Act 1 Flashcards
Sc1
When shall we 3 meet again
In thunder, lightning or in rain?
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthily air.
For Brave Macbeth …
Disdaining fortune
Like valour’s minion carved out his passage
Till he unseam’d him
Sc2
O valiant cousin!
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
…go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.
Sc3
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
All hail, Macbeth, thane of Glamis!
All hail, Macbeth, thane of Cawdor!
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequences.
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.
Sc4
Welcome hither:
I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing.
The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else overleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires
Let not light see my black and deep desires
dearest partner of greatness
Sc5
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:
…the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown’d withal
Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the top-full
Of direst cruelty
Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t
Sc7
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor
When you durst do it, then you were a man:
To love the babe that milks me…
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out.
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.
