Mr. Burbage monologue — Diminutive dramas

Before we do this scene there’s a point I wish to settle. In Scene V., when Seyton tells me the Queen’s dead, I say: “She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word”; and then the messenger enters. I should like a soliloquy here, about twenty or thirty lines, if possible in rhyme, in any case ending with a tag. I should like it to be about Lady Macbeth. Macbeth might have something touching to say about their happy domestic life, and the early days of their marriage. He might refer to their courtship. I must have something to make Macbeth sympathetic, otherwise the public won’t stand it. He might say his better-half had left him, and then he might refer to her beauty. The speech might begin: