Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”
–Macbeth I.vii.48
Lady Macbeth wrangled with Macbeth during dinner
At cross purposes outside the banqueting hall
A privy conference as to who was the worse sinner
She thought him weak; he, that she was full of gall
She wanted one thing, and he another
He yelled that she was unreasonable and demanding
She screamed that he never liked her mother
And on and on, outside on the landing
The argument was about, as it came to pass,
What dress she should wear to the king’s funeral mass
Afterword:
Oh, and that’s all to the story, no more than that;
She had little to say about the cat