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... thought , by craft & arte of the Deuill : an other of them sat reciting certain words of enchauntment , & still basted the image with a certaine licour very busily . The souldiers finding them occupied in this wise , tooke them togither ...
... thought , by craft & arte of the Deuill : an other of them sat reciting certain words of enchauntment , & still basted the image with a certaine licour very busily . The souldiers finding them occupied in this wise , tooke them togither ...
Page xix
... thought till time and place shoulde better serue therevnto , and herevpon got them away euery man to his home . For the space of .vj . moneths togither after this haynous murder thus committed , there appeared no sunne by day , nor ...
... thought till time and place shoulde better serue therevnto , and herevpon got them away euery man to his home . For the space of .vj . moneths togither after this haynous murder thus committed , there appeared no sunne by day , nor ...
Page xx
... thought most worthie the gouernment of a realme . On the other parte , Duncan was so softe and gentle of nature , that the people wished the inclinations & maners of these two cousines to haue bene so tempered and enterchaungeably ...
... thought most worthie the gouernment of a realme . On the other parte , Duncan was so softe and gentle of nature , that the people wished the inclinations & maners of these two cousines to haue bene so tempered and enterchaungeably ...
Page xxviii
... thought with himselfe that he must tary a time , whiche shoulde aduaunce him thereto ( by the diuine prouidence ) as it had come to passe in his former preferment . Act I. Scene IV . ' But shortely after it chaunced that king Duncane ...
... thought with himselfe that he must tary a time , whiche shoulde aduaunce him thereto ( by the diuine prouidence ) as it had come to passe in his former preferment . Act I. Scene IV . ' But shortely after it chaunced that king Duncane ...
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... thought most able to worke him any displeasure . ' At length he found suche sweetenesse by putting his nobles 20 preconceived , predetermined . 22 imaginary quibble . 21 See note 2 . 28 fiercely . 29 lies 30 truthfulness . Act V ...
... thought most able to worke him any displeasure . ' At length he found suche sweetenesse by putting his nobles 20 preconceived , predetermined . 22 imaginary quibble . 21 See note 2 . 28 fiercely . 29 lies 30 truthfulness . Act V ...
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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.