'Tis Pity-the opening debate

Quotes on the debate between Giovanni and the Friar

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First lines of the play

Friar

'Dispute no more in this'

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Obedience

Friar

'For better 'tis to bless the sun, than reason why it shines'

2 of 9

Honesty

Giovanni

'Gentle father, to you I have unclapsed my burdened soul'

3 of 9

Love

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

4 of 9

Fondly overcome with female charm?

'That beauty which, if framed anew, the gods would make a god of if they had it there'

5 of 9

Foreshadow

'Why, foolish madman'

6 of 9

It's natural

'By the links of blood, of reason...to be ever one, one soul, one flesh, one heart, one all?'

7 of 9

Already fallen

'Hast thou left the scools of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?'

'For death waits on thy lust'

8 of 9

Irony

'free me from the rod of vengeance'

9 of 9

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