"Macbeth" Yields More

        Two more lines from Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7, strummed on my memory as I looked up yesterday's passages.  Lady Macbeth, in bolstering Macbeth's will power, says,

                    Screw your courage to the sticking place,/And we'll not fail.

Since it is the killing of Duncan they are contemplating, Macbeth ends the scene with this rhymed couplet to his wife:

                   Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
                   False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

       And only "a page or so later" in Act 2, Scene 1, Macbeth,  soliloquizing about the imagined bloodiness ahead, says,

                                                         Whiles I threat, he lives:
                  Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

       Shakespeare captures by vivid language psychological truths.