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Lady Macbeth, Lines 14-29a
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Act 1,
Scene 5
Lines 14-29a

Lady Macbeth performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Macbeth. 

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.5 Performance: Lady Macbeth, Lines 14-29a

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature –
It is too full o'th milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis,
That which cries 'Thus thou must do' if thou have it,
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
And chastise, with the valor of my tongue,
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal.