...long. 65 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor...

...here °^ ' and the (repeating unsex me here ) Beast And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the...peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breast, And take my milk my gall you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...

...the witches themselves, she phrases this unsexing as the undoing of her own bodily maternal function: Come, you Spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose, nor...

...to take her femaleness away, raises the same sort of puzzlement about a woman's power of being bad: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...access and passage to remorse. That no compunctious visi tings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's...

...Lady Macbeth's invocation of the evil spirits in the first act of Macbeth may be taken as an example: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor...

...Macbeth. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, remorse—compassion That no compunctious visitings of nature compunctious...

...leader reprieved at Christ's crucifixion, following the custom at Passover. (Matthew 27). Cruelty 1 Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th 'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,...

...Macbeth, on her desire to escape supposed feminine traits, raises the issue of'femininity'. She implores 'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, stop up th'access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose nor...

...crown to the toes, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage of remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature...to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall! My main pleasure during those first weeks in this country was to get up on horseback and go riding....

...successfully, and without remorse, carry out her murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor...