MR. MACREADY’S MACBETH
Macready played Macbeth for the first time on June 9, 1820. Cf. this with the notice of Kean’s Macbeth (vol. VIII. p. 204).
[315]. ‘Air-drawn dagger,’ etc. Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Thick-coming fancies.’ Ibid. Act V. Sc. 3. ‘Docked and curtailed.’ Cf. ‘We know that they [bishops] hate to be dockt and clipt.’ Milton, Reformation in England, I. ‘Twa lang Scotch miles.’ Cf. ‘We think na on the lang Scots miles.’ Tam O’Shanter, 7. ‘Oh Hell-kite, all?’ Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 3. David Rizzio. See vol. VIII. p. 459.
‘——Fusbos, give place,
You know you haven’t got a singing face.’
‘Let those love now, who never lov’d before;
Let those who always lov’d, now love the more.’
Parnell, Catullus, The Vigil of Venus.