Measure for Measure Quotes: Angelo

Question 1

1:1, 49

Answer 1

Angelo: Let there be some more test made of my metal

Question 2

1:2, 154

Answer 2

Claudio: But this new governor 
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by th' wall
[...]
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Freshly on me: 'tis surely for name.

Question 3

1:3, 51

Answer 3

Duke: scarce confesses

That his blood flows

Question 4

1:4, 57

Answer 4

Lucio: a man whose bloody

Is very snow-broth

Question 5

2:1, 29

Answer 5

Angelo: When I that censure him do so offend,

Let mine own judgement pattern out my death

Question 6

2:2, 96

Answer 6

Angelo: Looks in a glass that shows what future evils

Question 7

2:2 170

Answer 7

Angelo: Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there?

Question 8

2:2, 173-5

Answer 8

Angelo: What dost thou, or what art thou Angelo?
Dost thou desire her foully for those things
That make her good?

Question 9

2:4, 2

Answer 9

Angelo: Heaven hath my empty words.

Question 10

2:4, 159

Answer 10

Angelo: Now I give my sensual race the rein:

Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite

Question 11

2:4, 162

Answer 11

Angelo: Redeem thy brother
By yielding up thy body to my will;
Or else he must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To ling'ring sufferance.

Question 12

2:4, 169

Answer 12

Angelo: my false o’erweighs your true.

Question 13

4:5, 26

Answer 13

Angelo: He should have lived,
Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonour’d life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived.
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.

Question 14

5:1, 35

Answer 14

Angelo: My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm.

Question 15

5:1, 215

Answer 15

Angelo: My lord, I must confess I know this woman;
And five years since there was some speech of marriage
Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,
Partly for that her promised proportions
Came short of composition, but in chief
For that her reputation was disval’ed
In levity

Question 16

5:1, 370

Answer 16

Angelo: But let my trial be mine own confession:
Immediate sentence, then, and sequent death
Is all the grace I beg.