The hearing of my wife with your approach.”
And then already, to himself:
Mac. “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else overleap;
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires,
The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.”
His famous soliloquy, “Out, out, brief candle,” is in itself a superb piece of earthly philosophy, but it becomes resplendently significant when regarded as the creed of infidelity which has brought him where he is; for he is an atheist, and therefore he is a murderer.
“Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,