{"id":5172,"date":"2016-07-20T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5172"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:28:24","slug":"macbeth-act-i-scene-vii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5172","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth: Act I, Scene vii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macbeth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 7. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Macbeth<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Maria-Christina Oliveras and Nance Williamson<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(This text is also featured in our interview with Ty Jones<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to open\u00a0a First Folio Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0It were done quickly: if the assassination<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Could trammel up the consequence, and catch<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0With his surcease success; that but this blow<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Might be the be-all and the end-all here,<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0We still have judgment here; that we but teach<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0To our own lips. He’s here in double trust;<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0Who should against his murderer shut the door,<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0So clear in his great office, that his virtues<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0The deep damnation of his taking-off;<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0And pity, like a naked new-born babe,<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0Upon the sightless couriers of the air,<\/li>\n
  24. \u00a0Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,<\/li>\n
  25. \u00a0That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur<\/li>\n
  26. \u00a0To prick the sides of my intent, but only<\/li>\n
  27. \u00a0Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself<\/li>\n
  28. \u00a0And falls on the other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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