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Theseus
Hippolyta is the Queen of the Amazons who becomes the Duchess of Athens after marrying Theseus. Like her younger sister Emilia, Hippolyta is compassionate and merciful. She joins Emilia in convincing Theseus to travel to Thebes, conquer Creon, and help the Three Queens honor their fallen husbands. She also sympathizes with Arcite and Palamon and begs Theseus to spare their lives. Like Emilia, Hippolyta refuses to valorize the cousins’ chivalric efforts to secure Emilia’s hand in marriage. Instead, Hippolyta laments the cousins’ irrationality in allowing their infatuation with Emilia to come between their loving friendship.
Hippolyta Quotes in The Two Noble Kinsmen
The The Two Noble Kinsmen quotes below are all either spoken by Hippolyta or refer to Hippolyta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, Scene 3
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Their knot of love,
Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long,
And with a finger of so deep a cunning,
May be outworn, never undone. I think
Theseus cannot be umpire to himself,
Cleaving his conscience into twin and doing
Each side like justice, which he loves best.
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You’re out of breath,
And this high-speeded pace is but to say
That you shall never—like the maid Flavina—
Love any that’s called man.
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Act 2, Scene 2
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Men are mad things.
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Act 4, Scene 2
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’Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.—
O, my soft-hearted sister, what think you?
Weep not till they weep blood. Wench, it must be.
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Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins
Loses a noble cousin for thy sins.
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Act 5, Scene 3
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Infinite pity
That four such eyes should be so fixed on one
That two must needs be blind for ‘t.
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Hippolyta Quotes in The Two Noble Kinsmen
The The Two Noble Kinsmen quotes below are all either spoken by Hippolyta or refer to Hippolyta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, Scene 3
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Their knot of love,
Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long,
And with a finger of so deep a cunning,
May be outworn, never undone. I think
Theseus cannot be umpire to himself,
Cleaving his conscience into twin and doing
Each side like justice, which he loves best.
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You’re out of breath,
And this high-speeded pace is but to say
That you shall never—like the maid Flavina—
Love any that’s called man.
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Act 2, Scene 2
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Men are mad things.
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Act 4, Scene 2
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’Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.—
O, my soft-hearted sister, what think you?
Weep not till they weep blood. Wench, it must be.
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Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins
Loses a noble cousin for thy sins.
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Act 5, Scene 3
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Infinite pity
That four such eyes should be so fixed on one
That two must needs be blind for ‘t.
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