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Guess the scene and the speaker/ or who the quotation describes. (and don’t use your books!)

This should help with the order of the play, basically getting the action in the right places. :P'

1. “Alas, what pleasure can two lovers find in sleep?”

2. “I am the Duchess of Malfi still”

3. “What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut with diamonds, or to be smothered with cassia, or to be shot dead with pearls?”

4. “ ‘Twas nothing but pure kindness in the devil, To rock his own child”

5. “The only court-gall”

6. “Some fellows, they say, are possessed with the great devil, but this great fellow was able to possess the greatest devil.”

7. “Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens”

8. “Diamonds are of most value They say, that have pass'd through most jewellers Hands”

9. "Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."

10. “Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young”

11. “He and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools”

12. “You gave the Duchess apricots today, Pray heaven they were not poisoned”

13. “But it shows a fearful madness. I owe her much pity”

14. “I prithee When were we so merry?”

15. “Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me-”

16. “Or else to boil their bastard to a cullis And give’t his lecherous father to renew The sin of his back”

17. “She’s an excellent Feeder of pedigrees:”

18. “Farewell, lust widow”

19. “You fear my constancy because you have approved Those giddy and wold turnings in yourself.”

20. “This was my fathers Poinard: do you see?”

21. “Shall our blood, The royal blood of Aragon and Castile, Be thus attainted?”

22. “You are a villain”

23. “Indeed I thank him: nothing but noise and folly Can keep me in my right wits”

24. “So you have some virgins That are witches. I will never see thee more.”

25. “Yes, if I could change eyes with a basilisk”

26. “Thou art a dead thing”

27. “Integrity of life is fame’s best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.”

28. “Their very names Kindle a little life in me-”

“Are murdered!”

~Nai

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