Act 2 quotes

• 'Man stands stands amazed to see his deformity in any other creature but himself' -B
• 'I look no higher than I can reach' -B
• 'What thing is in this outward form of man to be beloved?'
• 'A rotten and dead body, we delight to hide it in rich tissue' - B
• 'She pukes, her stomach seethes'
• 'Search the greatest heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water'
• 'The Duchess used one when she was great with child' -B

  'I think she did' - D
• 'Oh you jest!' - D
• 'Tis a pretty art this grafting' -B

  'Tis so - a bettering of nature' -D
• 'How greedily she eats them!' -B
• 'Oh, my trusty Delio, we are lost!' -A
• 'I am lost in amazement!' -A
• 'Most vulturous eating'

  'Breeding' -B
• Women marry for 'Precious reward' - B
• 'The devil takes delight to hang at a woman's girdle' - B
• Stichomythia between servants - chaos

  'A Switzer in the Duchess's bedchamber'

  'With a pistol in his codpiece!'
• 'She's exposed unto the worst of torture, pain, and fear' - A
• 'How I do play the fool with mine own danger!' -A
• 'How superstitiously we mind our evils!' -Delio
• 'Saucy slave! I'll pull thee up by the roots!' -A
• 'Impudent snake' -A
• Child's astrology

  'Signifies a short life'

  'Doth threaten a violent death'
• Personification of lust

  'She's oft found witty, but is never wise'
• 'View another spacious world i'th' moon and look to find a constant woman there.' -C
• 'I have taken you off your melancholy perch, bore you upon my fist, and showed you game, and let you fly at it.' -C
• 'Just like one that hath a little fingering on the lute, yet cannot tune it.' -C
• When Ferdinand gets the letter that the Duchess has married he is described as 'out of his wits'
• 'A sister damned' -F

  'Notorious strumpet' -F
• 'Why do you make yourself so wild a tempest?' -C to F
• 'Root up her goodly forests, blast her meads, and lay her general territory as waste' -F
• 'Shall our blood - the royal blood of Aragon and Castille - be thus attainted?' -C
• 'Infected blood' -F
• 'My imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin'

  'Strong-thighed bargeman' -F
• 'Whore's milk' 'Whore's blood' -F
• 'I can be angry without this rupture' -C
• 'so beastly, so deformed as doth intemperate anger' - C to F
• 'Are you stark mad?' -C to F
• 'I'll find scorpions to string my whips and fix her a general eclipse.' -F