We will proceed no further in this business.
He hath honored me of late, and I have bought32
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.
LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
37 And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
40 To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
44 Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"
45 Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
MACBETH Prithee peace.
I dare do all that may become a man;
47 Who dares do more is none.
LADY MACBETH What beast was't then
48 That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
50 And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
52 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
53 They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. 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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
59 Have done to this.
MACBETH If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH We fail?