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Grammar

Passage from Macbeth

what does shakes to my single state of man that function is smothered in sumise ,mean?
  

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I have looked up "sumise" in the dictionary but it doesn't come up. Difficult sentence. Some of Shakespeare's sentences are beautiful but difficult to work out what they mean.

  • I have looked up "sumise" in the dictionary but it doesn't come up.
  • Difficult sentence.
  • Some of Shakespeare's sentences are beautiful but difficult to work out what they mean.
  • I think it means "submissive".
  • Does anybody else have a clue?
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I have looked up "sumise" in the dictionary but it doesn't come up. Difficult sentence. Some of Shakespeare's sentences are beautiful but difficult to work out what they mean. I think it means "submissive". Does anybody else have a clue?
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What act/scene is it in?
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I would say it has sth to do with protection and control, too.
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I think 'sumise' is a typo (typographic error, mistake).
I think it should be surmise; guess, supposition.

So, I think he is saying that his mind is clouded with uncertainty and supposition. BUT, I am only surmising!
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The Witches meet Macbeth in the forest and tell him three prophecies.
This oracular information sets him off into a heavy mind spin.

The line you quoted is from the soliloquy that follows
in which Macbeth is contemplating murder and death.

In the 16th century, time of Shakespeare, the English language did not have a consensus writing system
and so there are many
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Surmise = action is imprisoned by imagination.

The whole soliloquy is act 1, scene 3 lines 126 -141 I think.
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Surmise = action is imprisoned by imagination.

The whole soliloquy is act 1, scene 3 lines 126 -141 I think.
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Surmise = action is imprisoned by imagination.

The whole soliloquy is act 1, scene 3 lines 126 -141 I think.

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