Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE IX.
Changes to an Apartment in Macbeth's Castle.
Hautboys, Torches. Enter divers servants with dishes and service over the stage. Then Macbeth.
Macb.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if th' assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With its surcease, success; that but this blow
9 note
Might be the Be-all and the End-all—Here.
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1 note
But here, upon this Bank and Shelve of time,
We'd jump the life to come.—But, in these cases,
&wlquo;We still have judgment here, that we but teach
&wlquo;Bloody instructions; which, being taught, return
&wlquo;To plague th' inventor. Even-handed justice
&wlquo;Returns th' Ingredients of our poison'd chalice
&wlquo;To our own lips. He's here in double trust:
&wlquo;First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
&wlquo;Strong both against the deed: Then, as his Host,
&wlquo;Who should against his murth'rer shut the door,
&wlquo;Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
&wlquo;2 noteHath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
&wlquo;So clear in his great office, that his virtues
&wlquo;Will plead, like angels, trumpet-tongu'd against
&wlquo;The deep damnation of his taking off;
&wlquo;And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,
&wlquo;Striding the blast, 3 note
or heav'n's cherubin hors'd
&wlquo;Upon the sightless coursers of the air,
&wlquo;Shall blow the horrid deed in ev'ry eye;
&wlquo;That tears shall drown the wind—I have no spur&wrquo;
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting Ambition, which o'er-leaps itself,
And falls on th' other—
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Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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