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... Scotland , riding through a wood , there stood before them three women , fairies or nymphs , and sa- luted Macbeth , saying three times unto him , Hail , Macbeth , king of Codor , for thou shall be a king , but shall beget no kings ...
... Scotland , riding through a wood , there stood before them three women , fairies or nymphs , and sa- luted Macbeth , saying three times unto him , Hail , Macbeth , king of Codor , for thou shall be a king , but shall beget no kings ...
Page vii
... Scotland , and at Dunscenanyse overthrew Macbeth . In the mean time , while Macduff was in England , Macbeth slew Macduff's wife and children , and after , in the battle , Macduff slew Macbeth . Observe also how Macbeth's queen did rise ...
... Scotland , and at Dunscenanyse overthrew Macbeth . In the mean time , while Macduff was in England , Macbeth slew Macduff's wife and children , and after , in the battle , Macduff slew Macbeth . Observe also how Macbeth's queen did rise ...
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... Scotland , was Holinshed's Chronicle . The details of Duncan's murder are evidently borrowed from Holinshed's account of the murder of King Duffe by Donwald , which we give here at length , together with the narrative of his pining away ...
... Scotland , was Holinshed's Chronicle . The details of Duncan's murder are evidently borrowed from Holinshed's account of the murder of King Duffe by Donwald , which we give here at length , together with the narrative of his pining away ...
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... Scotland , pp . 206-209 , ed . 1577. ) The sentence last quoted is clearly the origin of what Ross says in act ii . scene 4 : ' By the clock , ' tis day , And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp , ' & c . The other natural ...
... Scotland , pp . 206-209 , ed . 1577. ) The sentence last quoted is clearly the origin of what Ross says in act ii . scene 4 : ' By the clock , ' tis day , And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp , ' & c . The other natural ...
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Angus Antony and Cleopatra Banquo blood called castle Compare King Lear Compare Richard Compare The Merchant conjectured Coriolanus Cotgrave Cymbeline death deed derived Dict DONALBAIN Duncan Dunsinane Dyce emendation England enimies Enter MACBETH Exeunt fear Fleance folios French gives hail Hamlet hand Hanmer hath haue heaven Hecate Henry Holinshed honour Johnson Julius Cæsar King John King Lear Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox lord Malcolm Malone means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream murder nature noble numbers Othello passage play Pope read quotes Romeo and Juliet Ross sayde scene Scotland Second Witch sense Seyton Shakespeare Siward slain sleep speak spelt Steevens strange syllable Tempest thane thane of Cawdor thee theyr things Third Witch thou thought Timon of Athens Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verb vnto vpon weird sisters wife Winter's Tale word ΙΟ
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Page 156 - fraught,' ' press'd.' Others, retaining 'stuff'd,' would alter 'stuff' to 'grief,' or 'matter,' or ' slough, ' or • freight.' 46. /'// none of it. The omission of the verb adds to the emphasis of the phrase. So Proverbs, i. 25 : ' But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof.
Page 74 - a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 10 - Banquo. That trusted home 120 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macbeth. [Aside] Two truths are told,
Page 74 - the proportion, the due proportion, as in Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. 87: ' The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order.
Page 43 - Doctor. Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand, They presently amend. Malcolm. I thank you, doctor. [Exit Doctor. Macduff. What's the disease he means? Malcolm. 'Tis call'd the evil:
Page 11 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, 11 had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN.
Page 159 - rouse, intransitive, as in iii. 2. 53. 13. As, as if. Compare King Lear, iii. 4. 15 : ' Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to 't?' For the sense of the passage compare Hamlet, iii. 4. 121: * Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Starts up, and stands an end.
Page 7 - Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO. Macbeth. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.