Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journeySoundly invite him, his two chamberlainsWill I with wine and wassail so convinceThat memory, the warder of the brain,Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reasonA limbeck only; when in swinish sleepTheir drenched natures lie, as in a death,What cannot you and I perform uponThe unguarded Duncan? what not put uponHis spongy officers, who shall bear the guiltOf our great quell?
Answer
A
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we’ll not fail.”
B
“When Duncan is asleep, / Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey / Soundly invite him”
C
“What cannot you and I perform upon / The unguarded Duncan?”
D
“what not put upon / His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt / Of our great quell?”