Ferdinand Quote

Question 1

Nature

Answer 1

‘Perverse and turbulent nature’

Question 2

Spider

Answer 2

‘Entangle those shall feed him’

Question 3

Siblings

Answer 3

cast in one figure of so different a temper’

Question 4

Madness

Answer 4

‘Put him out of his wits’

Question 5

Ambition

Answer 5

‘How fearful shows his ambition now’

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

‘Unfortunate fortune’

Question 7

Mandrake

Answer 7

‘I have this night digger up a mandrake’

‘I am grown mad with it’

Question 8

Anger at duchess

Answer 8

‘A sister damned’
‘Loose in the hilts’
‘Notorious strumpet’

Question 9

No reason left

Answer 9

‘You fly beyond your reason’

Question 10

Tempest

Answer 10

‘Why do you make yourself so wild a tempest’

Question 11

Blood

Answer 11

‘Purge infected blood’

Question 12

Tears

Answer 12

‘There is a kind of pity in mine eye, I’ll give it to my handkerchief’

Question 13

Incest

Answer 13

‘Imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin’

Question 14

Sleep tempest

Answer 14

‘He is so quiet that he seems to sleep the tempest putt, as dormice do in winter’

Question 15

Deaf

Answer 15

‘Let me be forever deaf to it’

Question 16

Witchcraft

Answer 16

‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood. This night I will force confession from her’

Question 17

Flatterers

Answer 17

‘I never gave pension to flatterers till I entertained Thee’

Question 18

Violent effects

Answer 18

‘Such violent effects as would destroy us both’

Question 19

Eye

Answer 19

‘A very salamander lives ins eye’

Question 20

Leprosy

Answer 20

‘Her fault and beauty blended together like leprosy’

Question 21

Children

Answer 21

‘Beggarly brats were ever christened’

Question 22

Duchess

Answer 22

‘This darkness suits you’
‘To bring her despair’
‘Damn her that body of hers’

Question 23

Mad folk

Answer 23

‘Have her meat served up by bawds’

Question 24

Eyes dazzle

Answer 24

‘Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle’

Question 25

Wits

Answer 25

‘I was distracted of my wits’

Question 26

Anger as bosola

Answer 26

‘I hate thee for’t’

Question 27

Badger

Answer 27

‘I’ll go hunt the badger by owl-light’

Question 28

Illness

Answer 28

‘Sick as they give out of apoplexy’ ‘A Frenzy’ ‘In those that are possessed with’t there o’er flows such melancholy humour’

Question 29

Wolf

Answer 29

‘A wolf skin was hairy in the outside, his in the inside’

Question 30

Shadow

Answer 30

‘Fall upon’t’ | ‘Let it not haunt me’

Question 31

Beast

Answer 31

‘You are all of you like beats for sacrifice there’s nothing left of you but tongue and belly flattery and lechery’

Question 32

Strangling

Answer 32

‘Strangling is a very quiet death’

Question 33

Pain

Answer 33

‘Pains nothing’

Question 34

Dog kennel

Answer 34

‘I do account this world but a god kennel’

Question 35

Cause of sorrow

Answer 35

‘My sister- there’s th cause on’t’

Question 36

Last line

Answer 36

‘Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’