Copy the following sentence into your notes--let's go over how to break up a line like this apart to find some meaning.

Macbeth:
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on th' other.

1. Look for any words that are shortened or not "modern" and see if you can determine what they are.
2. Look for any nouns that you recognize or try to figure them out using prior knowledge.
3. Look at the verbs and see if you know what they mean.
4. Put the sentence together to get some meaning. (I think he's saying something like....)