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- When Macbeth says, "The wine of life is drawn," he means that King Duncan's blood, metaphorically represented by the wine, has been poured out of (or has spilled from) his body.
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The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. MACBETH If I had died an hour before this happened I would have lived a blessed life.
"The wine of life is drawn," meaning Duncan is dead, and there's nothing left to live for except "the mere lees" of life. "Lees" is the sediment that is left at the bottom of an empty...
Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood, And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature. For ruin’s wasteful entrance; there, the murderers, Steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers. Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart.
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant, There 's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys; renown and grace is dead. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees. Is left this vault to brag of.
Look to the lady; [Lady Macbeth is carried out] And when we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure, let us meet. And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us. In the great hand of God I stand; and thence, Against the undivulged pretense, I fight.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees: 100 : Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN. DONALBAIN : What is amiss? MACBETH : You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood : Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. MACDUFF : Your royal father 's murder'd. MALCOLM : O, by whom? LENNOX
MACBETH. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, There 's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN. DONALBAIN.
