Today’s Totally Random
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The spirits that know
All
mortal consequences have pronounced me thus,
‘Fear
not, Macbeth; no man that’s born of woman
Shall
e’er have power upon thee.’—Then fly, false thanes,
And
mingle with the English epicures:
The
mind I sway by and the heart I bear
Shall
never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
Macbeth
Macbeth Act V,
Scene iii, Line 8
One
with sensitive and discriminating tastes, especially in food or wine.
One
devoted to sensual pleasure.
Those are the two definitions of epicure
from MW online. The first is the modern definition and the latter is archaic. You
can sort of see how one begot the other, but it’s more the archaic version that
Macbeth is using here.
We’re near the end of the play and things are starting to turn bad for Macbeth, but he remains defiant. After all, the witches who know all have told him that no man can kill him. Right?
2 comments:
I feel like if someone said that to me "no man that's born of a woman"...I'd have questions. Why did you phrase it like that? Why does that feel like it has qualifiers? Why does that feel oddly specific? Or non-specific? He almost should have seen his fate coming.
Apparently you and Macbeth do not think alike.
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