...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...

...Whether this was true or a tactical distortion of a less definite hint Shakespeare leaves unsettled: Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. (I.vii.ji— 4) Secondly, Lady Macbeth makes the commission of the murder a test of her husband's love....

...a man: And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place 81 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. Adah could remember no more of the speech. She literally fell upon Macbeth and whispered in his ear....

...for gall, ye murdering ministers, That compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, &c. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis To love the babe that milks me, &c. and an accent of indignant astonishment, laying the principal emphasis on the word we — "we fail!"...

...breasts And take my milk for gall' (1.5.46—47). Berating Macbeth for his cowardice, she declares: 'I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me' (1.7.54—55), but this child and the brightly chattering son of Macduff are evoked only in order to...

...more64 than what you were, you would65 Be so much more the man. Nor time nor66 place Did then adhere,67 and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that - their fitness68 now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know69 55 How tender7" 'tis to love the babe...

...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...

...'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...

...his wife had already plotted the murder together. Upbraiding him for a momentary hesitation she says: Nor time, nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. (1, 7, 51-54) This means, freely paraphrased: "It is not easy to kill a king; our chief problem —...

...enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be 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, and that their fitness now Does unmake...