All 20 Uses of
parasitic
in
Volpone
- ] Take of my hand; thou strik'st on truth in all, And they are envious term thee parasite.†
Act 1
- O! your parasite Is a most precious thing, dropt from above, Not bred 'mongst clods, and clodpoles, here on earth.†
Act 3
- I muse, the mystery was not made a science, It is so liberally profest! almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites, or sub-parasites.†
Act 3
- I muse, the mystery was not made a science, It is so liberally profest! almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites, or sub-parasites.†
Act 3
- This is the creature had the art born with him; Toils not to learn it, but doth practise it Out of most excellent nature: and such sparks Are the true parasites, others but their zanis.†
Act 3
- VOLT: Parasite!†
Act 3
- BON: His parasite, His knave, his pandar—I beseech the court, He may be forced to come, that your grave eyes May bear strong witness of his strange impostures.†
Act 4
- CORB: I am cozen'd, cheated, by a parasite slave; Harlot, thou hast gull'd me.†
Act 5
- ] VOLT: Outstript thus, by a parasite! a slave, Would run on errands, and make legs for crumbs?†
Act 5
- ] VOLP: But is this true, sir, of the parasite?†
Act 5
- I never brook'd That parasite's hair; methought his nose should cozen: There still was somewhat in his look, did promise The bane of a clarissimo.†
Act 5
- That parasite, That knave, hath been the instrument of all.†
Act 5
- VOLT: O no, none: The parasite, grave fathers.†
Act 5
- Him that they call the parasite.
Act 5 *parasite = a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them
- CORB: So is the parasite too.†
Act 5
- ] VOLP: The parasite will straight be here, grave fathers.†
Act 5
- ]: Sir, the parasite Will'd me to tell you, that his master lives; That you are still the man; your hopes the same; And this was only a jest— VOLT: How?†
Act 5
- 1 AVOC: Is he not guilty then, Whom you there name the parasite?†
Act 5
- 2 AVOC: Disrobe that parasite.†
Act 5
- Stand forth; and first the parasite: You appear T'have been the chiefest minister, if not plotter, In all these lewd impostures; and now, lastly, Have with your impudence abused the court, And habit of a gentleman of Venice, Being a fellow of no birth or blood: For which our sentence is, first, thou be whipt; Then live perpetual prisoner in our gallies.†
Act 5
Definition:
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(parasite) a species that lives on (or in) another species and eats from it without providing return benefit
or:
a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them