Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 7

Question 1

If it were done

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Bloody instructions

Answer 2

‘we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’

Question 3

Poison’d chalice

Answer 3

‘our poison’d chalice’
To our own lips’

Question 4

He’s here in double trust

Answer 4

‘He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murdererr shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself

Question 5

Vaulting ambition

Answer 5

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And fall on the other

Question 6

Proceed no further

Answer 6

We will proceed no further in this business

Question 7

Dress’d yourself

Answer 7

Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself

Question 8

I dare do all

Answer 8

I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none

Question 9

When you durst do it

Answer 9

When you durst do it, then youwere man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man

Question 10

I have given suck

Answer 10

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 dadh’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this

Question 11

Fail. Questions his manlihood

Answer 11

If we should fail
We fail
But screw your courage to the sticking-place
And we’ll not fail

Question 12

I am settled, and bend up

Answer 12

I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know