Measure for Measure Quotes: Duke

Question 1

1:1, 17

Answer 1

Duke: We have with special soul / Elected him our absence to supply

Question 2

1:1, 64

Answer 2

Duke: Your scope is as mine own,
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good.

Question 3

1:1, 67

Answer 3

Duke: I love the people,

But do not like to stage me to their eyes

Question 4

1:2, 2

Answer 4

Duke: Believe not that the dribbling dart of love

Can pierce a complete bosom

Question 5

1:3, 19

Answer 5

Duke: We have strict statutes and biting laws […]

Which for this fourteen years we have let slip

Question 6

1:3, 31

Answer 6

Friar: It rested in your Grace
To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased.
And it in you more dreadful would have seemed
Than in Lord Angelo.

Duke: I fear too dreadful
Sith ‘twas my fault to give the people scope,
‘Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them.

Question 7

1:3, 54

Answer 7

Duke: Hence shall we see

Is power change purpose, What our seemers be.

Question 8

3:1, 196

Answer 8

Duke: Fasten your ear on my advising, to the love I have in doing good; a remedy presents itself

Question 9

3:2, 189

Answer 9

Duke: No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure ‘scape

Question 10

3:2, 254

Answer 10

Duke: He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe:
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue, go [...]
Craft against vice I must apply

Question 11

4:1, 2

Answer 11

Mariana: whose advice/Hath often still’d my brawling discomfort.

Question 12

4:1, 67

Answer 12

Duke: It is not my consent, But my entreaty too.

Question 13

4:1, 206

Answer 13

Duke: I will give him present shrift, and advise him for a better place

Question 14

4:3, 50

Answer 14

Duke (to Barnadine): I am come to advise you, comfort

you and pray with you.

Question 15

4:3, 108

Answer 15

Duke: But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her heavenly comforts of despair,
When it is least expected.

Question 16

5:1, 113

Answer 16

Duke: if he had so offended,
He would have weigh’t thy brother by himself
And not have cut him off.

Question 17

5:1, 387

Answer 17

Duke: Your brother’s death, I know, sits at your heart

When he reveals himself, he still lies to Isabella about Claudio

Question 18

5:1, 375

Answer 18

Duke: Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.

Question 19

5:1, 407

Answer 19

Duke: An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.

Question 20

5:1, 487

Answer 20

Duke: [To Isabella] If he be like your brother, for his sake
Is he pardon’d; and, for your lovely sake,
Give me your hand and say you will be mine.

Question 21

5:1, 510

Answer 21

Duke: And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish’d,

Let him be whipt and hang’d.

Question 22

5:1, 534

Answer 22

Duke: What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
So, bring us to our palace; where we’ll show
What’s yet behind, that’s meet you all should know