...Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow'd my better part of man ! And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then yield thee,...

...palt'ring Becomes not Rome ;] That is, this trick of dissimulation ; this shuffling : " And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, " That palter with us in a double sense." Macbeth. JOHNSON, Becomes not Rome ;] I would read : Becomes not Romans ; Coriolanus being accented...

...to be a juggling of the Ethiopian priefts. Digby. i. To praiftife artifice or impofture.— Be thete juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double fenfe. Shak. Is't poffible the fpells of France u\ou\ajuggl< Men into fuch dränge mockeries ! Siiat....

...of those whose delight is to betray the unsuspecting; one of those malignant and misleading spirits, that " Palter with us in a double sense, " That keep the word of promise to our earj " And break it to our hope." She would not admit the idea; and listened in a...

...The two-faced oracle of DELPHOS in the sanctuary of God. It belongs to those deep dissimulations,, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.* The agreement thus apparently effected between belief...

...departs as much from truth and sincerity as the most direct liar. 44 And be those juggling friends no more believ'd, " That palter with us in a double sense; *» That keep the word of promise to the ear, •• And break ii to our hope." ^ESOP AT PLAY. AN Athenian one day found JEsop...

...enchaunted arms that none can pierce." STEEVENS. For it hath cow'd my better part of man : And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense " ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. MACD. Then yield thee,...

...PALT'RING Becomes not ROME ;] That is, this trick of dissimulation ; this shuffling : " And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, " That palter with us in a double sense." Macbeth. JOHNSON. " Becomes not Rome ; " I would read : " Becomes not Romans ; " Coriolanus being accented...

...refers in his powerful language : " I doubt the' equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth." And, " That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word ot" promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." Let a few of these conspirators be banded together...

...Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow'd my better part of man ! And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; 4 s As easy may'st thou the intrenchant air — ] That is, air which cannot be cut. That keep the...