The Stratford gallery; . r of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crownd withal. ****** The raven himself is hoarseThat croaks the fatal entrance of DuncanUnder my battlements. Come, come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-fullOf direst cruelty ! make thick my blood !Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 16 LADY MACBETH. That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my womans breasts,And
The Stratford gallery; . r of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crownd withal. ****** The raven himself is hoarseThat croaks the fatal entrance of DuncanUnder my battlements. Come, come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-fullOf direst cruelty ! make thick my blood !Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 16 LADY MACBETH. That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my womans breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdriug ministers,Wherever in your sightless substancesYou wait on natures mischief! Come, thick Night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell!That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry, Sold, hold ! For the somnambulic scene, that master-piece of physiologicaleffect, which would suffer by mutilation, we refer our readers tothe JULIET. Juliet was the only daughter, and heiress, of the Capnlets, one*of the proudest families of Verona, conspicuous for the deadlyenmity existing between them and the equally influential Mon-tagues. When Juliet had arrived at marriageable age, her fathergave a grand masque at his palace, to which all the beauty andnobility of Verona were bid—among whom was Kosaline, niece toold Capulet, a fair but disdainful beauty, beloved by young RomeoMontague. To cure him of a hopeless passion, his friend, Ben-volio, persuaded him to go to the entertainment, strictly disguised,and there compare his fair Rosaline with the excelling beautieswho would be present. Accordingly, Romeo and Benvolio, masked with studious pre-caution, for discovery would have been perilous, took part in thegay revel; and the young Montague no sooner beheld the beautifulJuliet than he forgot his Rosaline, and became passionately en-amored of the fair Capulet. It was in his recklessly enthusias
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