Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape, Our lack is nothing but our leave: Macbeth Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may; The night is long, that never finds the day. ACT V. SCENE.-Enter Lady MACBETH, with ^ per. Gent. Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep. stand close. Doct. How came she by that light? Observe her. Gent. Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; 'tis her command. Doct. You see her eyes are open. Gent. Ay, but their sense is shut. Doct. What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. Gent. It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands; I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. Lady M. Yet here's a spot. Doct. Hark, she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Lady M. Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One; Two; Why, then 'tis time to do't: -Hell is murky!*-Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afear'd? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M The thane of Fife had a wife; Where is she now?--What, will these hands ne'er be clean? * Dark. -No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: You mar all with this starting. Docl. Go to, go tɔ; you have known what you should not. Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: Heaven knows what she has known. Lady M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh! Doct. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. Gent. I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the dignity of the whole body. Doct. Well, well, well, Gent. 'Pray God, it be, sir. Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds. Lady M. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale:-I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave. Doct. Even so? Lady M. To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate. Čome, come, come, come, give me your hand; What's done, cannot be undone: To bed, to bed, to bed. DESPISED OLD AGE. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear,* the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not DISEASES OF THE MIND INCURABLE. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, REFLECTIONS ON LIFE. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. OTHELLO. ACT I. ས PREFERMENT. 'TIS the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, IAGO'S DISPRAISE OF HONESTY. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Whip me such honest knaves: Others there are, Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul; For sir, It is as sure as you are Roderigo, * But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhousedt free condition OTHELLO'S DESCRIPTION ΤΟ THE SENATE OF HIS Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech In speaking for myself: Yet, by your gracious p tience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjurations, and what mighty magic, (For such proceeding I am charg'd withal) * Outward show of civility. Best exertion. † Unsettled. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortunes, I ran it through, even from my boyish days, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery: of my redemption thence, * These things to hear, Would Desdemona seriously incline: But still the house affairs would draw her thence; She swore,-In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd, she had not heard it: yet she wish'd That heaven had made her sucn a man: she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, My behaviour. † Parts. Intention and attention were once synonymous. |