...falcons' eyelids together as part of their preparation as hunting birds): Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...me pale! Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their...

...affected by the delicate affection which his kindness to her old servant expressed for herself. CHAPTER L Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky...droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. MACBETH. MEANWHILE Count de Villefort and Lady Blanche had passed a pleasant fortnight...

...this bond that Macbeth speaks immediately before the murder of Banquo : Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! (III.ii.48-52) 1 See PN Siegel, Shakespearean Tragedy and the Elizabethan Compromise, p. 145 ; MDH...

...Macbeth (act 3, scene 2, 4650) speaks of a bloody and invisible hand. .... Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Smith was also an admirer of Voltaire's Oedipe. This is the play in which Oedipus is twice threatened...

...in Macbeth; moving (as so often) from the concrete to the abstract: Come, seeling night, Scarf up to the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!2 Once blinded, the bird is starved, watched by day and night, denied sleep; until she finally...

...of birds and darkness. A starting point might be Macbeth's meditation before the murder of Banquo: Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky...droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse . . . [in ii 50-53] This, as usual, is indistinct, because it is not clear whether the...

...dreadful note LADY MACB What's to be done MACBETH Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck 48 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day And with thy bloody...droop and drowse Whiles Night's black agents to their preys do rouse Thou marvellest at my words but hold thee still Things bad begun make strong themselves...

...den Mord an seinem Gefährten Banquo gleich im Anschluß an diese Szene: Come, seeling Night,/ Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day,/ And, with thy bloody...great bond / Which keeps me pale ! Light thickens; [...]/ Good things of Day begin to droop and drowse,/ Whiles Night's black agents to their preys do...

...Macbeth asks his dark being to cover up the crimes he is about to commit: Come, seeing night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Thus we see an invisible hand that is no longer a gentle hand, but a bloody, forceful hand. But Rothschild...

...may originally have picked up the metaphor from Shakespeare, in Macbeth: Come, seeling night, / Scarf up th.e tender eye of pitiful day, /And with thy bloody...tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale. There is, however, no direct proof of a connection between Smith and Shakespeare. 34. Charles Darwin,...