{"id":5174,"date":"2016-07-20T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5174"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:27:44","slug":"macbeth-act-i-scene-vii-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5174","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth: Act I, Scene vii; First Folio"},"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 modern\u00a0version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. If it were done, when ’tis done, then ‘twer well,<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. <\/a>It were done quickly: If th’A<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span>a<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span>ination<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. <\/a>Could trammell vp the Con<\/span>s<\/span>equence, and catch<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. <\/a>With his <\/span>s<\/span>urcea<\/span>s<\/span>e, Succe<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span>e: that but this blow<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. <\/a>Might be the be all, and the end all. Heere,<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. But heere, vpon this Banke and Schoole of time,<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. <\/a>Wee’ld iumpe the life to come. But in the<\/span>s<\/span>e Ca<\/span>s<\/span>es,<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. <\/a>We <\/span>s<\/span>till haue iudgement heere, that we but teach<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. <\/a>Bloody In<\/span>s<\/span>tructions, which being taught, returne<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. <\/a>To plague th’Inuenter, This euen-handed Iu<\/span>s<\/span>tice<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Commends th’Ingredience of our poy<\/span>s<\/span>on’d Challice<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. <\/a>To our owne lips. Hee’s heere in double tru<\/span>s<\/span>t;<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. <\/a>Fir<\/span>s<\/span>t, as I am his Kin<\/span>s<\/span>man, and his Subiect,<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. <\/a>Strong both again<\/span>s<\/span>t the Deed: Then, as his Ho<\/span>s<\/span>t,<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. <\/a>Who <\/span>s<\/span>hould again<\/span>s<\/span>t his Murtherer <\/span>s<\/span>hut the doore,<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Not beare the knife my <\/span>s<\/span>elfe. Be<\/span>s<\/span>ides, this <\/span>Duncane<\/i><\/li>\n
  17. <\/a>Hath borne his Faculties <\/span>s<\/span>o meeke; hath bin<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. <\/a>So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. <\/a>Will pleade like Angels, Trumpet-tongu’d again<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. <\/a>The deepe damnation of his taking off:<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. And Pitty, like a naked New-borne-Babe,<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. <\/a>Striding the bla<\/span>s<\/span>t, or Heauens Cherubin, hors’d<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. <\/a>Vpon the <\/span>s<\/span>ightle<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span>e Curriors of the Ayre,<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. <\/a>Shall blow the horrid deed in euery eye,<\/li>\n
  25. <\/a>That teares s<\/span>hall drowne the winde. I haue no Spurre<\/li>\n
  26. To pricke the <\/span>s<\/span>ides of my intent, but onely<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. <\/a>Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it <\/span>s<\/span>elfe,<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. <\/a>And falles on th’other.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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