Macbeth

• gory

  never shake / thy gory locks at me
• 2nd apparition

  fear not, Macbeth. No man that’s born of woman / Shall e‘er have power upon thee
• night

  come thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell
• flower

  look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t
• spirits

  come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• untimely

  Macbeth was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d
• guests

  be bright and jovial among your guests tonight
• raven

  the raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
• ocean

  will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / clean from my hand
• falcon


  a falcon, towering in her pride of place / was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
• Macbeth describing Duncan

  hath borne his faculties so meek
• perfumes

  all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
• Macbeth after Duncan’s murder

  had I but died an hour before this chance / I had lived a blessed time
• white

  my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white
• man

  when you durst do it then you were a man
• to be

  to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus
• Macbeth about lady Macbeth’s death

  she would have died hereafter
• stars

  stars hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires
• macduff horror

  O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive or name thee
• blood

  blood will have blood
• scorpions

  O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
• milk of human

  Yet I do fear thy nature. / It is too full o’the milk of human kindness
• milk

  take my milk for gall
• tomorrow

  tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace
• scorched

  we have scorched the snake, not killed it
• Macduff after killing Macbeth

  behold where stands / the usurper’s cursed head
• tyrant

  O nation miserable / With an untitled tyrant
• Macbeth deciding to kill Macduff’s family

  Give to th’ edge o’th sword / His wife, his babes
• lady Macbeth cruelty

  and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty
• banquo soliloquy

  thou has it now King, Cawdor, Glamis, all
• fountain

  the spring, the head, the fountain of your blood/ is stopped
• mettle 


  thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males
• macduff’s son dying

  he has killed me, mother
• lady Macbeth infirm

  infirm of purpose!
• bell


  the bell invites me./ Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven or to hell
• masculine

  come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• Duncan praising Macbeth

  O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman
• Duncan’s skin

  his silver skin laced with his golden blood
• illness


  Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it
• pathetic fallacy

  some say the earth was feverous and did shake