...learns that his challenger was not "born of woman," he responds with an attack on the "juggling fiends" that "palter with us in a double sense, / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). All these figures of equivocation are...

...late he realizes how the Instruments of Darkness have played upon his hopes and fears: "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (5.8.19-22). Perhaps it is worth examining these...

...tells me so; For it hath cowed my better part of man; And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope...' Listening to the dialogue, a thought suddenly strikes...

...the 'filthy hags' (IV, i, 131) for leading him astray: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. (V, x, 19-22) Whether or not Macbeth's recrimination...

...utters the perfect definition of evil, which is delusion: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. (v, viii, 19-22) Macbeth's last act is to resort to...

...Macbeth has heard. Just before Macbeth's death, he says, 'And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.' Shakespeare's plays are full of double sense. Are...

...Täuschung genau, statt nur seine Täuschung zu konstatieren: And be these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. [ . . . ] Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane And...

...from the womb. Macbeth's response is to denounce, or pray for, or command disbelief in, the "fiends / That palter with us in a double sense; / That keep the word of promise to our ear, / And break it to our hope" (III, viii, 19—22). The picture here is that to...

...something/or somebody. It is always possible therefore 1 'And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.' Act V, Sc. vm that some other person will be 'rightly...

...askance at any new gospel of freedom. Freedom to them has been like one of "those juggling fiends* That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." In this connection, some explanation of the former...