* * * * * He shall live a man _forbid_.—_iii_, 21. * * * * * The weird sisters, hand in hand, _Posters_ of the sea and land.—_iii_, 32, 33. * * * * * Art not without ambition, but without _The illness should attend it_.—_v_, 20-21. * * * * * All that impedes thee from the _golden round_ That fate and _metaphysical aid_ doth seem To have thee crowned withal.—_v_, 30-31. * * * * * To _beguile_ the time Look like the time.—_vi_, 63. * * * * * —Those honors deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house: for those of old And the late dignities heap'd up to them We rest your _hermits_.—_vi_, 16-20. * * * * * This Duncan Hath borne his _faculties_ so meek.—_vii_, 16-17. * * * * * What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His _spongy_ officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great _quell_.—_vii_, 69-72. This list again may be made longer or shorter, with the same proviso as before, that it be not unnecessarily distended. Phrases like "craves composition" and "insane root," which I have put into the first section, may be grouped here if it seems better. I have not felt it needful to indicate the way in which the meaning of these obscure passages is to be brought out, for the method would be essentially the same as that taken to interest the class in the vocabulary of detached words. III Passages possibly obscure from the thought may for the most part be left for the later study of the play in detail. A few of them it is well to take up for the simple purpose of training the student in poetic language, and some need to be understood for the sake of the first general effect. In the first act of "Macbeth" the passages which it is actually necessary to examine are few, but the list may be made long or short at the pleasure of the teacher. The following may serve as examples: The merciless Macdonwald— Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him.—_ii_, 9-12. * * * * * As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells.—_ii_, 25-28. * * * * * But thither in a sieve I'll sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do and I'll do.—_iii_, 8-10.