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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