Who wrote the following & what do they mean??

Question

Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here; and fill me from the crown to toe top full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose. Come to my woman's breast and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers wherever in your sightless substance you wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, and apll 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

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I shall make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night; Halloo your name to the reverberate hills and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out your name

Answer 1

"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here;"
-This Lady Macbeth deciding to put femininity aside so that she can do the horrible deeds necessary to acquire the crown.

"... and fill me from the crown to toe top full of direst cruelty!"
-Fill me from head to toe with iron grit/nerve/yaddayadda.

"Make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose."
-Stop me from even registering in my mind remorse and guilt. Because that will deter me from my ambition to take up the Throne

"Come to my woman's breast and take my milk for gall"
-Make my milk, which is suppose to be nurturing, into gall-stomach acid.

Basically it is all about the expected role of women. Her femininity, represented by breasts and milk, symbolizing nurture (mother to a child), prevents her from performing acts of violence and cruelty, which she says is a show of manliness.
This speech was made right before she was to kill someone. Hence the "Come, thick night, and apll 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" bit.
She is wanting to kill someone under the dark of night, and get away with it. She WAS pushing for Macbeth to kill people, but he whimps out. So she steps up and tells him to Be A MAN!

Answer 2

Shakespeare wrote both.

The first is Lady MacBeth, pretty much praying for her to not have feelings or guilt or regret, like a woman generally would, to help harden her so she can help proceed with the plan to help her husband obtain power.

The other is from Twelfthnight, where Viola, disguised as Cesario, has gone to deliver a message of lofe to Olivia from Orsino... instead of the real message, she brings this one, which is basically saying he'll wait there night and day at her gate and shout his love for her until she takes pity on him and loves him back.

Answer 3

Come Thick Night