...olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd, Too terrible for the ear : the times have been That,...stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is." Again roused from reverie by his wife, he excuses his behaviour by the same reference to a customary...

...gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The times has been That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY My worthy lord, Your noble friends do kck you. MACBETH I do forget. Do not muse at me, my most worthy...

...sure, yet much unhappily (Hml. IV, 5, 1 2 Qq). Instead of the first might read, with F, would. . . . but now they rise again, \ With twenty mortal murders...stools: this is more strange \ Than such a murder is (Mcb. III, 4, 81). Instead of murders read, with Lettsom, gashes. . . . This drives me to entreat you...

...application little intended by the writer. " My dear Lawley, The times hare been, That when the brains woro out the man -would die, . And there an end ; but now...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (" Ay ' push us from our stools,' " repeated Lawley bitterly.) " You at least will rejoice to hear...

...weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, 80 That, when the brains were out, the man would die,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth My worthy lord, 85 Your noble friends do lack you. Macbeth I do forget. Do not muse at me,...

...for shame! MACBETH. Blood hath been shed before now, ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd too terrible for the ear: the times have been, that,...would die, and there an end; but now they rise again and push us from our table: this is more strange than such a murder is. (She quiets him and hides their...

...performed Too terrible for the ear. The times has been, That when the brains were out the man would die, 80 And there an end; but now they rise again With twenty...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY MACBETH My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. MACBETH I do forget: Do not muse at me, my...

...for shame! Macbeth. The times has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there a end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth. My worthy Lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macbeth. I do forget . . .. (He speaks to...

...looked on them as legally dead ; as unsubstantial, almost ideal beings ; the mere ghosts of episcopacy. The times have been That when the brains were out...murders on their crowns, And push US from our stools. ' Letter I. p. 185. a Ibid. [i. 155. 496 T. Gisborne's Letter to the [34 But surely, Sir, it ill became...

...Banquo. People are very hard to kill in Shakespeare. Well might Macbeth long for the good old days when the brains were out the man would die, And there...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.79-82) Caesar, Hamlet's father, Banquo— all return from the dead to haunt the living. The point...