TALBOYS.
"The Thane of Fife had a Wife." Does not that imply that she was privy to that Murder?
NORTH.
No. Except that she takes upon herself all the murders that are the offspring, legitimate or illegitimate, of that First Murder. But we know that Macbeth, in a sudden fit of fury, ordered the Macduffs to be massacred when on leaving the Cave Lenox told him of the Thane's flight.
TALBOYS.
That is decisive.
NORTH.
A woman, she feels for a murdered woman. That is all—a touch of nature—from Shakspeare's profound and pitiful heart.
TALBOYS.
"The Queen, my lord, is dead." "She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word"—Often have I meditated on the meaning of these words—yet even now I do not fully feel or understand them.