Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 1

At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel

And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.

A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor.

Thanks for your pains.

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 success,
Commencing in a truth?

To me, Antigone, no word of friends
Has come, or glad or grievous, since we twain
Were reft of our two brethren in one day
By double fratricide

So stands it with us; now 'tis thine to show
If thou art worthy of thy blood or base.

And last, our hapless brethren in one day,
Both in a mutual destiny involved,
Self-slaughtered, both the slayer and the slain.

As like a Bacchic reveler on he came,
Outbreathing hate and flame,
And tottered.

But you by special summons I convened
As my most trusted councilors