Act 2 quotations Flashcards
(40 cards)
“For all in vain comes…” - York (A2S1)
“For all in vain comes counsel to his ear!”
“His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves”
“This other Eden…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“This other Eden, demi-paradise”
“This precious stone set…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“This precious stone set in the silver sea”
“This blessed plot, this earth, this…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”
“This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world”
“Is now leased out..Like to a tenement or…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“Is now leased out..Like to a tenement or pelting farm”
“A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, whose compass is no bigger than thy head”
“Landlord of England art thou now…” - Gaunt (A2S1)
“Landlord of England art thou now, not King”
“Thou art a lunatic lean…” - Richard (A2S1)
“Thou art a lunatic lean-witted fool”
“So much…” - Richard (A2S1)
“So much for that”
“we do seize to us the plate…” - Richard (A2S1)
“we do seize to us the plate, coin, revenues and moveables”
“In war was never lion raged more fierce, in peace…” - York (A2S1)
“In war was never lion raged more fierce, in peace was never gentle lamb
more mild”
“You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed… allegiance cannot think” - York (A2S1)
“You pluck a thousand dangers on your head, you lose a thousand well-disposed hearts and prick my tender patience to close thoughts which honour and allegiance cannot think”
“Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his…” - Richard (A2S1)
“Think what you will, we seize into our hands his plate, his goods, his money
and his lands”
“The king is not himself, but…” Northumberland (A2S1)
“The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers!”
“My sweet Richard… Some unborn sorrow, ripe in…” - Queen Isabel (A2S2)
“My sweet Richard… Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, is
coming towards me”
“…repeals himself and with uplifted arms is safe arrived at Ravenspurgh” - Greene (A2S2)
“The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself and with uplifted arms is safe
arrived at Ravenspurgh”
“The Lord Northumberland…the lords..with all their powerful friends…” - Greene (A2S2)
“The Lord Northumberland…the lords..with all their powerful friends, are fled to him”
“Here I am left to underprop his land, who, weak with age…” - York (A2S2)
“Here I am left to underprop his land, who, weak with age, cannot support
myself”
“The king had cut off my head…” York (A2S2)
“The king had cut off my head with my brothers”
“Both are my…” - York (A2S2)
“Both are my kinsmen”
“Wherein the King stands…” -Bushy (A2S2)
“Wherein the King stands generally condemned!”
“We three here part that ne’er…” - Bagot (A2S2)
“We three here part that ne’er shall meet again”
