...single state of man, that function Is emother'd in surmise : and nothing is, But what is not. Ban. the night, is lack • Remembering. > Inexpressible. 205 of the sun : That he, that hath learn«] no stir. Ban. New honors come upon him Like our strange garments, cleave ' not to their mould. But with...

...is irresolute as to the means ; conscience distinctly warns him, and he lulls it imperfectly : — If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir. Lost in the prospective of his guilt, he turns round alarmed lest others may suspect what is...

...of nature?" And then comes the refuge of every man of unfirm mind upon whom temptation is laid :— "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir." If he had opposed the chance, he would have been safe ; but his will was prostrate before the...

...imperial theme . . . . . . why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair . . . If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. Without my stir. But instead of treating them as the stages of a temptation, as in the play, Verdi's music suggests...

...smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. Banquo Look how our partner's rapt. Macbeth [.Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Banquo New honours come upon him, 145 Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But...

...there is no need for action; he is sure to become King. This actually occurs to him a few lines later ("If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me, / Without my stir"), and he seems to throw the idea aside till Duncan appoints Malcolm his next heir. Then it comes...

...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. 140 Banquo. Look how our partner's rapt. Macbeth. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir. Banquo. New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with...

...to him out of the working of things, for which he is not responsible, without an effort of his own. If chance will have me king. Why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. That was the first stage of the growing crime which finally became murder. Sailing With the Current...

...confused state of Adams's mind in the months prior to the election of 1824. He muses that Macbeth's remark "If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir" reveals "a remnant of virtue yet struggling in the breast of that victim of unhallowed ambition...

...point he is still treating time as something that cannot be avoided. One must await the outcome — "If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me, / Without my stir" (143). But even at this juncture, as he has been hailed as Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter,...