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Scene VII] Macbeth 35 Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macbeth. Prithee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And, to be more than what you were, you would so Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. Macbeth. If we should fail? Lady Macbeth. We fail. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, 60 And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep — Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him — his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince, That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbec only : when in swinish sleep