
“MACBETHWe will proceed no further in this business.” You should look like an innocent flower, but be like the snake that hides underneath the flower. “Look like th’ innocent flower,But be the serpent under ‘t” Act 1 scene 5 lines 64-65 Your letter has transported me from the present moment, when who knows what will happen, and has made me feel like the future is already here. “Thy letters have transported me beyondThis ignorant present, and I feel nowThe future in the instant.” Act 1 scene 5 line 56-58 “Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the darkTo cry “Hold, hold!” ” Act 1 scene 5 lines 49-54Ĭome, thick night, and cover the world in the darkest smoke of hell, so that my sharp knife can’t see the wound it cuts open, and so heaven can’t peep through the darkness and cry, “No! Stop!” “Come to my woman’s breasts,And take my milk for gall,” act 1 scene 5 line 47-48Ĭome to my female breast and turn my mother’s milk into poisonous acid Thicken my blood and clog up my veins so I won’t feel remorse “make thick my blood.Stop up the access and passage to remorse” act 1 scene 5 lines 43 “Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty.” act 1 scene 5 lines 40-43Ĭome, you spirits that asist murderous thoughts, make me less like a woman and more like a man, and fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty!

Hurry home so I can persuade you and talk you out of whatever’s keeping you from going after the crown “Hie thee hither,That I may pour my spirits in thine earAnd chastise with the valor of my tongueAll that impedes thee from the golden round” act 1 scene 5 lines 25-28
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You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity “yet do i fear that thy nature,It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way” Act1 scene 5 lines 16-18īut I worry about whether or not you have what it takes to seize the crown.
