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Witches: "Double, double toil and trouble;/
?????." IVi

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Witches: "Double, double toil and trouble;/
?????." IVi

"Double, double toil and trouble;/
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." IV.i
The cauldron of disorder in this play; so much is 'double'.

Second witch: "By the pricking of my thumbs, / ?????" IV i

"By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes." IV.i
Even the witches recognise Macbeth's wickedness.

Apparition: "Laugh to scorn / the pow'r of man; / ????." IV i

"Laugh to scorn / the pow'r of man; / For none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth." IV.i
The false security provided to Macbeth; he does not put this together with the warning about Macduff.

Macbeth: "Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? / But yet I'll make ?????."

"Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? / But yet I'll make assurance double sure." IV.i
Another doubleness: not afraid, yet afraid.

Macbeth: "Infected be the air whereon they ride, / ?????." IV i

"Infected be the air whereon they ride, / And damn'd all those that trust them!." IV.i
He cannot see the irony; he can no longer see himself.

Macbeth: "From this moment ?????." IV i

"From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand." IV.i
After failing to kill Macduff, he determines to act as soon as he thinks.

Macbeth: "And even now, / To crown my thoughts with acts, ?????." IV i

"And even now, / To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done." IV i
As though something can be thoughtanddone. But human beings have 'the pauser, reason'.

Macbeth: "No boasting like a fool; / ????." IV i

"No boasting like a fool; / This deed I'll do before this purpose cool." IV.i
His determination to do before the impulse 'cools'.

Ross: "Cruel are the times, when we are traitors / ????." IV ii

"Cruel are the times, when we are traitors / And do not know ourselves." IV.ii
A world turned upside down, where nothing is certain, even our own sense of our self.

Lady Macduff: "I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good ????."

"I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly." IV.ii
Goodness is folly; fair is foul. A natural order upended.

Malcolm: "A good and virtuous nature ????." IV iii

"A good and virtuous nature may recoil / In an imperial charge." IV.iii
Power corrupts. Good nature can be twisted by power.

Macduff: "Boundless intemperance / blank." IV iii

"Boundless intemperance / In nature is a tyranny." IV.iii
The breaking of the natural order: nature requires bounds.

Malcolm (re Edward): "Sundry blessings hang about his throne / blank." IV iii

"Sundry blessings hang about his throne / That speak him full of grace." IV.iii
A mirror image of Macbeth: this is what a King should be.

Ross: "Alas, poor country! ... It cannot blank but our grave." IV iii

"Alas, poor country! ... It cannot be called our mother but our grave." IV.iii
Upending of order: no longer a motherland but a grave.

Malcolm: "Let's make us blank, / To cure this deadly grief." IV iii

"Let's make us medicines of our great revenge, / To cure this deadly grief." IV.iii
Malcolm as healer, a 'medicine' for the sick country.