...MACBETH: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...the be-all and the end-all, here, But here upon this band and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here,...

...to a finite action: "If it were done, when 'tis done [if it were over once it is committed] .../... If the assassination / Could trammel up the consequence,...but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all . . . / We'ld jump the life to come" (1.7.1-5, 7). The subjunctive protasis (the first clause in a...

...MACBETH If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence and catch With his...this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all - here, 5 But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases, We still...

...Torches. Enter a Sewer, and diverse Sen>ants with dishes and service over the stage. Then enter Macbeth Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...surcease, success: that but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all. Here, But here, upon this bank and school of time, We'd jump the life to come....

...1.7.1-7:8 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might he the be-all and the end-all, here, But here upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life...

...rapidly leaps into his own: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and...bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. [I.7.I-7] "Jump" partly means "risk," but Shakespeare carries it over into our meaning also. After...

...MACBETH If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With...here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here — that we but teach Bloody...

...my head. It was a while before I realized they were saying Macbeth: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination...consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ..." 9 Quoted by Pfister in 'Die Villanelle in der englischen Moderne', p. 298. ° Christopher Ricks,...

...mesmerized: If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well, It were done quickly: If th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...surcease, success: that but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all here, But here. (I.viLI-6) o'erleaps itself and falls into vacancy - where...

...of Act I, scene vii. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if th 'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and...catch With his surcease success; that but this blow 5 Might be the be-all and the end-all - here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump...