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Macbeth 100 Quotes Flashcards

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“Fair is foul, and foul is ____”. Complete the quotation.

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

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“Hail brave ______” (Sergeant speaking about Macbeth). Complete the quotation.

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“Hail brave friend!”

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Macbeth “________ [Macdonwald] from the nave to th’ chops”.

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Macbeth “unseamed [Macdonwald] from the nave to th’ chops”.

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“Why do you dress me in _______ robes?”. Complete the quotation.

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“Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”

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“to win us to our harm, the instruments of ________ tell us truths, win us with honest”. Complete the quotation.

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“to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles”

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“This supernatural __________ cannot be ill, cannot be good”. Complete the quotation.

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“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good”

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“Whose horrid image doth _____ my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs”. Complete the quotation.

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“Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs”

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“Present fears are less than horrible __________’”. Complete the quotation.

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“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings’”

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“If ______ will have me king, why ______ may crown me”. Complete the quotation.

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“If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me”

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“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else ________”. Complete the quotation.

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“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap”

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“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep _______.” Complete the quotation.

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“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

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“yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the ____ of human kindness”. Complete the quotation.

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“yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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“Art not without ambition, but without the _______ should attend it”. Complete the quotation.

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“Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it”

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“_____ me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst _______!”. Complete the quotation.

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“unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!”

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“Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for ____, you murdering ministers”. Complete the quotation.

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“Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers”

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“look like the innocent flower, but be the _______ under’t”. Complete the quotation.

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“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

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“All our service in every point twice done and then done ______”. Complete the quotation.

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“All our service in every point twice done and then done double”

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“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done _______”. Complete the quotation.

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“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly”

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“We still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the ________”. Complete the quotation.

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“We still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor”

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“his _______ will plead like angels”. Complete the quotation.

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“his virtues will plead like angels”

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“________ ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other”. Complete the quotation.

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“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other”

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“We will proceed no further in this ________”. Complete the quotation.

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“We will proceed no further in this business”

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“Was the hope _____ wherein you dress’d yourself?” Complete the quotation.

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“Was the hope drunk wherein you dress’d yourself?”

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“When you _____ do it, then you were a man;” Complete the quotation.

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“When you durst do it, then you were a man;”

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“I have given _____, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and _________ the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.” Complete the quotation.

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“I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.”

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“screw your _______ to the sticking-place,” Complete the quotation.

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“screw your courage to the sticking-place,”

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“_____ face must hide what the _____ heart doth know.” Complete the quotation.

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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

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“art thou but a dagger of the ____, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” Complete the quotation.

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“art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

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“There’s no such thing: It is the ______ business which informs Thus to mine eyes”. Complete the quotation.

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“There’s no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes”

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“Had he not resembled My ______ as he slept, I had done’t.” Complete the quotation.

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“Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t.”

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“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder _____”. Complete the quotation.

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“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”

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“wash this ______ witness from your hand.” Complete the quotation.

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“wash this filthy witness from your hand.”

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“I’ll go no more: I am ______ to think what I have done;” Complete the quotation.

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“I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done;”

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“Will all great _______’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” Complete the quotation.

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

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“My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so _____.” Complete the quotation.

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“My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

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“O ______, ______, ______!” Complete the quotation.

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“O horror, horror, horror!”

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“His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gash’d stabs look’d like a ______ in nature”. Complete the quotation.

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“His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature”

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“____ me hence, ho!” Complete the quotation.

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“Help me hence, ho!”

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“There’s _______ in men’s smiles:” Complete the quotation.

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“There’s daggers in men’s smiles:”

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“dark night _________ the travelling lamp:” Complete the quotation.

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“Sore night […] dark night strangles the travelling lamp:”

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“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing ___ hawk’d at and kill’d.” Complete the quotation.

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“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.”

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“‘Tis said [Duncan’s horses] ___ each other.” Complete the quotation.

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“‘Tis said [Duncan’s horses] eat each other.”

43
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“I fear, Thou play’dst most ______ for’t:”Complete the quotation.

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“I fear, Thou play’dst most foully for’t:”

44
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“Our fears in Banquo stick ____”. Complete the quotation.

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“Our fears in Banquo stick deep”

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“Upon my head they placed a _________ crown, And put a ______ sceptre in my gripe,” Complete the quotation.

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“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,”

46
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“No ___ of mine succeeding.” Complete the quotation.

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“No son of mine succeeding.”

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“Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without _______:” Complete the quotation.

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“Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content:”

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“what’s done is ____.” Complete the quotation.

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“what’s done is done.”

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“We have _______ the snake, not killed it:” Complete the quotation.

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“We have scotch’d the snake, not killed it:”

50
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“the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us _______”. Complete the quotation.

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“the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly”

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“O, full of _________ is my mind, dear wife!” Complete the quotation.

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“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

52
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“Be ________ of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed”. Complete the quotation.

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“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed”

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I am cabin’d, cribb’d, ________, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.” Complete the quotation.

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“I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

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“There the grown serpent lies; the ____ that’s fled”. Complete the quotation.

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“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled”

55
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“never shake thy ____ locks at me.” Complete the quotation.

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“never shake thy gory locks at me.”

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“Are you a ___?” Complete the quotation.

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“Are you a man?”

57
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“_____of you has done this?” Complete the quotation.

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“Which of you has done this?”

58
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“This is the very ________ of your fear”. Complete the quotation.

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“This is the very painting of your fear”

59
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“It will have _____; they say, _____ will have _____:” Complete the quotation.

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“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:”

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“I am in blood _______ in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er:” Complete the quotation.

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“I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er:”

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“We are yet but young in ____.” Complete the quotation.

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“We are yet but young in deed.”

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“Double, double toil and _______; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” Complete the quotation.

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“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

63
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“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something ______ this way comes.” Complete the quotation.

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“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”

64
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“How now, you secret, _____, and midnight hags!” Complete the quotation.

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“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”

65
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“I _______ you”. Complete the quotation.

A

“I conjure you”

66
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“Thy crown does ____ mine eyeballs.” Complete the quotation.

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“Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs.”

67
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“blood-boltered ______ smiles upon me”. Complete the quotation.

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“blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me”

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“I am in this earthly world; where to do ____ is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly”. Complete the quotation.

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“I am in this earthly world; where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly”

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“This tyrant, whose sole name ________ our tongues,” Complete the quotation.

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“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,”

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“_____, _____, poor country!” Complete the quotation.

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“Bleed, bleed, poor country!”

71
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“_____ Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms.” Complete the quotation.

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“black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms.”

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“O ______ miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d,” Complete the quotation.

A

“O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d,”

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“Macduff, this noble passion, child of _________, hath from my soul wiped the black scruples.” Complete the quotation.

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“Macduff, this noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my soul wiped the black scruples”

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“All my pretty ________ and their dam at one fell swoop?” Complete the quotation.

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“All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?”

75
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“But I must also feel it as a ___:” Complete the quotation.

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“But I must also feel it as a man:”

76
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“Macbeth Is ____ for shaking”. Complete the quotation.

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“Macbeth Is ripe for shaking”

77
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“Out, ______ spot! out, I say!” Complete the quotation.

A

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

78
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“The thane of ____ had a wife: where is she now?” Complete the quotation.

A

“The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?”

79
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“all the perfumes of ______ will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!” Complete the quotation.

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“all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”

80
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“infected minds to their deaf pillows _________ their secrets”. Complete the quotation.

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“infected minds to their deaf pillows discharge their secrets”

81
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“Now does he feel his secret murders ________ on his hands;” Complete the quotation.

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“Now does he feel his secret murders sticking on his hands;”

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“now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a ________ thief.” Complete the quotation.

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“now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.”

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“To dew the sovereign flower and _____ the weeds.” Complete the quotation.

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“To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.”

84
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“Bring me no more reports; let them ___ all:” Complete the quotation.

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“Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:”

85
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“my way of life is fall’n into the ____, the yellow leaf;” Complete the quotation.

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“my way of life is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf;”

86
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“____ those that talk of fear.” Complete the quotation.

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“Hang those that talk of fear.”

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“Throw physic to the ____; I’ll none of it.” Complete the quotation.

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“Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.”

88
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“I have almost forgot the taste of _____;”Complete the quotation.

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“I have almost forgot the taste of fears;”

89
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“I have ______ full with horrors”. Complete the quotation.

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“I have supp’d full with horrors”

90
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“She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. _________, and _________, and _________,” Complete the quotation.

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“She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,”

91
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“Out, out, brief ______! Life’s but a walking shadow” Complete the quotation.

A

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow”

92
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“it is a tale told by an _____, full of sound and fury, Signifying _______.” Complete the quotation.

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“it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

93
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“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, but, ____-like, I must fight the course”. Complete the quotation.

A

“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, but, bear-like, I must fight the course”

94
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“my soul is too much _______ with blood of [Macduff] already.” Complete the quotation.

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“my soul is too much charged with blood of [Macduff] already.”

95
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“I bear a _______ life, which must not yield, to one of woman born.” Complete the quotation.

A

“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield, to one of woman born.”

96
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“Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ______.” Complete the quotation.

A

“Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d.”

97
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`“be these ________ fiends no more believed,” Complete the quotation.

A

`“be these juggling fiends no more believed,”

98
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“I will try the last. Before my body I throw my _______ shield.” Complete the quotation.

A

“I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield.”

99
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“this dead _______ and his fiend-like queen,” Complete the quotation.

A

“this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,”

100
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“by the grace of _____, we will perform in measure, time and place”. Complete the quotation.

A

“by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and place”

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