...Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, Yet I will try the last. p. 87. Condition implied. Sc. 5. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To...at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in 'tp 82. First Clause wanting. Sc. 1. Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood...

...Macbeth. I have almost forgot the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd 10 To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair Would...supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. Re-enter SEYTON. Wherefore was that cry ? Seyton. The...

...slaughter of a hunting-match. FROM MACBETH. 107 Seyton. It is the cry of women, my good lord. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time...thoughts, Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry? Sfy. The Queen, my lord, is dead. Macb. She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time...

...Macbeth. I have almost forgot the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd 10 To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair Would...supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. Re-enter SEYTON. Wherefore was that cry ? * Seyton. The...

...lord. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The tune has been, my senses would have quail'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would...was that cry ? Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead." To the last the shadow of madness is most skilfully indicated as hovering around Macbeth, without the...

...decision. This applies to the following remarks by Macbeth in one of his numerous soliloquies, for example: 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. (V,v, 9-15) This speech scarcely refers to any specific...

...ineluctable sadness, and a full understanding of his state. Macbeth: I have almost forgot the taste of fear. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To...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. (Enter Seyton) Wherefore...

...wording; in this sense they are truly doubles which develop disconcerting divergence: 'The time has been, 'The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To...life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors.' (V.5.10) Honigmann (1976, 133) writes 'The deed [the murder of Duncan] is done in horror... "as if...

...Hearing the distressful cry of women, he speculates on its source, but does not otherwise respond. I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time...As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors. (5.5.9-13) Notice "as life were in't." Hair that stands on end is occasionally mentioned elsewhere...

...expanse of time: Macbeth: ... What is that noise? Seyton: It is the ciy of women, my good Lord. Macbeth: 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. Wherefore was that cry? Seyton: The Queen, my Lord, is...