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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1416
    But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1417
    Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1418
    Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1419
    The air-drawn dagger.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1420
    The time has been,
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1421
    I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1422
    Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1423
    A thing of custom,—’t is no other;
Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1424
    What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,—
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1425
    Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1426
    You have displac’d the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir’d disorder.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1427
    Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud,
Without our special wonder?
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1428
    Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
          Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.