...you, gentlemen. — 130 This supernatural soliciting [Aside. Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 135 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use...

...ill, cannot be good: if iu, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thaue of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginingsMy thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical. Shakes so my single state of man that function...

...I thank you, gentlemen. [Afide] This supernatural soliciting 180 (Jannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unflx my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are...

...swelling net Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— 3 This supernatural soliciting Cannot he ill; cannot be good:—If ill, Why hath it given me...am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that 4 suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my 6seated heart knock at my ribs, Against...

...yielding to the evil in his heart : This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix tny hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less...

...thank you, gentlemen. MAKBETH. This prophetic soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why has it given me earnest of success commencing in a truth?...why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image makes my heart knock at my ribs? Scene 3. Duncan, Malcom, Macduff. DUNCAN. I wish the friends we miss...

...contemplation of the future - in such terms as This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? (1.3) and If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if th'assassination...

...disjoined from the heroic image he projects: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? (1.3.130-37) The rhetorical balance of opposites dramatizes Macbeth's moral uncertainty and reflects...

...is a terrifying possibility, and the effect of these imaginings on his whole being is unmistakable: why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? (1.3.133-6) This is a completely new tone in Shakespearian tragedy. Macbeth's description reminds us...

...Macbeth speaks aside a few lines later: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing...seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? (131-8) Macbeth's words amplify through horrid imaginings to murder, and he concludes that 'nothing...