Comparison of William Shakespeare Macbeth 2.1 to William Shakespeare

Stand off then. Take my sword, I hold it better. [continues next]

[continues previous] Stand off then. Take my sword, I hold it better.

To see ‘em gone without her! Faith, she told me Her everlasting sleep would bring me joy, Yet I was still unwilling to believe her, Her life was so sweet to me: like some man [continues next]

[continues previous] To see ‘em gone without her! Faith, she told me Her everlasting sleep would bring me joy, Yet I was still unwilling to believe her, Her life was so sweet to me: like some man

I that am cruel am yet merciful, [continues next]

I would not have thee linger in thy pain. [continues next]

... fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hir’d; but I (his brother) gain nothing under him but growth, for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me, and the spirit of my father, which ... [continues next]

[continues previous] I would not have thee linger in thy pain.

[continues previous] ... are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hir’d; but I (his brother) gain nothing under him but growth, for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me, and the ...

Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who’s there? [continues next]

[continues previous] Here’s one, a friend, and one that knows you well.

And shut myself up in some other course, [continues next]

[continues previous] So shall I clothe me in a forc’d content,

[continues previous] And shut myself up in some other course,

... they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burnt in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanish’d. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the King, who all-hail’d me “Thane of Cawdor,” by which title, before, these weïrd sisters saluted me, and referr’d me to the coming on of time with “Hail, King that shalt be!” This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing by being ignorant of what greatness is promis’d thee. Lay it ...

(And betimes I will) to the weïrd sisters. [continues next]

Saw you the weïrd sisters? No, my lord.

[continues previous] (And betimes I will) to the weïrd sisters.

Crave leave to view these ladies, and entreat

An hour of revels with’em. Say, Lord Chamberlain,

The better arm you to the sudden time [continues next]

Than if you had at leisure known of this. [continues next]

Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his Majesty. [continues next]

[continues previous] Than if you had at leisure known of this.

[continues previous] Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his Majesty.

’Tis now strook twelf. Get thee to bed, Francisco.

Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.

... for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow. Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee. When I lose thee again, I care not; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and that thou’rt scarce worth. [continues next]

And yet run’st toward him still. Thou art not noble, [continues next]

Bless thee. Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated. [continues next]

I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they could; but I will not stir from this place, do what they can. I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid. [continues next]

Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see [continues next]

[continues previous] ... be a pretty wise fellow. Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee. When I lose thee again, I care not; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and that thou’rt scarce worth.

[continues previous] And yet run’st toward him still. Thou art not noble,

[continues previous] Bless thee. Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated.

[continues previous] Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see

That cannot see this palpable device? [continues next]

Yet who’s so bold but says he sees it not? [continues next]

[continues previous] That cannot see this palpable device?

I understand the business, I hear it. To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for th’ other senses. I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been, without boot! What a boot is here, with this exchange! Sure the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thing extempore. The Prince himself is about a ...

Believe me, there’s no such thing in me.

Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;