Shakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth, with explanatory notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter |
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... ye must consider he wan double profit ( as he thought ) hereby : for first they were rid out of the way whom he feared , and then again his coffers use , were enriched by their goods , which were xviii EXTRACTS FROM HOLINSHED.
... ye must consider he wan double profit ( as he thought ) hereby : for first they were rid out of the way whom he feared , and then again his coffers use , were enriched by their goods , which were xviii EXTRACTS FROM HOLINSHED.
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... double cracks ; So they doubly redoubled1 strokes upon the foe . Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds , Or memorize another Golgotha , 2 I cannot tell.3 But I am faint , my gashes cry for help . Dun . So well thy words become ...
... double cracks ; So they doubly redoubled1 strokes upon the foe . Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds , Or memorize another Golgotha , 2 I cannot tell.3 But I am faint , my gashes cry for help . Dun . So well thy words become ...
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... double , Were poor and single business , to contend Against those honours , deep and broad , wherewith Your majesty loads our house : For those of old , And the late dignities heaped up to them , We rest your hermits.3 builds its nest ...
... double , Were poor and single business , to contend Against those honours , deep and broad , wherewith Your majesty loads our house : For those of old , And the late dignities heaped up to them , We rest your hermits.3 builds its nest ...
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... double trust : First , as I am his kinsman and his subject , Strong both against the deed ; then , as his host , Who should against his murderer shut the door , Not bear the knife myself . Besides , this Duncan Hath borne his faculties ...
... double trust : First , as I am his kinsman and his subject , Strong both against the deed ; then , as his host , Who should against his murderer shut the door , Not bear the knife myself . Besides , this Duncan Hath borne his faculties ...
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... double sense , The double guilt of his incontinence Might be expressed .'- Marlowe's Hero and Leander . England shall double gild his treble guilt .'— 2 K. Henry IV . , iv . 4 . For the gilt of France , O guilt , indeed ! ' - Henry V ...
... double sense , The double guilt of his incontinence Might be expressed .'- Marlowe's Hero and Leander . England shall double gild his treble guilt .'— 2 K. Henry IV . , iv . 4 . For the gilt of France , O guilt , indeed ! ' - Henry V ...
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armed Attendants Banquo bear better blood born bring called Castle cause Cawdor comes command crown dare dead death deed Doct double doubt Duncan Dunsinane England Enter Exeunt Exit eyes face father fear fight Fleance friends further give given grace hand hath head hear heart heaven hence highness hold Holinshed honour hope keep king king's Knocking Lady LADY MACBETH leave LENOX lives look lord Macb Macbeth Macd Macduff Malcolm matter means meet mind murder nature never night noble officers play poor pray present reason received reference rest Ross SCENE Scotland Servant Shakspeare's sight sisters Siward slain sleep Soldiers speak stand strange tell thane thee things thou thought unto weird wife Witch woman wood worthy
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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...