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1  The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wrack'd as homeward he did come.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
3  The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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4  So well thy words become thee as thy wounds: They smack of honour both.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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5  Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, Melted as breath into the wind.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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6  Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Macbeth as Queen; Lennox, Ross, Lords, and Attendants.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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7  If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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8  O gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell.'
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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9  I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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10  There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My genius is rebuk'd; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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11  As thick as tale Came post with post; and everyone did bear Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence, And pour'd them down before him.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
12  As far, my lord, as will fill up the time 'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better, I must become a borrower of the night, For a dark hour or twain.'
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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13  Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done't: Their hands and faces were all badg'd with blood; So were their daggers, which, unwip'd, we found Upon their pillows.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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14  Ha, good father, Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man's act, Threatens his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.'
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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15  He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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16  Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect; Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing air: But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
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17  I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.'
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
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