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gown dressing gown





6closet chest or cabinet





10do...watching act as if awake





16meet fitting





17-18having...speech (the gentlewoman's report would amount to charging the king with murder, which would be treasonable)





19guise custom





20close concealed





42Thane of Fife Macduff





45starting flinching





46Go to, go to come, come





53sorely charged heavily burdened





55dignity high rank (i.e., as queen)





58practice professional skill





75annoyance harm, trouble





77mated defeated (cf. checkmate)





V.2 Open country near Dunsinane

s.d.Drum and Colors drummers and standard-bearers





3Revenges burn desire for revenge burns





4bleeding shedding of blood





5Excite incite; mortified dead





8file list





10unrough beardless





11Protest assert





15distempered diseased





16rule authority





18minutely every minute; revolts rebellions; faith breach broken faith





19in command under orders





23pestered tormented





27med'cine physician (i.e., Malcolm); weal state





30dew water





V.3 Within Macbeth's castle at Dunsinane





3taint grow weak





5mortal consequences human eventualities





8English epicures pleasure-loving English





9I sway by (1) that rules me, (2) that I rule by





11cream-faced pale (with fear); loon scoundrel





12goose foolish





16over-red paint red (i.e., with ruddy courage)





17patch fool





22push attack





23disseat unseat





25sere dry, withered





37horses horsemen; skirr scour





44Raze out erase





45oblivious causing forgetfulness





49physic medicine





52dispatch hurry

52-53cast...water analyze the urine (as a way of diagnosing illness)





60it i.e., the remaining armor





61bane destruction





V.4 Before Birnam Wood





2chambers private rooms (i.e., our homes);nothing not at all





5shadow conceal





6discovery (Macbeth's) reconnaissance





10setting down before laying siege to





11where...given as the opportunity presents itself





12more...revolt high and low (i.e., nobility and commoners) have rebelled against him





14just censures impartial judgment





15Attend...event await the actual result





20certain...arbitrate blows must decide the final outcome





21war army





V.5 Inside Macbeth's castle





4ague fever





5forced reinforced





6dareful defiant





11fell head





12dismal treatise frightening story





14Direness horror





15start frighten





18a time i.e., an appropriate time





31say insist





40cling shrivel; sooth truth





42pull in curb, check





43doubt suspect; equivocation double-talk





47avouches affirms





50estate order





52harness armor





V.6 Fields outside Dunsinane Castle





4battle battalion





6order battle plan





7power forces





V.7 The same





2course attack (like a bear tied to a stake and baited by dogs)





17kerns mercenary foot soldiers





18staves lances





20undeeded having done nothing





21note importance





22bruited indicated, noised





24gently rendered surrendered calmly (or nobly)





27itself professes declares itself





29strike beside us (1) fight on our side, (2) strike to one side of us





V.8 2Whiles...lives as long as I see living creatures





V.8 2Whiles...lives as long as I see living creatures





5charged burdened





8give thee out describe you





9intrenchant incapable of being cut





10impress mark





13charm magic





14angel guardian spirit; still always





18cowed made cowardly; better...man most of what makes me a man





19juggling deceiving, quibbling





20palter with us equivocate to us, trick us





23yield thee coward surrender as, or concede that you are, a coward





25monsters freaks





26Painted...pole depicted on a signboard





36go off perish; these i.e., these here assembled





42unshrinking station place from which he did not retreat





46Had...before were his wounds on the front of his body (i.e., was he running away)





50knolled tolled





52score reckoning





56compassed surrounded; kingdom's pearl what is most valuable in the kingdom (i.e., the assembled nobility)





61reckon settle accounts





62make...with repay our debts to





65planted...time done at the beginning of the new era





68ministers agents





70self and violent her own violent





73perform in measure, time duly perform at the appropriate time







William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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