Measure for Measure Quotes: Lucio

Question 1

1:4, 40

Answer 1

Lucio: Your brother and his lover have embrac’d;

As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time

Question 2

1:4, 76

Answer 2

Lucio: Assay the power you have

Question 3

3:2, 98

Answer 3

Lucio: (talking about lechery) it is impossible to extirp it quite

Question 4

3:2, 115

Answer 4

Lucio: (about the Duke) He had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service; and that instructed him to mercy.

Question 5

3:2, 136

Answer 5

Lucio: A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow–

Question 6

4:3, 150

Answer 6

Lucio: O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see
thing eyes so red: […]
By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:
if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
at home, he had lived.

Question 7

4:3, 167

Answer 7

Lucio: I was once before him for getting a wench with child.
Duke: Did you such a thing?
Lucio: Yes, marry, did I; but I was fain to forswear it;
they would else have married me to the rotter medlar.

Question 8

5:1, 512

Answer 8

Lucio: I beseech your Highness, do not marry me to a whore.
[…]
Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging.

Duke: Slandering a prince deserves it.