Listen to many, speak to a few.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

And nature must obey necessity.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.