Macbeth Flashcards
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If it were done,
when tis done, twere well it were done quickly
If th’ assassination
could trammel up the consequence and catch with his
surcease success,
that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here
but here
upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come.
but
in these cases we still have judgement here, that we but teach bloody instructions,
which, being taught,
return to plague th’ inventor.
This even-handed
justice commends th’ ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips.
He’s here in double trust:
first, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed;
then, as his host
o should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.
besides, this Duncan hath
borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office,
that his virtues
will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;
and pity
like a naked newborn babe striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air
I have no spur to prick
he sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erlaps itself and falls on th’ other—
shall blow the
horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind.
(Lady Macbeth enters)
How now, what news?
