Macbeth; Act I, Scene v: First Folio

Macbeth      Act I, Scene v       Lady Macbeth

This speech is used in our interview with Paige Lindsey White (Santa Cruz Shakespeare)

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361  Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
362  What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature,
363  It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse,
364  To catch the neerest way. Thou would'st be great,
365  Art not without Ambition, but without
366  The illnesse should attend it. What thou would'st highly,
367  That would'st thou holily: would'st not play false,
368  And yet would'st wrongly winne.
369  Thould'st haue, great Glamys, that which cryes,
370  Thus thou must doe, if thou haue it;
371  And that which rather thou do'st feare to doe,
372  Then wishest should be vndone. High thee hither,
373  That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare,
374  And chastise with the valour of my Tongue
375  All that impeides thee from the Golden Round,
376  Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme
377  To haue thee crown'd withall.