StoryTitle("caps", "Macbeth I.vii") ?>
by William Shakespeare
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It were done quickly: if the assassination", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Could trammel up the consequence, and catch", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With his surcease success; that but this blow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Might be the be-all and the end-all here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We still have judgment here; that we but teach", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To our own lips. He's here in double trust;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who should against his murderer shut the door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So clear in his great office, that his virtues", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The deep damnation of his taking-off;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And pity, like a naked new-born babe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon the sightless couriers of the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To prick the sides of my intent, but only", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And falls on the other.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enter LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How now! what news?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hath he ask'd for me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Know you not he has?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We will proceed no further in this business:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Golden opinions from all sorts of people,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not cast aside so soon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was the hope drunk", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wakes it now, to look so green and pale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At what it did so freely? From this time", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To be the same in thine own act and valour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And live a coward in thine own esteem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like the poor cat i' the adage?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Prithee, peace:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I dare do all that may become a man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who dares do more is none.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What beast was't, then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That made you break this enterprise to me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When you durst do it, then you were a man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, to be more than what you were, you would", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They have made themselves, and that their fitness now", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I would, while it was smiling in my face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have done to this.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If we should fail?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We fail!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But screw your courage to the sticking-place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will I with wine and wassail so convince", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That memory, the warder of the brain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their drenched natures lie as in a death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What cannot you and I perform upon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of our great quell?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bring forth men-children only;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For thy undaunted mettle should compose", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nothing but males. Will it not be received,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That they have done't?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "LADY MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who dares receive it other,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon his death?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "MACBETH", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I am settled, and bend up", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Away, and mock the time with fairest show:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "False face must hide what the false heart doth know.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>