Macbeth - Page 105

72that...profess your profession, witchcraft

75yeasty foaming

77bladed...lodged ripe wheat be flattened

79slope bend

81Nature's germens the essential seeds of nature

82sicken surfeit

85masters instruments, agents, experts (the spirits through whom they communicate with the occult world-a master is a skilled workman)

87nine farrow litter of nine; sweaten exuded

90office function

96harped hit the tune of

106take a bond of secure a guarantee from

110-11round...top crown

117impress conscript

118bodements prophecies

121lease of nature full life span

121-22pay...custom be obligated only to age and normal death

124issue offspring

133 s.d.glass mirror

138Start burst, start from your sockets

143twofold...scepters two orbs and three scepters (the British royal insignia)

145blood-boltered matted with blood

147-54 (a non-Shakespearean addition)

149sprites spirits

152antic round grotesque dance

166anticipat'st forestall

167flighty fleeting

169-70firstlings...my hand i.e., I shall act at the moment I feel the first impulse

175trace follow; line family line

IV.2 Macduff's castle at Fife

4traitors i.e., betray our interests

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