Measure for Measure: Isabella

Question 1

Speechless dialect

Answer 1

Claudio: There is a prone and speechless dialect Such as move men […] well she can persuade

Said to Lucio, [1:2,174]

Question 2

Strict restraint

Answer 2

Isabella: I speak not desiring more,
But rather wishing a more strict restraint

Talking to another nun, [1:4,3]

Question 3

Enskied and sainted

Answer 3

Lucio: I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted

To Isabella, [1:4,34]

Question 4

Poor ability

Answer 4

Isabella: Alas, what poor ability’s in me
To do him good!

To Lucio, [1:4,75]

Question 5

Vice….abhor

Answer 5

Isabella: There is a vice that most I do abhor

To Angelo, [2:2,29]

Question 6

Just but severe law

Answer 6

Isabella: O just but severe law! I had a brother, then.

To Angelo, [2:2,42]

Question 7

Slipped

Answer 7

Isabella (to Angelo): If he had been as you, and you as he,
You would have slipp’d like him

To Angelo, [2:2,64]

Question 8

Top of judgement

Answer 8

Isabella: How would you be
If He, which is the top of judgement, should
But judge you as you are?

To Angelo, [2:2,75]

Question 9

Pleasure

Answer 9

Isabella: I am come to know your pleasure

To Angelo, [2:4,31]

Question 10

Keen whips, rubies

Answer 10

Isabella: Th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies,
And strip myself to death as to a bed

To Angelo, [2:4,101]

Question 11

Redeeming him.. die forever

Answer 11

Isabella: Better it were a brother die at once
Than a sister, by redeeming him,
Should die forever

To Angelo, [2:4,105-108]

Question 12

Abhorred pollution

Answer 12

Isabella: Before his sister should her body stoop
To such abhorr’d pollution

Soliloquy, [2:4,182]

Question 13

Live chaste

Answer 13

Isabella: Then, Isabel live chaste, and brother, die:
More than our brother is our chastity

Soliloquy, [2:4,183]

Question 14

Devilish mercy

Answer 14

Isabella: There is a devilish mercy in the judge […]
that will free your life, But fetter you till death

To Claudio, [3:1,65]

Question 15

Thousand prayers

Answer 15

Isabella: O, you beast! O faithless coward! […]
I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death;
No word to save thee

To Claudio, [3:1,145]

Question 16

Pluck out eyes

Answer 16

(After Duke tells her that Claudio is dead)
Isabella: O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!

To Duke, [4:3,119]

Question 17

Justice!

Answer 17

Isabella: justice, justice, justice, justice!

To Duke, [5:1,26]

Question 18

Adulterous thief, hypocrite and virgin violator

Answer 18

Isabella: That Angelo’s forsworn; is it not strange?
That Angelo’s a murderer; is’t not strange?
That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;
Is it not strange and strange?

To Duke, [5:1,39]

Question 19

Justice, bad intent

Answer 19

Isabella: [kneeling] [...]
I partly think 
A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,
Till he did look on me: since it is so,
Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
In that he did the thing for which he died:
For Angelo,
His act did not o'ertake his bad intent

To Duke, [5:1,441]