MACBETH
ACT. PROLOGUE.
Two truths are told
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.
I, 3, 128.
PLAYER. STAGE.
A poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.
V, 5, 24.
SHOW.
Then yield thee coward
And live to be the show and gaze o’ the time.
We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole and underwrit:
“Here may you see the tyrant.”
V, 7, 53.