 | Alan England - Drama - 1981 - 268 pages
...presenting it. Macbeth's first speech on re-entry faces the actor with a crucial choice of interpretation: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Is the character genuinely appalled by what he has done or is he putting on an act? Should he try to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...Macbeth Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant 100 There's nothing serious in mortality All is but toys:...this vault to brag of. [Enter Malcolm and Donalbain] Donalbain What is amiss? l°5 Macbeth You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain... | |
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I 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. 
