...thoughts and deed: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' (Macbeth 1.5.49-53) The critic's reprobation of Shakespeare's incongruous choice of words does not...

...già si profila. Come, thick night, And pali thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, Tocry «hold, hold!». (I, v, 49-53). Scendi, o fitta notte, e avviluppati nel più tetro fumo, d'inferno,...