...how " ? Mr. Collier calls it "a very acceptable alteration," when, in Lady Macbeth's invocation : " Come thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold! holdf"' this MS. corrector would read, "Nor heaven peep through the blanknest of the dark." To say...

...who had been raised by the poetry, was depressed greatly by its arithmetic. She recommenced — " ' That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor...cry hold ! hold ! — Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! ' Making the point on ' Great Glamis,' at Macbeth's entrance, not on ' hold,' which is done now-a-days,...

...following passages, we are convinced, never came in their present form from the pen of Shakespeare. Come thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark. To cry, Hold, hold !— Macb. i. 5. At no time could the image in the fourth line have been otherwise than low and ludicrous;...

...rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. Shaks. Maeheth. Come, thiek night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell...Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To ery, hold, hold! Shake. Maeheth. Thou sure and firm-set earth. Hear not my steps, whieh way they walk,...

...who had been raised by the poetry, was depressed greatly by its arithmetic. She recommenced, — " That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor...cry, Hold ! hold ! — Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! ' Making the point on " Great Glamis," at Macbeth's entrance, not on " Hold," which is done now-a-days,...

...between The effect, and it!" Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murthering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You..."Hold, hold!" Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported me beyond This...

...compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it ! Come, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless...Hold, hold ! Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by tne all-hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported me beyond This...

...passage to remorse ; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep pace between The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's breasts,...hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; 3ior heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold!— Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor...

...it ! Come to my woman's breasts, ACT I. SCENES VI. AND VII. And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...hold ! " — Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported me beyond This...

...the object of his wrath keeps peace." — CHARLES KNIGHT. And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" MACBETffS SOLILOQUY ON THE MURDER OF DUNCAN. Macbeth, IF it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere...