Shakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth, with explanatory notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter |
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Attendants Birnam Birnam wood blood born Cæsar CAITHNESS caldron called Castle crown Cymbeline daggers dare dead death deed Doct Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane England Enter LADY MACBETH Enter MACBETH Exeunt Exit eyes father fear Fleance Forres foul friends Gent give Glamis grace hail hand hang hast hath hear heart heaven HECATE Henry IV Holinshed Holinshed's honour hurlyburly Julius Cæsar King Lear King of Scotland king's Knocking LADY MACDUFF Lear LENOX Limbeck lives look lord Macb Macd Macduff Malcolm means mind murder nature night noble nobleman of Scotland old SIWARD Othello Palace play pray Ross SCENE Scone Servant Seyton Shakspeare Shakspeare's shalt sight signified slain sleep Soldiers speak strange sword thane of Cawdor thee There's thine things Thou art thought to-night traitor tyrant unto weird sisters wife Witch woman wood word wouldst
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Page 21 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition — but without The illness should attend it : what thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily : wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : Thou 'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, " Thus thou must do, if thou have it;" And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 24 - Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 13 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.
Page 38 - I hear a knocking At the south entry — retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it then ? Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 23 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold !
Page 17 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 14 - I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 58 - s to be done ? Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their prey do rouse.
Page 16 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 73 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...