Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, In restless ecstasy.* Duncan is in his grave; Macbeth's Terror at the Ghost of Banquo. What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, ACT IV. Malcolm's Description of the Character of Macbeth. I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. The Qualities which become a King. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, *Mental torture. + Inhibit means to forbid; the original reading is inhabit then. Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. A Distracted Kingdom. Alas, poor country : Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot Be call'd our mother, but our grave: where nothing, Is there scarce ask'd, for who; and good men's lives ACT V. Lady Macbeth in the Sleep-walking Scene. GENTLEWOMAN. Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep. her stand close. DOCTOR. HOW came she by that light? Observe GENTLEWOMAN. Why, it stood by her she has light by her continually; 'tis her command. DOCTOR. You see, her eyes are open. Gentlewoman. Ay, but their sense is shut. DOCTOR. What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. GENTLEWOMAN. It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands; I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. LADY MACBETH. Yet here's a spot. DOCTOR. Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. LADY MACBETH. Out, damned spot! out, I say !— One; two; why, then, 'tis time to do't:- -Hell is murky !- Fie, my lord; fie! a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? DOCTOR. Do you mark that? LADY MACBETH. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?What, will these hands neʼer be clean ?—No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting. DOCTOR. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. GENTLEWOMAN. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she has known. LADY MACBETH. Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh oh oh! DOCTOR. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. GENTLEWOMAN. I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. DOCTOR. Well, well, well, GENTLEWOMAN. 'Pray God it be, sir. DOCTOR. This disease is beyond my practice: yet 1 have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds. LADY MACBETH. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale:-I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave. DOCTOR. Even so. LADY MACBETH. To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what's done, cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed. Despised Old Age. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. Diseases of the Mind Incurable. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Macbeth's Defiance of the Hostile Army. Till famine and the ague eat them up: Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home. Reflections on Life. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. -000 TIMON OF ATHENS. Timon, a noble Athenian, lavishes his wealth on a host of flatterers whose worthlessness he discovers when misfortunes overtake him. Convinced of the heartlessness of his professed friends, he revenges himself on them by inviting them to a banquet, at which the dishes contain nothing but hot water, which he flings in the faces of his guests, and himself retires to the woods and becomes a confirmed misanthrope. In the meantime Alcibiades, an Athenian general, has been banished from Athens by the Senate for too vehemently interceding on behalf of a friend under sentence of death. The banished general levies an army and besieges Athens, the gates of which are opened to him, and the play concludes with the death of Timon and the resolve of Alcibiades to punish his own and Timon's enemies. Apemantus, a churlish philosopher, and Flavius, Timon's steward, are, in addition to those named, somewhat prominent characters in the drama. Dr. Johnson speaks of this play as "a domestic tragedy which strongly fastens on the attention of the reader; in the plan there is not much art, but the incidents are natural, and the characters various and exact." Аст І. Friendship in Adversity. I AM not of that feather, to shake off I do know him |