Lady Macbeth. A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
Macbeth. There’s one did laugh in ’s sleep,
And one cried, “Murder!” that they did wake each other;
I stood and heard them: but they did say their prayers,
And address’d them again to sleep.
—Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2.
Stern, severe, harsh feelings have a tendency to contract the throat; hence, we get a quality that is called the Guttural. It is heard only where the passion grips the throat.
Mend, and change home,
Or by the fires of heaven, I’ll leave the foe,