...that noise? SEYTON: It is the cry of women, my good lord. SEYTON rushes off to investigate. MACBETH: I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time...Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were ¡n't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once...

...emerges at last victorious and fearless: I have almost forgot the taste of fears: The time has heen, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek;...supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts. Cannot once start me. (vv 9) Again, 'Hang those that talk of fear!' (v. iii....

...contained in the dread-infected speech in which he recollects his capacity for ordinary human fear: I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time...supp'd full with horrors: Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. (5, 5, 9-15) Here, the past merges with the present in...

...power, Macbeth in the end achieves something oddly akin to the invulnerability he has ever craved: I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time...rouse and stir As life were in't. I have supp'd full of horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. (5.5.9-15) "I have...

...noise? Seyton It is the cry of women, my good lord. Macbeth I have almost forgot the taste of fears; 10 The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To...supp'd full with horrors; Direness familiar to my slaughterous thoughts 15 Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry? Seyton The queen, my lord, is...

...time can ever be won. Macbeth lives beyond a time when he is able to feel fear, or to feel at all. I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time...Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in 't. I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once...

...rendering through a periphrasis Hidden metaphors An example may be found in Marhesh, 5.5.9-15. MACBETH: I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time...Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life wcre in't. 1 hare supped full vn&i horrors: Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot...

...almost as a loss of innocence: I have almost forgot the taste of fears: The time has been, my sense would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; And my fell...treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. (Act...

...fear felt by the early Macbeth were the signs of his kinship with man and God, but by the fifth act : I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time...supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. (Vv9-15) With the loss of human fear,1 Macbeth must forfeit...

...taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As...to my slaught'rous thoughts. Cannot once start me. SHAKESPEARE. THIS rendezvous was no other than that mysterious building in which Edgar had sheltered...