| The Duchess of Malfi, The Duke | Most true:/He never pays debts unless they be shrewd turns,/And those he will confess that he doth owe. |
| The Duchess of Malfi, the Duke and the Cardinal | He speaks with others' tongues, and hears men's suits/With others' ears; will seem to sleep o' the bench/Only to entrap offenders in their answers;/Dooms men to death by information;/Rewards by hearsay. |
| The Duchess of Malfi, The Duchess | On that sweet countenance; but in that look/There speaketh so divine a continence/As cuts off all lascivious and vain hope./Her days are practis'd in such noble virtue, |
| Volpone, Corvino's description of Celia | Death of mine honour, with the city's fool!/A juggling, tooth-drawing, prating mountebank! |
| Volpone, Volpone's description of Corvino | Only for hope of gain, and that uncertain,/He would have sold his part of Paradise/For ready money, had he met a cope-man. |
