...us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. — Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen. — This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If...

...to Banquo] Do you not hope your children shall be kings? (l,iii,u6-i8) And again: Macbeth. [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. [To the others] I thank you, gentlemen. [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot...

...the 'duettino' 'Due vaticini compiuti or sono' is based on three ideas from Shakespeare's 1.3: . . . Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme . . . . . . why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair . . . If chance...

...with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macbeth [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. I thank you, gentlemen. 130 This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, 36...

...modification of it are evident when Herod's lines are compared to Macbeth's first soliloquy: Macbeth. [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good....

...regards the news as confirmation of the witches' prophecy that he will become king; Macbeth, aside: "Two truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme" (I.iii. 127-29). 9.259-60 (191:17-18). a boldfaced Stratford . . . younger than herself - For "tumbles,"...

...doubt point to units such as: "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: / The greatest is behind" (1.3.116-17) and "Two truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme" (1.3.127-29). The first of these units appears to indicate that Macbeth is now ambitiously looking...

...ruminative asides where will and imagination struggle for supremacy with justice and reason, he adds: Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme . . . This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest...

...truly prophesied his becoming Thane of Cawdor (and may therefore be right about his becoming king): 'Two truths are told, | As happy prologues to the swelling act | Of the imperial theme' (Macbeth, \. 1ii. 127-9). 183.25-6 a boldfaced Stratford . . . herself: hom FH (368): 'l, too, Shakespeare...

...have come true; like a more plodding but also more tortured Richard III, Macbeth records his response: Two truths are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of...