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128 Notes ACT II Scene I. 2. Clock. Anachronism. 5. That too. Meaning a dagger. 19. Which. Antecedent? 44. Either my eyes are open and my other senses are shut, or my other senses are keen and my eyes deceive me. 49. Observe Macbeth's figurative language : it has seemed customary with him when thinking on the murder. 55. Tarquin: i. e., the last of the first seven kings of Rome. 61. Gives. Subject? 63-4. Account for the rhyming couplet here. Scene II. The murder scene gains in the setting, i. e., the owl shrieks out the "sternest good-night" and the guards are drugged. One feels the helplessness of the unsuspecting Duncan in the hands of the skillful Lady Macbeth. 16. Note the composure of Lady Macbeth. She is aware of sounds, and is cool in her discriminations, i. e., owls, crick- ets, etc. 17. Did not you speak descended forms one verse. Scan it. 22-25. "A large court surrounded all or in part by an open gallery, chambers opening into that gallery, the gallery ascended into by stairs, open likewise with the .addition of a college-like gateway, into which opens a porter's lodge, ap- pears to have been the poet's idea of the place of this great action." 35-43. Macbeth's use of figurative language is noticeable here, while before he committed the crime, his speech was brief and direct. 37. Ravell'd. Tangled. Sleave is a skein of silk. 56. /'// gild, etc. : i. e., smear with. 62. Multitudinous seas incarnadine. Account for the beauty of this verse.
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