Macbeth Act I Scene 3 Vocabulary

Georgia G.
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  1. dwindle
    become smaller or lose substance
    I will drain him dry as hay:
    Sleep shall neither night nor day
    Hang upon his pent-house lid;
    He shall live a man forbid:
    Weary se'nnights nine times nine
    Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
    Though his bark cannot be lost,
    Yet it shall be tempes
  2. vantage
    place or situation affording some benefit
    Whether he was combined
    With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
    With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
    He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;
    But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
    Have overthrown him.
  3. prologue
    an introductory section of a novel or other literary work
    MACBETH

    [Aside]


    Two truths are told,
    As happy prologues to the swelling act
    Of the imperial theme.
Created on Thu Mar 03 15:28:42 EST 2011 (updated Thu Mar 03 15:31:22 EST 2011)

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