'Tis Pity

Question 1

opening line of the play

Answer 1

Dispute no more in this

Question 2

description of G’s soul

Answer 2

burdened soul

Question 3

description of G’s mind/ heart

Answer 3

the storehouse of my thoughts and heart

Question 4

G’s justification of being allowed to love A

Answer 4

Must I not do what all men else may - love?

Question 5

Friar’s cure for G’s sins

Answer 5

Repentance, son, and sorrow for this sin

Question 6

Friar’s reaction to G’s love for A

Answer 6

Hast thou left the schools/ Of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?

Question 7

Grimaldi’s insult to Vasques

Answer 7

Thou art no equal match for me

Question 8

Vasques’ insult to Grimaldi

Answer 8

thou poor shadow of a soldier

Question 9

Putana’s opinion of Soranzo

Answer 9

Liberal, that I know […] and a man sure

Question 10

Bergetto’s childish language

Answer 10

mine uncle says

Question 11

Putana being suggestive

Answer 11

They say a fool’s bauble is a lady’s playfellow

Question 12

A’s first sight of G

Answer 12

blessed shape
celestial creature
sad aspect

Question 13

A’s descriptions of G’s woeful behaviour

Answer 13

he beats his breast, and wipes his eyes/ Drowned all in tears

Question 14

G being dramatic

Answer 14

I must speak, or burst

Question 15

G’s decision

Answer 15

I’ll tell her that I love her

Question 16

G indicating A is embarrassed

Answer 16

I hope you need not blush to walk with me

Question 17

G’s classic images of love

Answer 17

The lily and the rose, most sweetly strange,/ Upon your dimpled cheeks do strive for change

Question 18

G being pressurising to A

Answer 18

‘tis my destiny/ That you must either love, or I must die

Question 19

G’s view of him and A as brother and sister

Answer 19

[they] share one beauty to a double soul

Question 20

A’s description of her heart

Answer 20

My captive heart had long ago resolved

Question 21

A’s confession of love

Answer 21

I blush to tell thee (but I’ll tell thee now),/ For every sigh that thou hast spent for me,/ I have sighed ten; for every tear shed twenty

Question 22

Giovanni’s opinion of the love-test

Answer 22

I would not change this minute for Elysium

Question 23

Bergetto’s childishness

Answer 23

[he] said he loved her almost as well as he loved parmesan

Question 24

G’s opinion of virginity

Answer 24

this pretty toy called maidenhead/ So strange a loss, when, being lost, ‘tis nothing,/ And you are still the same

Question 25

P's reaction to G and A sleeping together

Answer 25

Nay, what a paradise of joy have you passed under!

Question 26

H looking down on A

Answer 26

My birth was nobler

Question 27

S's insult to H

Answer 27

thou hast digressed from honest shame

Question 28

R plotting against S

Answer 28

Soranzo is the man that hath her heart ... I'll provide a poison/ To dip your rapier's point in

Question 29

Friar's reaction to G's continued love for A

Answer 29

``` Thou hast told a tale whose every word/ Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul [...] But Heaven is angry ... thou'rt too far sold to hell ```

Question 30

G blaming the Friar

Answer 30

It is a principle, which you have taught

Question 31

A mocks S

Answer 31

S: Did you but see my heart, then you would swear - A: That you were dead

Question 32

S's feelings about A

Answer 32

I'm sick, and sick to th' heart

Question 33

A's opinion of S's looks

Answer 33

if mine eyes/ Could have picked out a man amongst all those/ That sued to me, to make a husband of,/ You should have been that man

Question 34

A's promise to marry S

Answer 34

It shall be you or nothing

Question 35

Grimaldi being cunning

Answer 35

Where merit cannot sway, policy must

Question 36

what Philotis gives to Bergetto

Answer 36

sweetmeats, or dainty devices

Question 37

Bergetto's innocence

Answer 37

I have a monstrous swelling about my stomach

Question 38

when Bergetto gets stabbed

Answer 38

O, I am going the wrong way sure, my belly aches so!

Question 39

the Cardinal's description of Grimaldi

Answer 39

He is no common ma, but nobly born

Question 40

the Friar foreshadowing the reveal of the pregnancy

Answer 40

Long prosper in this day

Question 41

an indication that A isn't happy to be marrying S

Answer 41

Cheer up, my love

Question 42

G's reaction at A marrying S

Answer 42

to see my love/ Clipped by another, I would dare confusion/ And stand the horror of ten thousand deaths

Question 43

Hippolita foreshadowing the ending

Answer 43

may thy bed/ Of marriage be a rack unto thy heart

Question 44

S saying G didn't love A like he did

Answer 44

Well he might lust, but never loved like me

Question 45

S wanting revenge

Answer 45

all my blood/ Is fired in swift revenge