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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 1
1390
    Infirm of purpose!
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 2
1391
    ’T is the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 3
1392
    Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 4
1393
    The labour we delight in physics pain.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 5
1394
    Dire combustion and confused events
New hatch’d to the woful time.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 6
1395
    Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee!
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 7
1396
    Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ the building!
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 8
1397
    The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 9
1398
    Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment?
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 10
1399
    There ’s daggers in men’s smiles.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 11
1400
    A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4. 12
1401
    Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life’s means!
          Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4.
1402
    I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1.
 
Note 1.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 2.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 3.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 4.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 5.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 6.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 7.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 8.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 9.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 10.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 11.
Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in Staunton. [back]
Note 12.
Act ii. sc. 2 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 3 in Staunton. [back]