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Alonzo de Piracquo
Tomazo de Piracquo is Alonzo de Piracquo’s brother and close friend. After initially (and unsuccessfully) advising Alonzo to stay away from Beatrice, Tomazo becomes suspicious of Alonzo’s disappearance. As Tomazo tries to determine who might be guilty of harming his brother, he is forced to distrust everyone he encounters. Therefore, more than almost any other character in the show, Tomazo is aware of how misleading appearances can be: every person he meets claims innocence but seems to hide some measure of guilt, making it impossible for Tomazo to know what is actually true. In addition to his perceptive nature, Tomazo is also empathetic, able to forgive and bond with Alsemero and Vermandero as soon as he realizes they are not responsible for Alonzo’s death. Tomazo’s loyalty and commitment to his brother also marks him as one of the play’s most caring, selfless characters.
Tomazo de Piracquo Quotes in The Changeling
The The Changeling quotes below are all either spoken by Tomazo de Piracquo or refer to Tomazo de Piracquo. 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 2, Scene 1
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ALONZO: I should depart
An enemy, a dangerous, deadly one
To any but thyself, that should but think
She knew the meaning of inconstancy,
Much less the use practice; yet w’are friends.
Pray let no more be urg’d; I can endure
Much, till I meet an injury to her,
Then I am not myself. Farewell, sweet brother.
How much we are bound to heaven to depart lovingly.
Exit.
TOMAZO: Why, here is love's tame madness; thus a man
Quickly steals into his vexation.
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Act 5, Scene 2
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TOMAZO: I cannot taste the benefits of life
With the same relish I was wont to do.
Man I grow weary of, and hold his fellowship
A treacherous bloody friendship; and because
I am ignorant in whom my wrath should settle,
I must think all men villains, and the next
I meet, whoe’er he be, the murderer
Of my most worthy brother. –Ha! Who’s he?
Enter DeFlores, passes over the stage.
O the fellow that some call honest DeFlores;
But methinks honesty was hard bested
To come there for a lodging, as if a queen
Should make her palace of a pest-house.
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Act 5, Scene 3
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ALSEMERO: Here’s beauty chang’d
To ugly whoredom; here, servant obedience
Changed to a master sin, imperious murder;
I, a suppos’d husband, chang’d embraces
With wantonness, but that was paid before;
Your change is come too, from an ignorant wrath
To a knowing friendship. Are there any more on’s?
ANTONIO: Yes, sir; I was chang’d too, from a little ass as I was to a great fool as I am […]
FRANCISCUS: I was chang’d from a little wit to be stark mad,
Always for the same purpose.
Epilogue
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ALSEMERO: All we can do to comfort one another,
To stay a brother’s sorrow for a brother,
To dry a child from a kind father’s eyes,
Is to no purpose, it rather multiplies:
Your only smiles have power to cause relive
The dead again, or in their rooms to give
Brother a new brother, father a child;
If these appear, all griefs are reconcil’d.
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Tomazo de Piracquo Quotes in The Changeling
The The Changeling quotes below are all either spoken by Tomazo de Piracquo or refer to Tomazo de Piracquo. 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:
).
Act 2, Scene 1
Quotes
ALONZO: I should depart
An enemy, a dangerous, deadly one
To any but thyself, that should but think
She knew the meaning of inconstancy,
Much less the use practice; yet w’are friends.
Pray let no more be urg’d; I can endure
Much, till I meet an injury to her,
Then I am not myself. Farewell, sweet brother.
How much we are bound to heaven to depart lovingly.
Exit.
TOMAZO: Why, here is love's tame madness; thus a man
Quickly steals into his vexation.
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Explanation and Analysis:
Act 5, Scene 2
Quotes
TOMAZO: I cannot taste the benefits of life
With the same relish I was wont to do.
Man I grow weary of, and hold his fellowship
A treacherous bloody friendship; and because
I am ignorant in whom my wrath should settle,
I must think all men villains, and the next
I meet, whoe’er he be, the murderer
Of my most worthy brother. –Ha! Who’s he?
Enter DeFlores, passes over the stage.
O the fellow that some call honest DeFlores;
But methinks honesty was hard bested
To come there for a lodging, as if a queen
Should make her palace of a pest-house.
Related Characters:
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Explanation and Analysis:
Act 5, Scene 3
Quotes
ALSEMERO: Here’s beauty chang’d
To ugly whoredom; here, servant obedience
Changed to a master sin, imperious murder;
I, a suppos’d husband, chang’d embraces
With wantonness, but that was paid before;
Your change is come too, from an ignorant wrath
To a knowing friendship. Are there any more on’s?
ANTONIO: Yes, sir; I was chang’d too, from a little ass as I was to a great fool as I am […]
FRANCISCUS: I was chang’d from a little wit to be stark mad,
Always for the same purpose.
Epilogue
Quotes
ALSEMERO: All we can do to comfort one another,
To stay a brother’s sorrow for a brother,
To dry a child from a kind father’s eyes,
Is to no purpose, it rather multiplies:
Your only smiles have power to cause relive
The dead again, or in their rooms to give
Brother a new brother, father a child;
If these appear, all griefs are reconcil’d.
