Measure Quotes Act 4

Question 1

4.1 Summary:

Answer 1

The Duke visits Mariana and arranges for Isabella to meet her - doesn’t tell Mariana about this. Isabella arrives, telling the Duke about Angelo’s garden/where the two plan to meet.

Isabella walks with Mariana, and tells her of the plan; she agrees to do it. The Duke tells her she wont be sinning.

Question 2

4.2 Summary:

Answer 2

Opens in via media, Pompey is hired as an executioner and talks to Abhorson about his role, the Duke tells the Provost about the substitution after receiving no news of a pardon from Angelo (rather the opposite).

Question 3

4.3 Summary:

Question 4

4.4 Summary:

Question 5

“Seals of love, though sealed in vain, sealed in vain” (4.1)

Question 6

“I cry you mercy, sir” (4.1)

Question 7

“I have sat here all day.” (4.1)

Question 8

“I am always bound to you” (4.1)

Question 9

“He hath a garden circummured with brick” / “planched gate” / “bigger key” / “command a little door” (4.1) - metaphor for Angelo’s own body.

Question 10

“With whispering and most guilty diligence” (4.1)

Question 11

“It is not my consent / but my entreaty too” (4.1)

Question 12

“Fear me not” / “Fear you not at all” (4.1)

Question 13

“To bring you thus together ‘tis no sin / Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit” (4.1)

Question 14

“Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tilth’s to sow” (4.1, symmetry/parallel)

Question 15

“but if he be a married man, he’s his wife’s head” (4.2, position of women)

Question 16

“a lawful hangman” (4.2)

Question 17

“go to, sir, you weigh equally, a father will turn the scale” (4.2)

Question 18

“Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores….” (4.2)

Question 19

“Every true man’s apparel fits your thief” / “If it be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief thinks it little enough. So every true man’s apparel fits your thief” (4.2)

Question 20

“The one has my pity, not a jot the other / Being a murderer, though he were my brother” (4.2)

Question 21

“Thou must be made immortal” (4.2)

Question 22

“I hope it is some pardon or reprieve / For the most gentle Claudio” (4.2)

Question 23

“What comfort is for Claudio?” / “There’s some in hope” (4.2)

Question 24

“It is a bitter deputy” / “his life is paralleled / Even with the stroke and line of his great justice […] holy abstinence subdue” (4.2)

Question 25

"which he spurs on his power / To qualify in others" / "he's just" (4.2)

Question 26

"This is a gentle Provost; seldom-when / The steeled gaoler is the friend of men" (4.2)

Question 27

"This is his pardon, purchased by such sin For which the pardoner himself is in" (4.2)

Question 28

"His friends still wrought reprieves for him" (4.2)

Question 29

"insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal" (4.2)

Question 30

"Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath sentenced him" (4.2)

Question 31

"O, death's a great disguiser" (4.2) / "I will plead against it with my life"

Question 32

"it is against my oath" (4.2)

Question 33

"but by chance nothing of what is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd" / "advise him for a better place" / "Come away" (4.2)