...tries to strengthen her husband s weakening resolve to kill the king by saying (Act 1, Scene VI I): I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, 1 lave plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dash'd the brains out, Had 1 so sworn as you have...

...more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place Did then adhere,22 and yet you would make both; They have made themselves,...milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, 17 Macbeth makes his refusal a practical matter; he does not want to lose the high reputation he has...

...'s children, the bloody-child apparition — and in its language, Lady Macbeth's terrible hyperbole: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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 Have done...

...declares that she would sacrifice her own child rather than fail to pursue their murderous intentions: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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 Have done...

...you durst do it when you were a man And to be more than what you were you would Be so much more than the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere and yet...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 have done...

...sticking-place and show her that he is as determined to carry out their plan as she is. In her own words, I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (1.7.54-59) Not surprising that three acts, much gall and many thick nights later, the doctor declares...

...finally counters his stiff resistance with a particularly shocking image of the destruction of a baby: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this (1.7.54-59).2' This image connects reproductive and destructive capacities and a slain baby with the...

...Macbeth works on Macbeth's image of himself as man and tries to abash him with her own resolution: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (1.7.54-59) Lady Macbeth's understanding of masculinity is terribly conventional; for her, a man is...

...in Lady Macbeth 's startling image designed to strengthen her husband's resolve to kill King Duncan: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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 have done...

...order, patrilineal rule, and household economy. Lady Macbeth declares near the beginning of the play, "I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love...me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gum, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done...