So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on 't.
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard; what's done is done.
We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.
Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well:
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.
In them Nature's copy's not eterne.
A deed of dreadful note.
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
The air-drawn dagger.
The time has been,
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.
I drink to the general joy o' the whole table.
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!
A thing of custom,--'t is no other;
Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,--
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir'd disorder.
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Macb. What is the night?
L. Macb. Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
My little spirit, see,
Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.