores”-
Monticelso
“She’s turned fury”-
Monticelso
“I’ll cut her into atomies…
where is this whore?”-
Bracciano
“Your beauty! O, ten thousand
curses on’t. How long have I
beheld the devil in crystal”-
Bracciano
“Woman to man is either
a God or a wolf”-
Bracciano
“I was bewitched…what
have I gained from thee but
infamy”- Bracciano
“Their thoughts are on
hot and lustful sports”-
Lodovico
“Leave your prating,
for these are but
grammatical laments,
feminine arguments,
and they move me”-
Flamineo
“Trust a woman? Never,
never”- Flamineo
“black fury”- Carlo
Women Characters
“I did nothing to displease
him”- Vittoria
“When to my rescue there
arose… a massy arm from that
strong plant”- Vittoria
“I do protest, if any chaste
denial, if anything but blood
could have allay’d is long suit to
me”- Vittoria
“Are all these ruins of my
former beauty laid out for a
whore’s triumph?”- Isabella
“O that I were a man, or that I had
power to execute my apprehended
wishes!”- Isabella
“To dig that strumpet’s
eyes out; let her die
some twenty months"
"preserve her flesh like mummia, for
trophies of my just anger”- Isabella
"I will not have my
accusation clouded
in a strange
tongue. All this
assembly shall
hear what you
charge me with”-
Vittoria
“you raise a blood
as noble in this
cheek as ever was
your mother’s”-
Vittoria
"all your strict-combined heads,
which strike against this mine of
diamonds, shall prove but glass
hammers; they shall break”- Vittoria
Grant I was tempted,
Temptation to lust proves
not the act”- Vittoria
“So may you blame
some fair and
crystal river for that
some melancholic
distracted man”-
Vittoria
“Sum up my faults I pray, and you
shall find that beauty and gay
clothes, a merry hear and a good
stomach to feast, are all, all the
poor crimes that you can charge
me with”- Vittoria
“You must have
patience”- Flamineo
“I must first have
vengeance”- Vittoria
“A rape! A
rape!”- Vittoria
O woman’s
poor revenge
which dwells but
in the tongue, I
will not weep”-
Vittoria
[she throws
herself upon a
bed]
“O ye dissembling
men”- Vittoria
“Alas, poor maids get
more lovers than
husbands”- Zanche
Wealth
“I will but change my jewel
for your jewel”
“you shall wear my jewel lower”-
Bracciano
“I would fain know where lies the
mass of wealth which you have
hoarded for my maintenance that I
may bear my beard above my Lord’s
stirrup.”- Flamineo
“Because we are poor
shall we be viscious?”-
Cornelia
“Pray what means have
you to keep me from the
galleys, or the gallows?”-
Flamineo
"QI would the common’st courtesan in
Rome has been my mother, rather than
thyself. Nature is very pitiful to whores”-
Flamineo
"Devil" language
“The devil was in your
dream”-Flamineo
“Excellent devil! She hath taught him in a
dream to make away his duchess and her
husband” – Flamineo
“I am resolved were there a second paradise to
lose this devil would betray it” – Monticelso
“If the devil did ever take
good shape, behold his
picture”- Monticelso
“She’s turned fury”-
Monticelso
“Devil Bracciano.
Thou art
damned”-
Lodovico
“O me” This place is hell!”- Vittoria
“Thou hast a devil in thee”- Flamineo
“forsake that which was made for man, the
world, to sink to that was made for devils,
eternal darkness”- Vittoria
Violent language
bloody and full
of horror.” –
Gaspero
“Make Italian cutworks
in their guts if I ever
return”- Lodovico
preserve her flesh like
mummia, for trophies of my
just anger”- Isabella
“excellent, then she’s dead”-
Bracciano
“They are worse, worse than dead bodies,
which are begged at gallows and wrought
upon by surgeons to teach man wherein he is
imperfect." - Monticelso
“A whore is the true material fire of
hell”- Monticelso
“Like the wild Irish, I’ll never think
thee dead till I can play football
with thy head”- Francisco
“I was bewitched…what have
I gained from thee but infamy”-
Bracciano
• “I had a limb corrupted to an
ulcer, but I have cut it off, and now I’ll
go weeping to Heaven on crutches”-
Vittoria
"A dead man’s skull beneath the
roots of flowers"- Flamineo
“Away with them to prison, and to torture”- Giovanni
Ambition
“This is my resolve: I would not
live at any man’s entreaty nor
die at any’s bidding”- Flamineo
“we think caged birds sing, when indeed
they cry”- Flamineo
“that tree shall long time keep a steady
foot/whose branches spread no wider
than the root”- Marcello dies
“If I were placed as high as the duke, I should
stick as fast, make as fair a show, and bear out
weather equally”- Flamineo
“Glories, like glow worms, afar off shine bright
but, looked to near, have neither heat nor
light”- Flamineo
“Knaves do go great by being
great men’s apes”- Flamineo
Sin
“See the curse of children! In life
they keep us frequently in tears; and
in the cold grave leave us in pale
fears”- Cornelia
“No, this face of mine I’ll arm,
and fortify with lusty wine,
‘gainst shame and blushing”-
Flamineo
“When you awake from this lascivious
dream, repentance then will follow, like
the sting placed in the adders tale”-
Monticelso
“O dissemblance”- Bracciano
“[aside] I do not
put on this feigned
garb of mirth”-
Flamineo
“forsake that which was made for
man, the world, to sink to that was
made for devils, eternal darkness”-
Vittoria
“O my greatest sin lay in my
blood; now my blood pays
for’t”- Vittoria
“Let guilty men remember
their black deeds do lean on
crutches, made of slender
reeds”- Giovanni
Love and Marriage
[Zanche brings out a carpet,
spreads it out and lays on it two
fair cushions]
“you are as welcome to these longing arms as I to
you a virgin”- Isabella
O your breath”- Bracciano
“accursed be the priest that sang the
wedding-mass”- Bracciano
“Do the noblemen in Rome erect
it for their wives, that I am sent to
lodge there”- Vittoria
“Their thoughts are on hot and lustful sports”-
Lodovico
women are like to burs; where their
affection throws them, there they’ll
stick”- Flamineo
“Where’s this good woman? Had I infinite worlds, they were
too little for thee. Must I leave thee?”- Bracciano