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15 <h3>SCENE I. A desert place.</h3>
17 <i>Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches</i>
20 <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
22 <A NAME=1.1.1>When shall we three meet again</A><br>
23 <A NAME=1.1.2>In thunder, lightning, or in rain?</A><br>
26 <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
28 <A NAME=1.1.3>When the hurlyburly's done,</A><br>
29 <A NAME=1.1.4>When the battle's lost and won.</A><br>
32 <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
34 <A NAME=1.1.5>That will be ere the set of sun.</A><br>
37 <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
39 <A NAME=1.1.6>Where the place?</A><br>
42 <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Witch</b></a>
44 <A NAME=1.1.7> Upon the heath.</A><br>
47 <A NAME=speech6><b>Third Witch</b></a>
49 <A NAME=1.1.8>There to meet with Macbeth.</A><br>
52 <A NAME=speech7><b>First Witch</b></a>
54 <A NAME=1.1.9>I come, Graymalkin!</A><br>
57 <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Witch</b></a>
59 <A NAME=1.1.10>Paddock calls.</A><br>
62 <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Witch</b></a>
64 <A NAME=1.1.11>Anon.</A><br>
67 <A NAME=speech10><b>ALL</b></a>
69 <A NAME=1.1.12>Fair is foul, and foul is fair:</A><br>
70 <A NAME=1.1.13>Hover through the fog and filthy air.</A><br>
73 <h3>SCENE II. A camp near Forres.</h3>
75 <i>Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant</i>
78 <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
80 <A NAME=1.2.1>What bloody man is that? He can report,</A><br>
81 <A NAME=1.2.2>As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt</A><br>
82 <A NAME=1.2.3>The newest state.</A><br>
85 <A NAME=speech2><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
87 <A NAME=1.2.4> This is the sergeant</A><br>
88 <A NAME=1.2.5>Who like a good and hardy soldier fought</A><br>
89 <A NAME=1.2.6>'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!</A><br>
90 <A NAME=1.2.7>Say to the king the knowledge of the broil</A><br>
91 <A NAME=1.2.8>As thou didst leave it.</A><br>
94 <A NAME=speech3><b>Sergeant</b></a>
96 <A NAME=1.2.9>Doubtful it stood;</A><br>
97 <A NAME=1.2.10>As two spent swimmers, that do cling together</A><br>
98 <A NAME=1.2.11>And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--</A><br>
99 <A NAME=1.2.12>Worthy to be a rebel, for to that</A><br>
100 <A NAME=1.2.13>The multiplying villanies of nature</A><br>
101 <A NAME=1.2.14>Do swarm upon him--from the western isles</A><br>
102 <A NAME=1.2.15>Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;</A><br>
103 <A NAME=1.2.16>And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,</A><br>
104 <A NAME=1.2.17>Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:</A><br>
105 <A NAME=1.2.18>For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--</A><br>
106 <A NAME=1.2.19>Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,</A><br>
107 <A NAME=1.2.20>Which smoked with bloody execution,</A><br>
108 <A NAME=1.2.21>Like valour's minion carved out his passage</A><br>
109 <A NAME=1.2.22>Till he faced the slave;</A><br>
110 <A NAME=1.2.23>Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,</A><br>
111 <A NAME=1.2.24>Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,</A><br>
112 <A NAME=1.2.25>And fix'd his head upon our battlements.</A><br>
115 <A NAME=speech4><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
117 <A NAME=1.2.26>O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!</A><br>
120 <A NAME=speech5><b>Sergeant</b></a>
122 <A NAME=1.2.27>As whence the sun 'gins his reflection</A><br>
123 <A NAME=1.2.28>Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,</A><br>
124 <A NAME=1.2.29>So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come</A><br>
125 <A NAME=1.2.30>Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:</A><br>
126 <A NAME=1.2.31>No sooner justice had with valour arm'd</A><br>
127 <A NAME=1.2.32>Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,</A><br>
128 <A NAME=1.2.33>But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,</A><br>
129 <A NAME=1.2.34>With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men</A><br>
130 <A NAME=1.2.35>Began a fresh assault.</A><br>
133 <A NAME=speech6><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
135 <A NAME=1.2.36>Dismay'd not this</A><br>
136 <A NAME=1.2.37>Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?</A><br>
139 <A NAME=speech7><b>Sergeant</b></a>
141 <A NAME=1.2.38>Yes;</A><br>
142 <A NAME=1.2.39>As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.</A><br>
143 <A NAME=1.2.40>If I say sooth, I must report they were</A><br>
144 <A NAME=1.2.41>As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they</A><br>
145 <A NAME=1.2.42>Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:</A><br>
146 <A NAME=1.2.43>Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,</A><br>
147 <A NAME=1.2.44>Or memorise another Golgotha,</A><br>
148 <A NAME=1.2.45>I cannot tell.</A><br>
149 <A NAME=1.2.46>But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.</A><br>
152 <A NAME=speech8><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
154 <A NAME=1.2.47>So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;</A><br>
155 <A NAME=1.2.48>They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.</A><br>
156 <p><i>Exit Sergeant, attended</i></p>
157 <A NAME=1.2.49>Who comes here?</A><br>
158 <p><i>Enter ROSS</i></p>
161 <A NAME=speech9><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
163 <A NAME=1.2.50> The worthy thane of Ross.</A><br>
166 <A NAME=speech10><b>LENNOX</b></a>
168 <A NAME=1.2.51>What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look</A><br>
169 <A NAME=1.2.52>That seems to speak things strange.</A><br>
172 <A NAME=speech11><b>ROSS</b></a>
174 <A NAME=1.2.53>God save the king!</A><br>
177 <A NAME=speech12><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
179 <A NAME=1.2.54>Whence camest thou, worthy thane?</A><br>
182 <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSS</b></a>
184 <A NAME=1.2.55>From Fife, great king;</A><br>
185 <A NAME=1.2.56>Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky</A><br>
186 <A NAME=1.2.57>And fan our people cold. Norway himself,</A><br>
187 <A NAME=1.2.58>With terrible numbers,</A><br>
188 <A NAME=1.2.59>Assisted by that most disloyal traitor</A><br>
189 <A NAME=1.2.60>The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;</A><br>
190 <A NAME=1.2.61>Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,</A><br>
191 <A NAME=1.2.62>Confronted him with self-comparisons,</A><br>
192 <A NAME=1.2.63>Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.</A><br>
193 <A NAME=1.2.64>Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,</A><br>
194 <A NAME=1.2.65>The victory fell on us.</A><br>
197 <A NAME=speech14><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
199 <A NAME=1.2.66>Great happiness!</A><br>
202 <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSS</b></a>
204 <A NAME=1.2.67>That now</A><br>
205 <A NAME=1.2.68>Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:</A><br>
206 <A NAME=1.2.69>Nor would we deign him burial of his men</A><br>
207 <A NAME=1.2.70>Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch</A><br>
208 <A NAME=1.2.71>Ten thousand dollars to our general use.</A><br>
211 <A NAME=speech16><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
213 <A NAME=1.2.72>No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive</A><br>
214 <A NAME=1.2.73>Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,</A><br>
215 <A NAME=1.2.74>And with his former title greet Macbeth.</A><br>
218 <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSS</b></a>
220 <A NAME=1.2.75>I'll see it done.</A><br>
223 <A NAME=speech18><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
225 <A NAME=1.2.76>What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.</A><br>
228 <h3>SCENE III. A heath near Forres.</h3>
230 <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches</i>
233 <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
235 <A NAME=1.3.1>Where hast thou been, sister?</A><br>
238 <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
240 <A NAME=1.3.2>Killing swine.</A><br>
243 <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
245 <A NAME=1.3.3>Sister, where thou?</A><br>
248 <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
250 <A NAME=1.3.4>A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,</A><br>
251 <A NAME=1.3.5>And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--</A><br>
252 <A NAME=1.3.6>'Give me,' quoth I:</A><br>
253 <A NAME=1.3.7>'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.</A><br>
254 <A NAME=1.3.8>Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:</A><br>
255 <A NAME=1.3.9>But in a sieve I'll thither sail,</A><br>
256 <A NAME=1.3.10>And, like a rat without a tail,</A><br>
257 <A NAME=1.3.11>I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.</A><br>
260 <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Witch</b></a>
262 <A NAME=1.3.12>I'll give thee a wind.</A><br>
265 <A NAME=speech6><b>First Witch</b></a>
267 <A NAME=1.3.13>Thou'rt kind.</A><br>
270 <A NAME=speech7><b>Third Witch</b></a>
272 <A NAME=1.3.14>And I another.</A><br>
275 <A NAME=speech8><b>First Witch</b></a>
277 <A NAME=1.3.15>I myself have all the other,</A><br>
278 <A NAME=1.3.16>And the very ports they blow,</A><br>
279 <A NAME=1.3.17>All the quarters that they know</A><br>
280 <A NAME=1.3.18>I' the shipman's card.</A><br>
281 <A NAME=1.3.19>I will drain him dry as hay:</A><br>
282 <A NAME=1.3.20>Sleep shall neither night nor day</A><br>
283 <A NAME=1.3.21>Hang upon his pent-house lid;</A><br>
284 <A NAME=1.3.22>He shall live a man forbid:</A><br>
285 <A NAME=1.3.23>Weary se'nnights nine times nine</A><br>
286 <A NAME=1.3.24>Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:</A><br>
287 <A NAME=1.3.25>Though his bark cannot be lost,</A><br>
288 <A NAME=1.3.26>Yet it shall be tempest-tost.</A><br>
289 <A NAME=1.3.27>Look what I have.</A><br>
292 <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Witch</b></a>
294 <A NAME=1.3.28>Show me, show me.</A><br>
297 <A NAME=speech10><b>First Witch</b></a>
299 <A NAME=1.3.29>Here I have a pilot's thumb,</A><br>
300 <A NAME=1.3.30>Wreck'd as homeward he did come.</A><br>
301 <p><i>Drum within</i></p>
304 <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Witch</b></a>
306 <A NAME=1.3.31>A drum, a drum!</A><br>
307 <A NAME=1.3.32>Macbeth doth come.</A><br>
310 <A NAME=speech12><b>ALL</b></a>
312 <A NAME=1.3.33>The weird sisters, hand in hand,</A><br>
313 <A NAME=1.3.34>Posters of the sea and land,</A><br>
314 <A NAME=1.3.35>Thus do go about, about:</A><br>
315 <A NAME=1.3.36>Thrice to thine and thrice to mine</A><br>
316 <A NAME=1.3.37>And thrice again, to make up nine.</A><br>
317 <A NAME=1.3.38>Peace! the charm's wound up.</A><br>
318 <p><i>Enter MACBETH and BANQUO</i></p>
321 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
323 <A NAME=1.3.39>So foul and fair a day I have not seen.</A><br>
326 <A NAME=speech14><b>BANQUO</b></a>
328 <A NAME=1.3.40>How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these</A><br>
329 <A NAME=1.3.41>So wither'd and so wild in their attire,</A><br>
330 <A NAME=1.3.42>That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,</A><br>
331 <A NAME=1.3.43>And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught</A><br>
332 <A NAME=1.3.44>That man may question? You seem to understand me,</A><br>
333 <A NAME=1.3.45>By each at once her chappy finger laying</A><br>
334 <A NAME=1.3.46>Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,</A><br>
335 <A NAME=1.3.47>And yet your beards forbid me to interpret</A><br>
336 <A NAME=1.3.48>That you are so.</A><br>
339 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
341 <A NAME=1.3.49> Speak, if you can: what are you?</A><br>
344 <A NAME=speech16><b>First Witch</b></a>
346 <A NAME=1.3.50>All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!</A><br>
349 <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Witch</b></a>
351 <A NAME=1.3.51>All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!</A><br>
354 <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Witch</b></a>
356 <A NAME=1.3.52>All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!</A><br>
359 <A NAME=speech19><b>BANQUO</b></a>
361 <A NAME=1.3.53>Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear</A><br>
362 <A NAME=1.3.54>Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,</A><br>
363 <A NAME=1.3.55>Are ye fantastical, or that indeed</A><br>
364 <A NAME=1.3.56>Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner</A><br>
365 <A NAME=1.3.57>You greet with present grace and great prediction</A><br>
366 <A NAME=1.3.58>Of noble having and of royal hope,</A><br>
367 <A NAME=1.3.59>That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.</A><br>
368 <A NAME=1.3.60>If you can look into the seeds of time,</A><br>
369 <A NAME=1.3.61>And say which grain will grow and which will not,</A><br>
370 <A NAME=1.3.62>Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear</A><br>
371 <A NAME=1.3.63>Your favours nor your hate.</A><br>
374 <A NAME=speech20><b>First Witch</b></a>
376 <A NAME=1.3.64>Hail!</A><br>
379 <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Witch</b></a>
381 <A NAME=1.3.65>Hail!</A><br>
384 <A NAME=speech22><b>Third Witch</b></a>
386 <A NAME=1.3.66>Hail!</A><br>
389 <A NAME=speech23><b>First Witch</b></a>
391 <A NAME=1.3.67>Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.</A><br>
394 <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Witch</b></a>
396 <A NAME=1.3.68>Not so happy, yet much happier.</A><br>
399 <A NAME=speech25><b>Third Witch</b></a>
401 <A NAME=1.3.69>Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:</A><br>
402 <A NAME=1.3.70>So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!</A><br>
405 <A NAME=speech26><b>First Witch</b></a>
407 <A NAME=1.3.71>Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!</A><br>
410 <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
412 <A NAME=1.3.72>Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:</A><br>
413 <A NAME=1.3.73>By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;</A><br>
414 <A NAME=1.3.74>But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,</A><br>
415 <A NAME=1.3.75>A prosperous gentleman; and to be king</A><br>
416 <A NAME=1.3.76>Stands not within the prospect of belief,</A><br>
417 <A NAME=1.3.77>No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence</A><br>
418 <A NAME=1.3.78>You owe this strange intelligence? or why</A><br>
419 <A NAME=1.3.79>Upon this blasted heath you stop our way</A><br>
420 <A NAME=1.3.80>With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.</A><br>
421 <p><i>Witches vanish</i></p>
424 <A NAME=speech28><b>BANQUO</b></a>
426 <A NAME=1.3.81>The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,</A><br>
427 <A NAME=1.3.82>And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?</A><br>
430 <A NAME=speech29><b>MACBETH</b></a>
432 <A NAME=1.3.83>Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted</A><br>
433 <A NAME=1.3.84>As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!</A><br>
436 <A NAME=speech30><b>BANQUO</b></a>
438 <A NAME=1.3.85>Were such things here as we do speak about?</A><br>
439 <A NAME=1.3.86>Or have we eaten on the insane root</A><br>
440 <A NAME=1.3.87>That takes the reason prisoner?</A><br>
443 <A NAME=speech31><b>MACBETH</b></a>
445 <A NAME=1.3.88>Your children shall be kings.</A><br>
448 <A NAME=speech32><b>BANQUO</b></a>
450 <A NAME=1.3.89>You shall be king.</A><br>
453 <A NAME=speech33><b>MACBETH</b></a>
455 <A NAME=1.3.90>And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?</A><br>
458 <A NAME=speech34><b>BANQUO</b></a>
460 <A NAME=1.3.91>To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?</A><br>
461 <p><i>Enter ROSS and ANGUS</i></p>
464 <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSS</b></a>
466 <A NAME=1.3.92>The king hath happily received, Macbeth,</A><br>
467 <A NAME=1.3.93>The news of thy success; and when he reads</A><br>
468 <A NAME=1.3.94>Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,</A><br>
469 <A NAME=1.3.95>His wonders and his praises do contend</A><br>
470 <A NAME=1.3.96>Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,</A><br>
471 <A NAME=1.3.97>In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,</A><br>
472 <A NAME=1.3.98>He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,</A><br>
473 <A NAME=1.3.99>Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,</A><br>
474 <A NAME=1.3.100>Strange images of death. As thick as hail</A><br>
475 <A NAME=1.3.101>Came post with post; and every one did bear</A><br>
476 <A NAME=1.3.102>Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,</A><br>
477 <A NAME=1.3.103>And pour'd them down before him.</A><br>
480 <A NAME=speech36><b>ANGUS</b></a>
482 <A NAME=1.3.104>We are sent</A><br>
483 <A NAME=1.3.105>To give thee from our royal master thanks;</A><br>
484 <A NAME=1.3.106>Only to herald thee into his sight,</A><br>
485 <A NAME=1.3.107>Not pay thee.</A><br>
488 <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSS</b></a>
490 <A NAME=1.3.108>And, for an earnest of a greater honour,</A><br>
491 <A NAME=1.3.109>He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:</A><br>
492 <A NAME=1.3.110>In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!</A><br>
493 <A NAME=1.3.111>For it is thine.</A><br>
496 <A NAME=speech38><b>BANQUO</b></a>
498 <A NAME=1.3.112> What, can the devil speak true?</A><br>
501 <A NAME=speech39><b>MACBETH</b></a>
503 <A NAME=1.3.113>The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me</A><br>
504 <A NAME=1.3.114>In borrow'd robes?</A><br>
507 <A NAME=speech40><b>ANGUS</b></a>
509 <A NAME=1.3.115> Who was the thane lives yet;</A><br>
510 <A NAME=1.3.116>But under heavy judgment bears that life</A><br>
511 <A NAME=1.3.117>Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined</A><br>
512 <A NAME=1.3.118>With those of Norway, or did line the rebel</A><br>
513 <A NAME=1.3.119>With hidden help and vantage, or that with both</A><br>
514 <A NAME=1.3.120>He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;</A><br>
515 <A NAME=1.3.121>But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,</A><br>
516 <A NAME=1.3.122>Have overthrown him.</A><br>
519 <A NAME=speech41><b>MACBETH</b></a>
521 <A NAME=1.3.123>[Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!</A><br>
522 <A NAME=1.3.124>The greatest is behind.</A><br>
523 <p><i>To ROSS and ANGUS</i></p>
524 <A NAME=1.3.125>Thanks for your pains.</A><br>
525 <p><i>To BANQUO</i></p>
526 <A NAME=1.3.126>Do you not hope your children shall be kings,</A><br>
527 <A NAME=1.3.127>When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me</A><br>
528 <A NAME=1.3.128>Promised no less to them?</A><br>
531 <A NAME=speech42><b>BANQUO</b></a>
533 <A NAME=1.3.129>That trusted home</A><br>
534 <A NAME=1.3.130>Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,</A><br>
535 <A NAME=1.3.131>Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:</A><br>
536 <A NAME=1.3.132>And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,</A><br>
537 <A NAME=1.3.133>The instruments of darkness tell us truths,</A><br>
538 <A NAME=1.3.134>Win us with honest trifles, to betray's</A><br>
539 <A NAME=1.3.135>In deepest consequence.</A><br>
540 <A NAME=1.3.136>Cousins, a word, I pray you.</A><br>
543 <A NAME=speech43><b>MACBETH</b></a>
545 <A NAME=1.3.137>[Aside] Two truths are told,</A><br>
546 <A NAME=1.3.138>As happy prologues to the swelling act</A><br>
547 <A NAME=1.3.139>Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.</A><br>
549 <A NAME=1.3.140>Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,</A><br>
550 <A NAME=1.3.141>Why hath it given me earnest of success,</A><br>
551 <A NAME=1.3.142>Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:</A><br>
552 <A NAME=1.3.143>If good, why do I yield to that suggestion</A><br>
553 <A NAME=1.3.144>Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair</A><br>
554 <A NAME=1.3.145>And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,</A><br>
555 <A NAME=1.3.146>Against the use of nature? Present fears</A><br>
556 <A NAME=1.3.147>Are less than horrible imaginings:</A><br>
557 <A NAME=1.3.148>My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,</A><br>
558 <A NAME=1.3.149>Shakes so my single state of man that function</A><br>
559 <A NAME=1.3.150>Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is</A><br>
560 <A NAME=1.3.151>But what is not.</A><br>
563 <A NAME=speech44><b>BANQUO</b></a>
565 <A NAME=1.3.152> Look, how our partner's rapt.</A><br>
568 <A NAME=speech45><b>MACBETH</b></a>
570 <A NAME=1.3.153>[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,</A><br>
571 <A NAME=1.3.154>Without my stir.</A><br>
574 <A NAME=speech46><b>BANQUO</b></a>
576 <A NAME=1.3.155> New horrors come upon him,</A><br>
577 <A NAME=1.3.156>Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould</A><br>
578 <A NAME=1.3.157>But with the aid of use.</A><br>
581 <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
583 <A NAME=1.3.158>[Aside] Come what come may,</A><br>
584 <A NAME=1.3.159>Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.</A><br>
587 <A NAME=speech48><b>BANQUO</b></a>
589 <A NAME=1.3.160>Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.</A><br>
592 <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
594 <A NAME=1.3.161>Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought</A><br>
595 <A NAME=1.3.162>With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains</A><br>
596 <A NAME=1.3.163>Are register'd where every day I turn</A><br>
597 <A NAME=1.3.164>The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.</A><br>
598 <A NAME=1.3.165>Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,</A><br>
599 <A NAME=1.3.166>The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak</A><br>
600 <A NAME=1.3.167>Our free hearts each to other.</A><br>
603 <A NAME=speech50><b>BANQUO</b></a>
605 <A NAME=1.3.168>Very gladly.</A><br>
608 <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
610 <A NAME=1.3.169>Till then, enough. Come, friends.</A><br>
613 <h3>SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.</h3>
615 <i>Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants</i>
618 <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
620 <A NAME=1.4.1>Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not</A><br>
621 <A NAME=1.4.2>Those in commission yet return'd?</A><br>
624 <A NAME=speech2><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
626 <A NAME=1.4.3>My liege,</A><br>
627 <A NAME=1.4.4>They are not yet come back. But I have spoke</A><br>
628 <A NAME=1.4.5>With one that saw him die: who did report</A><br>
629 <A NAME=1.4.6>That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,</A><br>
630 <A NAME=1.4.7>Implored your highness' pardon and set forth</A><br>
631 <A NAME=1.4.8>A deep repentance: nothing in his life</A><br>
632 <A NAME=1.4.9>Became him like the leaving it; he died</A><br>
633 <A NAME=1.4.10>As one that had been studied in his death</A><br>
634 <A NAME=1.4.11>To throw away the dearest thing he owed,</A><br>
635 <A NAME=1.4.12>As 'twere a careless trifle.</A><br>
638 <A NAME=speech3><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
640 <A NAME=1.4.13>There's no art</A><br>
641 <A NAME=1.4.14>To find the mind's construction in the face:</A><br>
642 <A NAME=1.4.15>He was a gentleman on whom I built</A><br>
643 <A NAME=1.4.16>An absolute trust.</A><br>
644 <p><i>Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS</i></p>
645 <A NAME=1.4.17>O worthiest cousin!</A><br>
646 <A NAME=1.4.18>The sin of my ingratitude even now</A><br>
647 <A NAME=1.4.19>Was heavy on me: thou art so far before</A><br>
648 <A NAME=1.4.20>That swiftest wing of recompense is slow</A><br>
649 <A NAME=1.4.21>To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,</A><br>
650 <A NAME=1.4.22>That the proportion both of thanks and payment</A><br>
651 <A NAME=1.4.23>Might have been mine! only I have left to say,</A><br>
652 <A NAME=1.4.24>More is thy due than more than all can pay.</A><br>
655 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
657 <A NAME=1.4.25>The service and the loyalty I owe,</A><br>
658 <A NAME=1.4.26>In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part</A><br>
659 <A NAME=1.4.27>Is to receive our duties; and our duties</A><br>
660 <A NAME=1.4.28>Are to your throne and state children and servants,</A><br>
661 <A NAME=1.4.29>Which do but what they should, by doing every thing</A><br>
662 <A NAME=1.4.30>Safe toward your love and honour.</A><br>
665 <A NAME=speech5><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
667 <A NAME=1.4.31>Welcome hither:</A><br>
668 <A NAME=1.4.32>I have begun to plant thee, and will labour</A><br>
669 <A NAME=1.4.33>To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,</A><br>
670 <A NAME=1.4.34>That hast no less deserved, nor must be known</A><br>
671 <A NAME=1.4.35>No less to have done so, let me enfold thee</A><br>
672 <A NAME=1.4.36>And hold thee to my heart.</A><br>
675 <A NAME=speech6><b>BANQUO</b></a>
677 <A NAME=1.4.37>There if I grow,</A><br>
678 <A NAME=1.4.38>The harvest is your own.</A><br>
681 <A NAME=speech7><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
683 <A NAME=1.4.39>My plenteous joys,</A><br>
684 <A NAME=1.4.40>Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves</A><br>
685 <A NAME=1.4.41>In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,</A><br>
686 <A NAME=1.4.42>And you whose places are the nearest, know</A><br>
687 <A NAME=1.4.43>We will establish our estate upon</A><br>
688 <A NAME=1.4.44>Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter</A><br>
689 <A NAME=1.4.45>The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must</A><br>
690 <A NAME=1.4.46>Not unaccompanied invest him only,</A><br>
691 <A NAME=1.4.47>But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine</A><br>
692 <A NAME=1.4.48>On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,</A><br>
693 <A NAME=1.4.49>And bind us further to you.</A><br>
696 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
698 <A NAME=1.4.50>The rest is labour, which is not used for you:</A><br>
699 <A NAME=1.4.51>I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful</A><br>
700 <A NAME=1.4.52>The hearing of my wife with your approach;</A><br>
701 <A NAME=1.4.53>So humbly take my leave.</A><br>
704 <A NAME=speech9><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
706 <A NAME=1.4.54>My worthy Cawdor!</A><br>
709 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
711 <A NAME=1.4.55>[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step</A><br>
712 <A NAME=1.4.56>On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,</A><br>
713 <A NAME=1.4.57>For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;</A><br>
714 <A NAME=1.4.58>Let not light see my black and deep desires:</A><br>
715 <A NAME=1.4.59>The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,</A><br>
716 <A NAME=1.4.60>Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.</A><br>
720 <A NAME=speech11><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
722 <A NAME=1.4.61>True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,</A><br>
723 <A NAME=1.4.62>And in his commendations I am fed;</A><br>
724 <A NAME=1.4.63>It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,</A><br>
725 <A NAME=1.4.64>Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:</A><br>
726 <A NAME=1.4.65>It is a peerless kinsman.</A><br>
727 <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p>
729 <h3>SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.</h3>
731 <i>Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter</i>
734 <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
736 <A NAME=1.5.1>'They met me in the day of success: and I have</A><br>
737 <A NAME=1.5.2>learned by the perfectest report, they have more in</A><br>
738 <A NAME=1.5.3>them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire</A><br>
739 <A NAME=1.5.4>to question them further, they made themselves air,</A><br>
740 <A NAME=1.5.5>into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in</A><br>
741 <A NAME=1.5.6>the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who</A><br>
742 <A NAME=1.5.7>all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,</A><br>
743 <A NAME=1.5.8>before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred</A><br>
744 <A NAME=1.5.9>me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that</A><br>
745 <A NAME=1.5.10>shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver</A><br>
746 <A NAME=1.5.11>thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou</A><br>
747 <A NAME=1.5.12>mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being</A><br>
748 <A NAME=1.5.13>ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it</A><br>
749 <A NAME=1.5.14>to thy heart, and farewell.'</A><br>
750 <A NAME=1.5.15>Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be</A><br>
751 <A NAME=1.5.16>What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;</A><br>
752 <A NAME=1.5.17>It is too full o' the milk of human kindness</A><br>
753 <A NAME=1.5.18>To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;</A><br>
754 <A NAME=1.5.19>Art not without ambition, but without</A><br>
755 <A NAME=1.5.20>The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,</A><br>
756 <A NAME=1.5.21>That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,</A><br>
757 <A NAME=1.5.22>And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,</A><br>
758 <A NAME=1.5.23>That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;</A><br>
759 <A NAME=1.5.24>And that which rather thou dost fear to do</A><br>
760 <A NAME=1.5.25>Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,</A><br>
761 <A NAME=1.5.26>That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;</A><br>
762 <A NAME=1.5.27>And chastise with the valour of my tongue</A><br>
763 <A NAME=1.5.28>All that impedes thee from the golden round,</A><br>
764 <A NAME=1.5.29>Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem</A><br>
765 <A NAME=1.5.30>To have thee crown'd withal.</A><br>
766 <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
767 <A NAME=1.5.31>What is your tidings?</A><br>
770 <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a>
772 <A NAME=1.5.32>The king comes here to-night.</A><br>
775 <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
777 <A NAME=1.5.33>Thou'rt mad to say it:</A><br>
778 <A NAME=1.5.34>Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,</A><br>
779 <A NAME=1.5.35>Would have inform'd for preparation.</A><br>
782 <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a>
784 <A NAME=1.5.36>So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:</A><br>
785 <A NAME=1.5.37>One of my fellows had the speed of him,</A><br>
786 <A NAME=1.5.38>Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more</A><br>
787 <A NAME=1.5.39>Than would make up his message.</A><br>
790 <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
792 <A NAME=1.5.40>Give him tending;</A><br>
793 <A NAME=1.5.41>He brings great news.</A><br>
794 <p><i>Exit Messenger</i></p>
795 <A NAME=1.5.42>The raven himself is hoarse</A><br>
796 <A NAME=1.5.43>That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan</A><br>
797 <A NAME=1.5.44>Under my battlements. Come, you spirits</A><br>
798 <A NAME=1.5.45>That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,</A><br>
799 <A NAME=1.5.46>And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full</A><br>
800 <A NAME=1.5.47>Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;</A><br>
801 <A NAME=1.5.48>Stop up the access and passage to remorse,</A><br>
802 <A NAME=1.5.49>That no compunctious visitings of nature</A><br>
803 <A NAME=1.5.50>Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between</A><br>
804 <A NAME=1.5.51>The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,</A><br>
805 <A NAME=1.5.52>And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,</A><br>
806 <A NAME=1.5.53>Wherever in your sightless substances</A><br>
807 <A NAME=1.5.54>You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,</A><br>
808 <A NAME=1.5.55>And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,</A><br>
809 <A NAME=1.5.56>That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,</A><br>
810 <A NAME=1.5.57>Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,</A><br>
811 <A NAME=1.5.58>To cry 'Hold, hold!'</A><br>
812 <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
813 <A NAME=1.5.59>Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!</A><br>
814 <A NAME=1.5.60>Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!</A><br>
815 <A NAME=1.5.61>Thy letters have transported me beyond</A><br>
816 <A NAME=1.5.62>This ignorant present, and I feel now</A><br>
817 <A NAME=1.5.63>The future in the instant.</A><br>
820 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
822 <A NAME=1.5.64>My dearest love,</A><br>
823 <A NAME=1.5.65>Duncan comes here to-night.</A><br>
826 <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
828 <A NAME=1.5.66>And when goes hence?</A><br>
831 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
833 <A NAME=1.5.67>To-morrow, as he purposes.</A><br>
836 <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
838 <A NAME=1.5.68>O, never</A><br>
839 <A NAME=1.5.69>Shall sun that morrow see!</A><br>
840 <A NAME=1.5.70>Your face, my thane, is as a book where men</A><br>
841 <A NAME=1.5.71>May read strange matters. To beguile the time,</A><br>
842 <A NAME=1.5.72>Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,</A><br>
843 <A NAME=1.5.73>Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,</A><br>
844 <A NAME=1.5.74>But be the serpent under't. He that's coming</A><br>
845 <A NAME=1.5.75>Must be provided for: and you shall put</A><br>
846 <A NAME=1.5.76>This night's great business into my dispatch;</A><br>
847 <A NAME=1.5.77>Which shall to all our nights and days to come</A><br>
848 <A NAME=1.5.78>Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.</A><br>
851 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
853 <A NAME=1.5.79>We will speak further.</A><br>
856 <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
858 <A NAME=1.5.80>Only look up clear;</A><br>
859 <A NAME=1.5.81>To alter favour ever is to fear:</A><br>
860 <A NAME=1.5.82>Leave all the rest to me.</A><br>
863 <h3>SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.</h3>
865 <i>Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants</i>
868 <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
870 <A NAME=1.6.1>This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air</A><br>
871 <A NAME=1.6.2>Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself</A><br>
872 <A NAME=1.6.3>Unto our gentle senses.</A><br>
875 <A NAME=speech2><b>BANQUO</b></a>
877 <A NAME=1.6.4>This guest of summer,</A><br>
878 <A NAME=1.6.5>The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,</A><br>
879 <A NAME=1.6.6>By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath</A><br>
880 <A NAME=1.6.7>Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,</A><br>
881 <A NAME=1.6.8>Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird</A><br>
882 <A NAME=1.6.9>Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:</A><br>
883 <A NAME=1.6.10>Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,</A><br>
884 <A NAME=1.6.11>The air is delicate.</A><br>
885 <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
888 <A NAME=speech3><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
890 <A NAME=1.6.12>See, see, our honour'd hostess!</A><br>
891 <A NAME=1.6.13>The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,</A><br>
892 <A NAME=1.6.14>Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you</A><br>
893 <A NAME=1.6.15>How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,</A><br>
894 <A NAME=1.6.16>And thank us for your trouble.</A><br>
897 <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
899 <A NAME=1.6.17>All our service</A><br>
900 <A NAME=1.6.18>In every point twice done and then done double</A><br>
901 <A NAME=1.6.19>Were poor and single business to contend</A><br>
902 <A NAME=1.6.20>Against those honours deep and broad wherewith</A><br>
903 <A NAME=1.6.21>Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,</A><br>
904 <A NAME=1.6.22>And the late dignities heap'd up to them,</A><br>
905 <A NAME=1.6.23>We rest your hermits.</A><br>
908 <A NAME=speech5><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
910 <A NAME=1.6.24>Where's the thane of Cawdor?</A><br>
911 <A NAME=1.6.25>We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose</A><br>
912 <A NAME=1.6.26>To be his purveyor: but he rides well;</A><br>
913 <A NAME=1.6.27>And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him</A><br>
914 <A NAME=1.6.28>To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,</A><br>
915 <A NAME=1.6.29>We are your guest to-night.</A><br>
918 <A NAME=speech6><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
920 <A NAME=1.6.30>Your servants ever</A><br>
921 <A NAME=1.6.31>Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,</A><br>
922 <A NAME=1.6.32>To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,</A><br>
923 <A NAME=1.6.33>Still to return your own.</A><br>
926 <A NAME=speech7><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
928 <A NAME=1.6.34>Give me your hand;</A><br>
929 <A NAME=1.6.35>Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,</A><br>
930 <A NAME=1.6.36>And shall continue our graces towards him.</A><br>
931 <A NAME=1.6.37>By your leave, hostess.</A><br>
934 <h3>SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.</h3>
936 <i>Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH</i>
939 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
941 <A NAME=1.7.1>If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well</A><br>
942 <A NAME=1.7.2>It were done quickly: if the assassination</A><br>
943 <A NAME=1.7.3>Could trammel up the consequence, and catch</A><br>
944 <A NAME=1.7.4>With his surcease success; that but this blow</A><br>
945 <A NAME=1.7.5>Might be the be-all and the end-all here,</A><br>
946 <A NAME=1.7.6>But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,</A><br>
947 <A NAME=1.7.7>We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases</A><br>
948 <A NAME=1.7.8>We still have judgment here; that we but teach</A><br>
949 <A NAME=1.7.9>Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return</A><br>
950 <A NAME=1.7.10>To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice</A><br>
951 <A NAME=1.7.11>Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice</A><br>
952 <A NAME=1.7.12>To our own lips. He's here in double trust;</A><br>
953 <A NAME=1.7.13>First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,</A><br>
954 <A NAME=1.7.14>Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,</A><br>
955 <A NAME=1.7.15>Who should against his murderer shut the door,</A><br>
956 <A NAME=1.7.16>Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan</A><br>
957 <A NAME=1.7.17>Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been</A><br>
958 <A NAME=1.7.18>So clear in his great office, that his virtues</A><br>
959 <A NAME=1.7.19>Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against</A><br>
960 <A NAME=1.7.20>The deep damnation of his taking-off;</A><br>
961 <A NAME=1.7.21>And pity, like a naked new-born babe,</A><br>
962 <A NAME=1.7.22>Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed</A><br>
963 <A NAME=1.7.23>Upon the sightless couriers of the air,</A><br>
964 <A NAME=1.7.24>Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,</A><br>
965 <A NAME=1.7.25>That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur</A><br>
966 <A NAME=1.7.26>To prick the sides of my intent, but only</A><br>
967 <A NAME=1.7.27>Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself</A><br>
968 <A NAME=1.7.28>And falls on the other.</A><br>
969 <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
970 <A NAME=1.7.29>How now! what news?</A><br>
973 <A NAME=speech2><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
975 <A NAME=1.7.30>He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?</A><br>
978 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
980 <A NAME=1.7.31>Hath he ask'd for me?</A><br>
983 <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
985 <A NAME=1.7.32>Know you not he has?</A><br>
988 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
990 <A NAME=1.7.33>We will proceed no further in this business:</A><br>
991 <A NAME=1.7.34>He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought</A><br>
992 <A NAME=1.7.35>Golden opinions from all sorts of people,</A><br>
993 <A NAME=1.7.36>Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,</A><br>
994 <A NAME=1.7.37>Not cast aside so soon.</A><br>
997 <A NAME=speech6><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
999 <A NAME=1.7.38>Was the hope drunk</A><br>
1000 <A NAME=1.7.39>Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?</A><br>
1001 <A NAME=1.7.40>And wakes it now, to look so green and pale</A><br>
1002 <A NAME=1.7.41>At what it did so freely? From this time</A><br>
1003 <A NAME=1.7.42>Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard</A><br>
1004 <A NAME=1.7.43>To be the same in thine own act and valour</A><br>
1005 <A NAME=1.7.44>As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that</A><br>
1006 <A NAME=1.7.45>Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,</A><br>
1007 <A NAME=1.7.46>And live a coward in thine own esteem,</A><br>
1008 <A NAME=1.7.47>Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'</A><br>
1009 <A NAME=1.7.48>Like the poor cat i' the adage?</A><br>
1012 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1014 <A NAME=1.7.49>Prithee, peace:</A><br>
1015 <A NAME=1.7.50>I dare do all that may become a man;</A><br>
1016 <A NAME=1.7.51>Who dares do more is none.</A><br>
1019 <A NAME=speech8><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1021 <A NAME=1.7.52>What beast was't, then,</A><br>
1022 <A NAME=1.7.53>That made you break this enterprise to me?</A><br>
1023 <A NAME=1.7.54>When you durst do it, then you were a man;</A><br>
1024 <A NAME=1.7.55>And, to be more than what you were, you would</A><br>
1025 <A NAME=1.7.56>Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place</A><br>
1026 <A NAME=1.7.57>Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:</A><br>
1027 <A NAME=1.7.58>They have made themselves, and that their fitness now</A><br>
1028 <A NAME=1.7.59>Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know</A><br>
1029 <A NAME=1.7.60>How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:</A><br>
1030 <A NAME=1.7.61>I would, while it was smiling in my face,</A><br>
1031 <A NAME=1.7.62>Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,</A><br>
1032 <A NAME=1.7.63>And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you</A><br>
1033 <A NAME=1.7.64>Have done to this.</A><br>
1036 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1038 <A NAME=1.7.65> If we should fail?</A><br>
1041 <A NAME=speech10><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1043 <A NAME=1.7.66>We fail!</A><br>
1044 <A NAME=1.7.67>But screw your courage to the sticking-place,</A><br>
1045 <A NAME=1.7.68>And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--</A><br>
1046 <A NAME=1.7.69>Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey</A><br>
1047 <A NAME=1.7.70>Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains</A><br>
1048 <A NAME=1.7.71>Will I with wine and wassail so convince</A><br>
1049 <A NAME=1.7.72>That memory, the warder of the brain,</A><br>
1050 <A NAME=1.7.73>Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason</A><br>
1051 <A NAME=1.7.74>A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep</A><br>
1052 <A NAME=1.7.75>Their drenched natures lie as in a death,</A><br>
1053 <A NAME=1.7.76>What cannot you and I perform upon</A><br>
1054 <A NAME=1.7.77>The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon</A><br>
1055 <A NAME=1.7.78>His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt</A><br>
1056 <A NAME=1.7.79>Of our great quell?</A><br>
1059 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1061 <A NAME=1.7.80>Bring forth men-children only;</A><br>
1062 <A NAME=1.7.81>For thy undaunted mettle should compose</A><br>
1063 <A NAME=1.7.82>Nothing but males. Will it not be received,</A><br>
1064 <A NAME=1.7.83>When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two</A><br>
1065 <A NAME=1.7.84>Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,</A><br>
1066 <A NAME=1.7.85>That they have done't?</A><br>
1069 <A NAME=speech12><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1071 <A NAME=1.7.86>Who dares receive it other,</A><br>
1072 <A NAME=1.7.87>As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar</A><br>
1073 <A NAME=1.7.88>Upon his death?</A><br>
1076 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1078 <A NAME=1.7.89> I am settled, and bend up</A><br>
1079 <A NAME=1.7.90>Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.</A><br>
1080 <A NAME=1.7.91>Away, and mock the time with fairest show:</A><br>
1081 <A NAME=1.7.92>False face must hide what the false heart doth know.</A><br>
1082 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1085 <h3>SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.</h3>
1087 <i>Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him</i>
1090 <A NAME=speech1><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1092 <A NAME=2.1.1>How goes the night, boy?</A><br>
1095 <A NAME=speech2><b>FLEANCE</b></a>
1097 <A NAME=2.1.2>The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.</A><br>
1100 <A NAME=speech3><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1102 <A NAME=2.1.3>And she goes down at twelve.</A><br>
1105 <A NAME=speech4><b>FLEANCE</b></a>
1107 <A NAME=2.1.4>I take't, 'tis later, sir.</A><br>
1110 <A NAME=speech5><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1112 <A NAME=2.1.5>Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;</A><br>
1113 <A NAME=2.1.6>Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.</A><br>
1114 <A NAME=2.1.7>A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,</A><br>
1115 <A NAME=2.1.8>And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,</A><br>
1116 <A NAME=2.1.9>Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature</A><br>
1117 <A NAME=2.1.10>Gives way to in repose!</A><br>
1118 <p><i>Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch</i></p>
1119 <A NAME=2.1.11>Give me my sword.</A><br>
1120 <A NAME=2.1.12>Who's there?</A><br>
1123 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1125 <A NAME=2.1.13>A friend.</A><br>
1128 <A NAME=speech7><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1130 <A NAME=2.1.14>What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:</A><br>
1131 <A NAME=2.1.15>He hath been in unusual pleasure, and</A><br>
1132 <A NAME=2.1.16>Sent forth great largess to your offices.</A><br>
1133 <A NAME=2.1.17>This diamond he greets your wife withal,</A><br>
1134 <A NAME=2.1.18>By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up</A><br>
1135 <A NAME=2.1.19>In measureless content.</A><br>
1138 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1140 <A NAME=2.1.20>Being unprepared,</A><br>
1141 <A NAME=2.1.21>Our will became the servant to defect;</A><br>
1142 <A NAME=2.1.22>Which else should free have wrought.</A><br>
1145 <A NAME=speech9><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1147 <A NAME=2.1.23>All's well.</A><br>
1148 <A NAME=2.1.24>I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:</A><br>
1149 <A NAME=2.1.25>To you they have show'd some truth.</A><br>
1152 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1154 <A NAME=2.1.26>I think not of them:</A><br>
1155 <A NAME=2.1.27>Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,</A><br>
1156 <A NAME=2.1.28>We would spend it in some words upon that business,</A><br>
1157 <A NAME=2.1.29>If you would grant the time.</A><br>
1160 <A NAME=speech11><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1162 <A NAME=2.1.30>At your kind'st leisure.</A><br>
1165 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1167 <A NAME=2.1.31>If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,</A><br>
1168 <A NAME=2.1.32>It shall make honour for you.</A><br>
1171 <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1173 <A NAME=2.1.33>So I lose none</A><br>
1174 <A NAME=2.1.34>In seeking to augment it, but still keep</A><br>
1175 <A NAME=2.1.35>My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,</A><br>
1176 <A NAME=2.1.36>I shall be counsell'd.</A><br>
1179 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1181 <A NAME=2.1.37>Good repose the while!</A><br>
1184 <A NAME=speech15><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1186 <A NAME=2.1.38>Thanks, sir: the like to you!</A><br>
1187 <p><i>Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE</i></p>
1190 <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1192 <A NAME=2.1.39>Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,</A><br>
1193 <A NAME=2.1.40>She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.</A><br>
1194 <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
1195 <A NAME=2.1.41>Is this a dagger which I see before me,</A><br>
1196 <A NAME=2.1.42>The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.</A><br>
1197 <A NAME=2.1.43>I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.</A><br>
1198 <A NAME=2.1.44>Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible</A><br>
1199 <A NAME=2.1.45>To feeling as to sight? or art thou but</A><br>
1200 <A NAME=2.1.46>A dagger of the mind, a false creation,</A><br>
1201 <A NAME=2.1.47>Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?</A><br>
1202 <A NAME=2.1.48>I see thee yet, in form as palpable</A><br>
1203 <A NAME=2.1.49>As this which now I draw.</A><br>
1204 <A NAME=2.1.50>Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;</A><br>
1205 <A NAME=2.1.51>And such an instrument I was to use.</A><br>
1206 <A NAME=2.1.52>Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,</A><br>
1207 <A NAME=2.1.53>Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,</A><br>
1208 <A NAME=2.1.54>And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,</A><br>
1209 <A NAME=2.1.55>Which was not so before. There's no such thing:</A><br>
1210 <A NAME=2.1.56>It is the bloody business which informs</A><br>
1211 <A NAME=2.1.57>Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld</A><br>
1212 <A NAME=2.1.58>Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse</A><br>
1213 <A NAME=2.1.59>The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates</A><br>
1214 <A NAME=2.1.60>Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,</A><br>
1215 <A NAME=2.1.61>Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,</A><br>
1216 <A NAME=2.1.62>Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.</A><br>
1217 <A NAME=2.1.63>With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design</A><br>
1218 <A NAME=2.1.64>Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,</A><br>
1219 <A NAME=2.1.65>Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear</A><br>
1220 <A NAME=2.1.66>Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,</A><br>
1221 <A NAME=2.1.67>And take the present horror from the time,</A><br>
1222 <A NAME=2.1.68>Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:</A><br>
1223 <A NAME=2.1.69>Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.</A><br>
1224 <p><i>A bell rings</i></p>
1225 <A NAME=2.1.70>I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.</A><br>
1226 <A NAME=2.1.71>Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell</A><br>
1227 <A NAME=2.1.72>That summons thee to heaven or to hell.</A><br>
1230 <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3>
1232 <i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i>
1235 <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1237 <A NAME=2.2.1>That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;</A><br>
1238 <A NAME=2.2.2>What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.</A><br>
1239 <A NAME=2.2.3>Hark! Peace!</A><br>
1240 <A NAME=2.2.4>It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,</A><br>
1241 <A NAME=2.2.5>Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:</A><br>
1242 <A NAME=2.2.6>The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms</A><br>
1243 <A NAME=2.2.7>Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd</A><br>
1244 <A NAME=2.2.8>their possets,</A><br>
1245 <A NAME=2.2.9>That death and nature do contend about them,</A><br>
1246 <A NAME=2.2.10>Whether they live or die.</A><br>
1249 <A NAME=speech2><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1251 <A NAME=2.2.11>[Within] Who's there? what, ho!</A><br>
1254 <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1256 <A NAME=2.2.12>Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,</A><br>
1257 <A NAME=2.2.13>And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed</A><br>
1258 <A NAME=2.2.14>Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;</A><br>
1259 <A NAME=2.2.15>He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled</A><br>
1260 <A NAME=2.2.16>My father as he slept, I had done't.</A><br>
1261 <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
1262 <A NAME=2.2.17>My husband!</A><br>
1265 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1267 <A NAME=2.2.18>I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?</A><br>
1270 <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1272 <A NAME=2.2.19>I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.</A><br>
1273 <A NAME=2.2.20>Did not you speak?</A><br>
1276 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1278 <A NAME=2.2.21> When?</A><br>
1281 <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1283 <A NAME=2.2.22>Now.</A><br>
1286 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1288 <A NAME=2.2.23>As I descended?</A><br>
1291 <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1293 <A NAME=2.2.24>Ay.</A><br>
1296 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1298 <A NAME=2.2.25>Hark!</A><br>
1299 <A NAME=2.2.26>Who lies i' the second chamber?</A><br>
1302 <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1304 <A NAME=2.2.27>Donalbain.</A><br>
1307 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1309 <A NAME=2.2.28>This is a sorry sight.</A><br>
1310 <p><i>Looking on his hands</i></p>
1313 <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1315 <A NAME=2.2.29>A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.</A><br>
1318 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1320 <A NAME=2.2.30>There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried</A><br>
1321 <A NAME=2.2.31>'Murder!'</A><br>
1322 <A NAME=2.2.32>That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:</A><br>
1323 <A NAME=2.2.33>But they did say their prayers, and address'd them</A><br>
1324 <A NAME=2.2.34>Again to sleep.</A><br>
1327 <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1329 <A NAME=2.2.35> There are two lodged together.</A><br>
1332 <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1334 <A NAME=2.2.36>One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;</A><br>
1335 <A NAME=2.2.37>As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.</A><br>
1336 <A NAME=2.2.38>Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'</A><br>
1337 <A NAME=2.2.39>When they did say 'God bless us!'</A><br>
1340 <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1342 <A NAME=2.2.40>Consider it not so deeply.</A><br>
1345 <A NAME=speech18><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1347 <A NAME=2.2.41>But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?</A><br>
1348 <A NAME=2.2.42>I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'</A><br>
1349 <A NAME=2.2.43>Stuck in my throat.</A><br>
1352 <A NAME=speech19><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1354 <A NAME=2.2.44>These deeds must not be thought</A><br>
1355 <A NAME=2.2.45>After these ways; so, it will make us mad.</A><br>
1358 <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1360 <A NAME=2.2.46>Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!</A><br>
1361 <A NAME=2.2.47>Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,</A><br>
1362 <A NAME=2.2.48>Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,</A><br>
1363 <A NAME=2.2.49>The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,</A><br>
1364 <A NAME=2.2.50>Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,</A><br>
1365 <A NAME=2.2.51>Chief nourisher in life's feast,--</A><br>
1368 <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1370 <A NAME=2.2.52>What do you mean?</A><br>
1373 <A NAME=speech22><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1375 <A NAME=2.2.53>Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:</A><br>
1376 <A NAME=2.2.54>'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor</A><br>
1377 <A NAME=2.2.55>Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'</A><br>
1380 <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1382 <A NAME=2.2.56>Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,</A><br>
1383 <A NAME=2.2.57>You do unbend your noble strength, to think</A><br>
1384 <A NAME=2.2.58>So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,</A><br>
1385 <A NAME=2.2.59>And wash this filthy witness from your hand.</A><br>
1386 <A NAME=2.2.60>Why did you bring these daggers from the place?</A><br>
1387 <A NAME=2.2.61>They must lie there: go carry them; and smear</A><br>
1388 <A NAME=2.2.62>The sleepy grooms with blood.</A><br>
1391 <A NAME=speech24><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1393 <A NAME=2.2.63>I'll go no more:</A><br>
1394 <A NAME=2.2.64>I am afraid to think what I have done;</A><br>
1395 <A NAME=2.2.65>Look on't again I dare not.</A><br>
1398 <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1400 <A NAME=2.2.66>Infirm of purpose!</A><br>
1401 <A NAME=2.2.67>Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead</A><br>
1402 <A NAME=2.2.68>Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood</A><br>
1403 <A NAME=2.2.69>That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,</A><br>
1404 <A NAME=2.2.70>I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;</A><br>
1405 <A NAME=2.2.71>For it must seem their guilt.</A><br>
1406 <p><i>Exit. Knocking within</i></p>
1409 <A NAME=speech26><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1411 <A NAME=2.2.72>Whence is that knocking?</A><br>
1412 <A NAME=2.2.73>How is't with me, when every noise appals me?</A><br>
1413 <A NAME=2.2.74>What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.</A><br>
1414 <A NAME=2.2.75>Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood</A><br>
1415 <A NAME=2.2.76>Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather</A><br>
1416 <A NAME=2.2.77>The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,</A><br>
1417 <A NAME=2.2.78>Making the green one red.</A><br>
1418 <p><i>Re-enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
1421 <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1423 <A NAME=2.2.79>My hands are of your colour; but I shame</A><br>
1424 <A NAME=2.2.80>To wear a heart so white.</A><br>
1425 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1426 <A NAME=2.2.81>I hear a knocking</A><br>
1427 <A NAME=2.2.82>At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;</A><br>
1428 <A NAME=2.2.83>A little water clears us of this deed:</A><br>
1429 <A NAME=2.2.84>How easy is it, then! Your constancy</A><br>
1430 <A NAME=2.2.85>Hath left you unattended.</A><br>
1431 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1432 <A NAME=2.2.86>Hark! more knocking.</A><br>
1433 <A NAME=2.2.87>Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,</A><br>
1434 <A NAME=2.2.88>And show us to be watchers. Be not lost</A><br>
1435 <A NAME=2.2.89>So poorly in your thoughts.</A><br>
1438 <A NAME=speech28><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1440 <A NAME=2.2.90>To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.</A><br>
1441 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1442 <A NAME=2.2.91>Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!</A><br>
1443 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1445 <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3>
1447 <i>Knocking within. Enter a Porter</i>
1450 <A NAME=speech1><b>Porter</b></a>
1452 <A NAME=2.3.1>Here's a knocking indeed! If a</A><br>
1453 <A NAME=2.3.2>man were porter of hell-gate, he should have</A><br>
1454 <A NAME=2.3.3>old turning the key.</A><br>
1455 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1456 <A NAME=2.3.4>Knock,</A><br>
1457 <A NAME=2.3.5>knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of</A><br>
1458 <A NAME=2.3.6>Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged</A><br>
1459 <A NAME=2.3.7>himself on the expectation of plenty: come in</A><br>
1460 <A NAME=2.3.8>time; have napkins enow about you; here</A><br>
1461 <A NAME=2.3.9>you'll sweat for't.</A><br>
1462 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1463 <A NAME=2.3.10>Knock,</A><br>
1464 <A NAME=2.3.11>knock! Who's there, in the other devil's</A><br>
1465 <A NAME=2.3.12>name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could</A><br>
1466 <A NAME=2.3.13>swear in both the scales against either scale;</A><br>
1467 <A NAME=2.3.14>who committed treason enough for God's sake,</A><br>
1468 <A NAME=2.3.15>yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come</A><br>
1469 <A NAME=2.3.16>in, equivocator.</A><br>
1470 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1471 <A NAME=2.3.17>Knock,</A><br>
1472 <A NAME=2.3.18>knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an</A><br>
1473 <A NAME=2.3.19>English tailor come hither, for stealing out of</A><br>
1474 <A NAME=2.3.20>a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may</A><br>
1475 <A NAME=2.3.21>roast your goose.</A><br>
1476 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1477 <A NAME=2.3.22>Knock,</A><br>
1478 <A NAME=2.3.23>knock; never at quiet! What are you? But</A><br>
1479 <A NAME=2.3.24>this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter</A><br>
1480 <A NAME=2.3.25>it no further: I had thought to have let in</A><br>
1481 <A NAME=2.3.26>some of all professions that go the primrose</A><br>
1482 <A NAME=2.3.27>way to the everlasting bonfire.</A><br>
1483 <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
1484 <A NAME=2.3.28>Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.</A><br>
1485 <p><i>Opens the gate</i></p>
1486 <p><i>Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX</i></p>
1489 <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1491 <A NAME=2.3.29>Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,</A><br>
1492 <A NAME=2.3.30>That you do lie so late?</A><br>
1495 <A NAME=speech3><b>Porter</b></a>
1497 <A NAME=2.3.31>'Faith sir, we were carousing till the</A><br>
1498 <A NAME=2.3.32>second cock: and drink, sir, is a great</A><br>
1499 <A NAME=2.3.33>provoker of three things.</A><br>
1502 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1504 <A NAME=2.3.34>What three things does drink especially provoke?</A><br>
1507 <A NAME=speech5><b>Porter</b></a>
1509 <A NAME=2.3.35>Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and</A><br>
1510 <A NAME=2.3.36>urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;</A><br>
1511 <A NAME=2.3.37>it provokes the desire, but it takes</A><br>
1512 <A NAME=2.3.38>away the performance: therefore, much drink</A><br>
1513 <A NAME=2.3.39>may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:</A><br>
1514 <A NAME=2.3.40>it makes him, and it mars him; it sets</A><br>
1515 <A NAME=2.3.41>him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,</A><br>
1516 <A NAME=2.3.42>and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and</A><br>
1517 <A NAME=2.3.43>not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him</A><br>
1518 <A NAME=2.3.44>in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.</A><br>
1521 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1523 <A NAME=2.3.45>I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.</A><br>
1526 <A NAME=speech7><b>Porter</b></a>
1528 <A NAME=2.3.46>That it did, sir, i' the very throat on</A><br>
1529 <A NAME=2.3.47>me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I</A><br>
1530 <A NAME=2.3.48>think, being too strong for him, though he took</A><br>
1531 <A NAME=2.3.49>up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast</A><br>
1532 <A NAME=2.3.50>him.</A><br>
1535 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1537 <A NAME=2.3.51>Is thy master stirring?</A><br>
1538 <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
1539 <A NAME=2.3.52>Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.</A><br>
1542 <A NAME=speech9><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1544 <A NAME=2.3.53>Good morrow, noble sir.</A><br>
1547 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1549 <A NAME=2.3.54>Good morrow, both.</A><br>
1552 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1554 <A NAME=2.3.55>Is the king stirring, worthy thane?</A><br>
1557 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1559 <A NAME=2.3.56>Not yet.</A><br>
1562 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1564 <A NAME=2.3.57>He did command me to call timely on him:</A><br>
1565 <A NAME=2.3.58>I have almost slipp'd the hour.</A><br>
1568 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1570 <A NAME=2.3.59>I'll bring you to him.</A><br>
1573 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1575 <A NAME=2.3.60>I know this is a joyful trouble to you;</A><br>
1576 <A NAME=2.3.61>But yet 'tis one.</A><br>
1579 <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1581 <A NAME=2.3.62>The labour we delight in physics pain.</A><br>
1582 <A NAME=2.3.63>This is the door.</A><br>
1585 <A NAME=speech17><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1587 <A NAME=2.3.64> I'll make so bold to call,</A><br>
1588 <A NAME=2.3.65>For 'tis my limited service.</A><br>
1592 <A NAME=speech18><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1594 <A NAME=2.3.66>Goes the king hence to-day?</A><br>
1597 <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1599 <A NAME=2.3.67>He does: he did appoint so.</A><br>
1602 <A NAME=speech20><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1604 <A NAME=2.3.68>The night has been unruly: where we lay,</A><br>
1605 <A NAME=2.3.69>Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,</A><br>
1606 <A NAME=2.3.70>Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,</A><br>
1607 <A NAME=2.3.71>And prophesying with accents terrible</A><br>
1608 <A NAME=2.3.72>Of dire combustion and confused events</A><br>
1609 <A NAME=2.3.73>New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird</A><br>
1610 <A NAME=2.3.74>Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth</A><br>
1611 <A NAME=2.3.75>Was feverous and did shake.</A><br>
1614 <A NAME=speech21><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1616 <A NAME=2.3.76>'Twas a rough night.</A><br>
1619 <A NAME=speech22><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1621 <A NAME=2.3.77>My young remembrance cannot parallel</A><br>
1622 <A NAME=2.3.78>A fellow to it.</A><br>
1623 <p><i>Re-enter MACDUFF</i></p>
1626 <A NAME=speech23><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1628 <A NAME=2.3.79>O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart</A><br>
1629 <A NAME=2.3.80>Cannot conceive nor name thee!</A><br>
1632 <A NAME=speech24><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1634 <A NAME=speech25><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1636 <A NAME=2.3.81>What's the matter.</A><br>
1639 <A NAME=speech26><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1641 <A NAME=2.3.82>Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!</A><br>
1642 <A NAME=2.3.83>Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope</A><br>
1643 <A NAME=2.3.84>The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence</A><br>
1644 <A NAME=2.3.85>The life o' the building!</A><br>
1647 <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1649 <A NAME=2.3.86>What is 't you say? the life?</A><br>
1652 <A NAME=speech28><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1654 <A NAME=2.3.87>Mean you his majesty?</A><br>
1657 <A NAME=speech29><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1659 <A NAME=2.3.88>Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight</A><br>
1660 <A NAME=2.3.89>With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;</A><br>
1661 <A NAME=2.3.90>See, and then speak yourselves.</A><br>
1662 <p><i>Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX</i></p>
1663 <A NAME=2.3.91>Awake, awake!</A><br>
1664 <A NAME=2.3.92>Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!</A><br>
1665 <A NAME=2.3.93>Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!</A><br>
1666 <A NAME=2.3.94>Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,</A><br>
1667 <A NAME=2.3.95>And look on death itself! up, up, and see</A><br>
1668 <A NAME=2.3.96>The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!</A><br>
1669 <A NAME=2.3.97>As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,</A><br>
1670 <A NAME=2.3.98>To countenance this horror! Ring the bell.</A><br>
1671 <p><i>Bell rings</i></p>
1672 <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
1675 <A NAME=speech30><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1677 <A NAME=2.3.99>What's the business,</A><br>
1678 <A NAME=2.3.100>That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley</A><br>
1679 <A NAME=2.3.101>The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!</A><br>
1682 <A NAME=speech31><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1684 <A NAME=2.3.102>O gentle lady,</A><br>
1685 <A NAME=2.3.103>'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:</A><br>
1686 <A NAME=2.3.104>The repetition, in a woman's ear,</A><br>
1687 <A NAME=2.3.105>Would murder as it fell.</A><br>
1688 <p><i>Enter BANQUO</i></p>
1689 <A NAME=2.3.106>O Banquo, Banquo,</A><br>
1690 <A NAME=2.3.107>Our royal master 's murder'd!</A><br>
1693 <A NAME=speech32><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1695 <A NAME=2.3.108>Woe, alas!</A><br>
1696 <A NAME=2.3.109>What, in our house?</A><br>
1699 <A NAME=speech33><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1701 <A NAME=2.3.110>Too cruel any where.</A><br>
1702 <A NAME=2.3.111>Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,</A><br>
1703 <A NAME=2.3.112>And say it is not so.</A><br>
1704 <p><i>Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS</i></p>
1707 <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1709 <A NAME=2.3.113>Had I but died an hour before this chance,</A><br>
1710 <A NAME=2.3.114>I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,</A><br>
1711 <A NAME=2.3.115>There 's nothing serious in mortality:</A><br>
1712 <A NAME=2.3.116>All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;</A><br>
1713 <A NAME=2.3.117>The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees</A><br>
1714 <A NAME=2.3.118>Is left this vault to brag of.</A><br>
1715 <p><i>Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN</i></p>
1718 <A NAME=speech35><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
1720 <A NAME=2.3.119>What is amiss?</A><br>
1723 <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1725 <A NAME=2.3.120> You are, and do not know't:</A><br>
1726 <A NAME=2.3.121>The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood</A><br>
1727 <A NAME=2.3.122>Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd.</A><br>
1730 <A NAME=speech37><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1732 <A NAME=2.3.123>Your royal father 's murder'd.</A><br>
1735 <A NAME=speech38><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
1737 <A NAME=2.3.124>O, by whom?</A><br>
1740 <A NAME=speech39><b>LENNOX</b></a>
1742 <A NAME=2.3.125>Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:</A><br>
1743 <A NAME=2.3.126>Their hands and faces were an badged with blood;</A><br>
1744 <A NAME=2.3.127>So were their daggers, which unwiped we found</A><br>
1745 <A NAME=2.3.128>Upon their pillows:</A><br>
1746 <A NAME=2.3.129>They stared, and were distracted; no man's life</A><br>
1747 <A NAME=2.3.130>Was to be trusted with them.</A><br>
1750 <A NAME=speech40><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1752 <A NAME=2.3.131>O, yet I do repent me of my fury,</A><br>
1753 <A NAME=2.3.132>That I did kill them.</A><br>
1756 <A NAME=speech41><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1758 <A NAME=2.3.133>Wherefore did you so?</A><br>
1761 <A NAME=speech42><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1763 <A NAME=2.3.134>Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,</A><br>
1764 <A NAME=2.3.135>Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:</A><br>
1765 <A NAME=2.3.136>The expedition my violent love</A><br>
1766 <A NAME=2.3.137>Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,</A><br>
1767 <A NAME=2.3.138>His silver skin laced with his golden blood;</A><br>
1768 <A NAME=2.3.139>And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature</A><br>
1769 <A NAME=2.3.140>For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,</A><br>
1770 <A NAME=2.3.141>Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers</A><br>
1771 <A NAME=2.3.142>Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,</A><br>
1772 <A NAME=2.3.143>That had a heart to love, and in that heart</A><br>
1773 <A NAME=2.3.144>Courage to make 's love kno wn?</A><br>
1776 <A NAME=speech43><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
1778 <A NAME=2.3.145>Help me hence, ho!</A><br>
1781 <A NAME=speech44><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1783 <A NAME=2.3.146>Look to the lady.</A><br>
1786 <A NAME=speech45><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
1788 <A NAME=2.3.147>[Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we hold our tongues,</A><br>
1789 <A NAME=2.3.148>That most may claim this argument for ours?</A><br>
1792 <A NAME=speech46><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
1794 <A NAME=2.3.149>[Aside to MALCOLM] What should be spoken here,</A><br>
1795 <A NAME=2.3.150>where our fate,</A><br>
1796 <A NAME=2.3.151>Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?</A><br>
1797 <A NAME=2.3.152>Let 's away;</A><br>
1798 <A NAME=2.3.153>Our tears are not yet brew'd.</A><br>
1801 <A NAME=speech47><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
1803 <A NAME=2.3.154>[Aside to DONALBAIN] Nor our strong sorrow</A><br>
1804 <A NAME=2.3.155>Upon the foot of motion.</A><br>
1807 <A NAME=speech48><b>BANQUO</b></a>
1809 <A NAME=2.3.156>Look to the lady:</A><br>
1810 <p><i>LADY MACBETH is carried out</i></p>
1811 <A NAME=2.3.157>And when we have our naked frailties hid,</A><br>
1812 <A NAME=2.3.158>That suffer in exposure, let us meet,</A><br>
1813 <A NAME=2.3.159>And question this most bloody piece of work,</A><br>
1814 <A NAME=2.3.160>To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:</A><br>
1815 <A NAME=2.3.161>In the great hand of God I stand; and thence</A><br>
1816 <A NAME=2.3.162>Against the undivulged pretence I fight</A><br>
1817 <A NAME=2.3.163>Of treasonous malice.</A><br>
1820 <A NAME=speech49><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1822 <A NAME=2.3.164>And so do I.</A><br>
1825 <A NAME=speech50><b>ALL</b></a>
1827 <A NAME=2.3.165>So all.</A><br>
1830 <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
1832 <A NAME=2.3.166>Let's briefly put on manly readiness,</A><br>
1833 <A NAME=2.3.167>And meet i' the hall together.</A><br>
1836 <A NAME=speech52><b>ALL</b></a>
1838 <A NAME=2.3.168>Well contented.</A><br>
1839 <p><i>Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.</i></p>
1842 <A NAME=speech53><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
1844 <A NAME=2.3.169>What will you do? Let's not consort with them:</A><br>
1845 <A NAME=2.3.170>To show an unfelt sorrow is an office</A><br>
1846 <A NAME=2.3.171>Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.</A><br>
1849 <A NAME=speech54><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
1851 <A NAME=2.3.172>To Ireland, I; our separated fortune</A><br>
1852 <A NAME=2.3.173>Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,</A><br>
1853 <A NAME=2.3.174>There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,</A><br>
1854 <A NAME=2.3.175>The nearer bloody.</A><br>
1857 <A NAME=speech55><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
1859 <A NAME=2.3.176> This murderous shaft that's shot</A><br>
1860 <A NAME=2.3.177>Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way</A><br>
1861 <A NAME=2.3.178>Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;</A><br>
1862 <A NAME=2.3.179>And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,</A><br>
1863 <A NAME=2.3.180>But shift away: there's warrant in that theft</A><br>
1864 <A NAME=2.3.181>Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.</A><br>
1865 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1867 <h3>SCENE IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.</h3>
1869 <i>Enter ROSS and an old Man</i>
1872 <A NAME=speech1><b>Old Man</b></a>
1874 <A NAME=2.4.1>Threescore and ten I can remember well:</A><br>
1875 <A NAME=2.4.2>Within the volume of which time I have seen</A><br>
1876 <A NAME=2.4.3>Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night</A><br>
1877 <A NAME=2.4.4>Hath trifled former knowings.</A><br>
1880 <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSS</b></a>
1882 <A NAME=2.4.5>Ah, good father,</A><br>
1883 <A NAME=2.4.6>Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,</A><br>
1884 <A NAME=2.4.7>Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,</A><br>
1885 <A NAME=2.4.8>And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:</A><br>
1886 <A NAME=2.4.9>Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,</A><br>
1887 <A NAME=2.4.10>That darkness does the face of earth entomb,</A><br>
1888 <A NAME=2.4.11>When living light should kiss it?</A><br>
1891 <A NAME=speech3><b>Old Man</b></a>
1893 <A NAME=2.4.12>'Tis unnatural,</A><br>
1894 <A NAME=2.4.13>Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,</A><br>
1895 <A NAME=2.4.14>A falcon, towering in her pride of place,</A><br>
1896 <A NAME=2.4.15>Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.</A><br>
1899 <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSS</b></a>
1901 <A NAME=2.4.16>And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--</A><br>
1902 <A NAME=2.4.17>Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,</A><br>
1903 <A NAME=2.4.18>Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,</A><br>
1904 <A NAME=2.4.19>Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make</A><br>
1905 <A NAME=2.4.20>War with mankind.</A><br>
1908 <A NAME=speech5><b>Old Man</b></a>
1910 <A NAME=2.4.21>'Tis said they eat each other.</A><br>
1913 <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSS</b></a>
1915 <A NAME=2.4.22>They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes</A><br>
1916 <A NAME=2.4.23>That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff.</A><br>
1917 <p><i>Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
1918 <A NAME=2.4.24>How goes the world, sir, now?</A><br>
1921 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1923 <A NAME=2.4.25>Why, see you not?</A><br>
1926 <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSS</b></a>
1928 <A NAME=2.4.26>Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?</A><br>
1931 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1933 <A NAME=2.4.27>Those that Macbeth hath slain.</A><br>
1936 <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSS</b></a>
1938 <A NAME=2.4.28>Alas, the day!</A><br>
1939 <A NAME=2.4.29>What good could they pretend?</A><br>
1942 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1944 <A NAME=2.4.30>They were suborn'd:</A><br>
1945 <A NAME=2.4.31>Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,</A><br>
1946 <A NAME=2.4.32>Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them</A><br>
1947 <A NAME=2.4.33>Suspicion of the deed.</A><br>
1950 <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSS</b></a>
1952 <A NAME=2.4.34>'Gainst nature still!</A><br>
1953 <A NAME=2.4.35>Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up</A><br>
1954 <A NAME=2.4.36>Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like</A><br>
1955 <A NAME=2.4.37>The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.</A><br>
1958 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1960 <A NAME=2.4.38>He is already named, and gone to Scone</A><br>
1961 <A NAME=2.4.39>To be invested.</A><br>
1964 <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSS</b></a>
1966 <A NAME=2.4.40> Where is Duncan's body?</A><br>
1969 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1971 <A NAME=2.4.41>Carried to Colmekill,</A><br>
1972 <A NAME=2.4.42>The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,</A><br>
1973 <A NAME=2.4.43>And guardian of their bones.</A><br>
1976 <A NAME=speech16><b>ROSS</b></a>
1978 <A NAME=2.4.44>Will you to Scone?</A><br>
1981 <A NAME=speech17><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1983 <A NAME=2.4.45>No, cousin, I'll to Fife.</A><br>
1986 <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSS</b></a>
1988 <A NAME=2.4.46>Well, I will thither.</A><br>
1991 <A NAME=speech19><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
1993 <A NAME=2.4.47>Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!</A><br>
1994 <A NAME=2.4.48>Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!</A><br>
1997 <A NAME=speech20><b>ROSS</b></a>
1999 <A NAME=2.4.49>Farewell, father.</A><br>
2002 <A NAME=speech21><b>Old Man</b></a>
2004 <A NAME=2.4.50>God's benison go with you; and with those</A><br>
2005 <A NAME=2.4.51>That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!</A><br>
2006 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2009 <h3>SCENE I. Forres. The palace.</h3>
2014 <A NAME=speech1><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2016 <A NAME=3.1.1>Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,</A><br>
2017 <A NAME=3.1.2>As the weird women promised, and, I fear,</A><br>
2018 <A NAME=3.1.3>Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said</A><br>
2019 <A NAME=3.1.4>It should not stand in thy posterity,</A><br>
2020 <A NAME=3.1.5>But that myself should be the root and father</A><br>
2021 <A NAME=3.1.6>Of many kings. If there come truth from them--</A><br>
2022 <A NAME=3.1.7>As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--</A><br>
2023 <A NAME=3.1.8>Why, by the verities on thee made good,</A><br>
2024 <A NAME=3.1.9>May they not be my oracles as well,</A><br>
2025 <A NAME=3.1.10>And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.</A><br>
2026 <p><i>Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants</i></p>
2029 <A NAME=speech2><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2031 <A NAME=3.1.11>Here's our chief guest.</A><br>
2034 <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2036 <A NAME=3.1.12>If he had been forgotten,</A><br>
2037 <A NAME=3.1.13>It had been as a gap in our great feast,</A><br>
2038 <A NAME=3.1.14>And all-thing unbecoming.</A><br>
2041 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2043 <A NAME=3.1.15>To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,</A><br>
2044 <A NAME=3.1.16>And I'll request your presence.</A><br>
2047 <A NAME=speech5><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2049 <A NAME=3.1.17>Let your highness</A><br>
2050 <A NAME=3.1.18>Command upon me; to the which my duties</A><br>
2051 <A NAME=3.1.19>Are with a most indissoluble tie</A><br>
2052 <A NAME=3.1.20>For ever knit.</A><br>
2055 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2057 <A NAME=3.1.21> Ride you this afternoon?</A><br>
2060 <A NAME=speech7><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2062 <A NAME=3.1.22>Ay, my good lord.</A><br>
2065 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2067 <A NAME=3.1.23>We should have else desired your good advice,</A><br>
2068 <A NAME=3.1.24>Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,</A><br>
2069 <A NAME=3.1.25>In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow.</A><br>
2070 <A NAME=3.1.26>Is't far you ride?</A><br>
2073 <A NAME=speech9><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2075 <A NAME=3.1.27>As far, my lord, as will fill up the time</A><br>
2076 <A NAME=3.1.28>'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,</A><br>
2077 <A NAME=3.1.29>I must become a borrower of the night</A><br>
2078 <A NAME=3.1.30>For a dark hour or twain.</A><br>
2081 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2083 <A NAME=3.1.31>Fail not our feast.</A><br>
2086 <A NAME=speech11><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2088 <A NAME=3.1.32>My lord, I will not.</A><br>
2091 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2093 <A NAME=3.1.33>We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd</A><br>
2094 <A NAME=3.1.34>In England and in Ireland, not confessing</A><br>
2095 <A NAME=3.1.35>Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers</A><br>
2096 <A NAME=3.1.36>With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,</A><br>
2097 <A NAME=3.1.37>When therewithal we shall have cause of state</A><br>
2098 <A NAME=3.1.38>Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,</A><br>
2099 <A NAME=3.1.39>Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?</A><br>
2102 <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2104 <A NAME=3.1.40>Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.</A><br>
2107 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2109 <A NAME=3.1.41>I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;</A><br>
2110 <A NAME=3.1.42>And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.</A><br>
2111 <p><i>Exit BANQUO</i></p>
2112 <A NAME=3.1.43>Let every man be master of his time</A><br>
2113 <A NAME=3.1.44>Till seven at night: to make society</A><br>
2114 <A NAME=3.1.45>The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself</A><br>
2115 <A NAME=3.1.46>Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!</A><br>
2116 <p><i>Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant</i></p>
2117 <A NAME=3.1.47>Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men</A><br>
2118 <A NAME=3.1.48>Our pleasure?</A><br>
2121 <A NAME=speech15><b>ATTENDANT</b></a>
2123 <A NAME=3.1.49>They are, my lord, without the palace gate.</A><br>
2126 <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2128 <A NAME=3.1.50>Bring them before us.</A><br>
2129 <p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p>
2130 <A NAME=3.1.51>To be thus is nothing;</A><br>
2131 <A NAME=3.1.52>But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo</A><br>
2132 <A NAME=3.1.53>Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature</A><br>
2133 <A NAME=3.1.54>Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;</A><br>
2134 <A NAME=3.1.55>And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,</A><br>
2135 <A NAME=3.1.56>He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour</A><br>
2136 <A NAME=3.1.57>To act in safety. There is none but he</A><br>
2137 <A NAME=3.1.58>Whose being I do fear: and, under him,</A><br>
2138 <A NAME=3.1.59>My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,</A><br>
2139 <A NAME=3.1.60>Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters</A><br>
2140 <A NAME=3.1.61>When first they put the name of king upon me,</A><br>
2141 <A NAME=3.1.62>And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like</A><br>
2142 <A NAME=3.1.63>They hail'd him father to a line of kings:</A><br>
2143 <A NAME=3.1.64>Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,</A><br>
2144 <A NAME=3.1.65>And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,</A><br>
2145 <A NAME=3.1.66>Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,</A><br>
2146 <A NAME=3.1.67>No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,</A><br>
2147 <A NAME=3.1.68>For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;</A><br>
2148 <A NAME=3.1.69>For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;</A><br>
2149 <A NAME=3.1.70>Put rancours in the vessel of my peace</A><br>
2150 <A NAME=3.1.71>Only for them; and mine eternal jewel</A><br>
2151 <A NAME=3.1.72>Given to the common enemy of man,</A><br>
2152 <A NAME=3.1.73>To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!</A><br>
2153 <A NAME=3.1.74>Rather than so, come fate into the list.</A><br>
2154 <A NAME=3.1.75>And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!</A><br>
2155 <p><i>Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers</i></p>
2156 <A NAME=3.1.76>Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.</A><br>
2157 <p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p>
2158 <A NAME=3.1.77>Was it not yesterday we spoke together?</A><br>
2161 <A NAME=speech17><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2163 <A NAME=3.1.78>It was, so please your highness.</A><br>
2166 <A NAME=speech18><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2168 <A NAME=3.1.79>Well then, now</A><br>
2169 <A NAME=3.1.80>Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know</A><br>
2170 <A NAME=3.1.81>That it was he in the times past which held you</A><br>
2171 <A NAME=3.1.82>So under fortune, which you thought had been</A><br>
2172 <A NAME=3.1.83>Our innocent self: this I made good to you</A><br>
2173 <A NAME=3.1.84>In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,</A><br>
2174 <A NAME=3.1.85>How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,</A><br>
2175 <A NAME=3.1.86>the instruments,</A><br>
2176 <A NAME=3.1.87>Who wrought with them, and all things else that might</A><br>
2177 <A NAME=3.1.88>To half a soul and to a notion crazed</A><br>
2178 <A NAME=3.1.89>Say 'Thus did Banquo.'</A><br>
2181 <A NAME=speech19><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2183 <A NAME=3.1.90>You made it known to us.</A><br>
2186 <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2188 <A NAME=3.1.91>I did so, and went further, which is now</A><br>
2189 <A NAME=3.1.92>Our point of second meeting. Do you find</A><br>
2190 <A NAME=3.1.93>Your patience so predominant in your nature</A><br>
2191 <A NAME=3.1.94>That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd</A><br>
2192 <A NAME=3.1.95>To pray for this good man and for his issue,</A><br>
2193 <A NAME=3.1.96>Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave</A><br>
2194 <A NAME=3.1.97>And beggar'd yours for ever?</A><br>
2197 <A NAME=speech21><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2199 <A NAME=3.1.98>We are men, my liege.</A><br>
2202 <A NAME=speech22><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2204 <A NAME=3.1.99>Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;</A><br>
2205 <A NAME=3.1.100>As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,</A><br>
2206 <A NAME=3.1.101>Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept</A><br>
2207 <A NAME=3.1.102>All by the name of dogs: the valued file</A><br>
2208 <A NAME=3.1.103>Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,</A><br>
2209 <A NAME=3.1.104>The housekeeper, the hunter, every one</A><br>
2210 <A NAME=3.1.105>According to the gift which bounteous nature</A><br>
2211 <A NAME=3.1.106>Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive</A><br>
2212 <A NAME=3.1.107>Particular addition. from the bill</A><br>
2213 <A NAME=3.1.108>That writes them all alike: and so of men.</A><br>
2214 <A NAME=3.1.109>Now, if you have a station in the file,</A><br>
2215 <A NAME=3.1.110>Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;</A><br>
2216 <A NAME=3.1.111>And I will put that business in your bosoms,</A><br>
2217 <A NAME=3.1.112>Whose execution takes your enemy off,</A><br>
2218 <A NAME=3.1.113>Grapples you to the heart and love of us,</A><br>
2219 <A NAME=3.1.114>Who wear our health but sickly in his life,</A><br>
2220 <A NAME=3.1.115>Which in his death were perfect.</A><br>
2223 <A NAME=speech23><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2225 <A NAME=3.1.116>I am one, my liege,</A><br>
2226 <A NAME=3.1.117>Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world</A><br>
2227 <A NAME=3.1.118>Have so incensed that I am reckless what</A><br>
2228 <A NAME=3.1.119>I do to spite the world.</A><br>
2231 <A NAME=speech24><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2233 <A NAME=3.1.120>And I another</A><br>
2234 <A NAME=3.1.121>So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,</A><br>
2235 <A NAME=3.1.122>That I would set my lie on any chance,</A><br>
2236 <A NAME=3.1.123>To mend it, or be rid on't.</A><br>
2239 <A NAME=speech25><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2241 <A NAME=3.1.124>Both of you</A><br>
2242 <A NAME=3.1.125>Know Banquo was your enemy.</A><br>
2245 <A NAME=speech26><b>Both Murderers</b></a>
2247 <A NAME=3.1.126>True, my lord.</A><br>
2250 <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2252 <A NAME=3.1.127>So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,</A><br>
2253 <A NAME=3.1.128>That every minute of his being thrusts</A><br>
2254 <A NAME=3.1.129>Against my near'st of life: and though I could</A><br>
2255 <A NAME=3.1.130>With barefaced power sweep him from my sight</A><br>
2256 <A NAME=3.1.131>And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,</A><br>
2257 <A NAME=3.1.132>For certain friends that are both his and mine,</A><br>
2258 <A NAME=3.1.133>Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall</A><br>
2259 <A NAME=3.1.134>Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,</A><br>
2260 <A NAME=3.1.135>That I to your assistance do make love,</A><br>
2261 <A NAME=3.1.136>Masking the business from the common eye</A><br>
2262 <A NAME=3.1.137>For sundry weighty reasons.</A><br>
2265 <A NAME=speech28><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2267 <A NAME=3.1.138>We shall, my lord,</A><br>
2268 <A NAME=3.1.139>Perform what you command us.</A><br>
2271 <A NAME=speech29><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2273 <A NAME=3.1.140>Though our lives--</A><br>
2276 <A NAME=speech30><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2278 <A NAME=3.1.141>Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most</A><br>
2279 <A NAME=3.1.142>I will advise you where to plant yourselves;</A><br>
2280 <A NAME=3.1.143>Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,</A><br>
2281 <A NAME=3.1.144>The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,</A><br>
2282 <A NAME=3.1.145>And something from the palace; always thought</A><br>
2283 <A NAME=3.1.146>That I require a clearness: and with him--</A><br>
2284 <A NAME=3.1.147>To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--</A><br>
2285 <A NAME=3.1.148>Fleance his son, that keeps him company,</A><br>
2286 <A NAME=3.1.149>Whose absence is no less material to me</A><br>
2287 <A NAME=3.1.150>Than is his father's, must embrace the fate</A><br>
2288 <A NAME=3.1.151>Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:</A><br>
2289 <A NAME=3.1.152>I'll come to you anon.</A><br>
2292 <A NAME=speech31><b>Both Murderers</b></a>
2294 <A NAME=3.1.153>We are resolved, my lord.</A><br>
2297 <A NAME=speech32><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2299 <A NAME=3.1.154>I'll call upon you straight: abide within.</A><br>
2300 <p><i>Exeunt Murderers</i></p>
2301 <A NAME=3.1.155>It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,</A><br>
2302 <A NAME=3.1.156>If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.</A><br>
2305 <h3>SCENE II. The palace.</h3>
2307 <i>Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant</i>
2310 <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2312 <A NAME=3.2.1>Is Banquo gone from court?</A><br>
2315 <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
2317 <A NAME=3.2.2>Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.</A><br>
2320 <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2322 <A NAME=3.2.3>Say to the king, I would attend his leisure</A><br>
2323 <A NAME=3.2.4>For a few words.</A><br>
2326 <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
2328 <A NAME=3.2.5> Madam, I will.</A><br>
2332 <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2334 <A NAME=3.2.6>Nought's had, all's spent,</A><br>
2335 <A NAME=3.2.7>Where our desire is got without content:</A><br>
2336 <A NAME=3.2.8>'Tis safer to be that which we destroy</A><br>
2337 <A NAME=3.2.9>Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.</A><br>
2338 <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
2339 <A NAME=3.2.10>How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,</A><br>
2340 <A NAME=3.2.11>Of sorriest fancies your companions making,</A><br>
2341 <A NAME=3.2.12>Using those thoughts which should indeed have died</A><br>
2342 <A NAME=3.2.13>With them they think on? Things without all remedy</A><br>
2343 <A NAME=3.2.14>Should be without regard: what's done is done.</A><br>
2346 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2348 <A NAME=3.2.15>We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:</A><br>
2349 <A NAME=3.2.16>She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice</A><br>
2350 <A NAME=3.2.17>Remains in danger of her former tooth.</A><br>
2351 <A NAME=3.2.18>But let the frame of things disjoint, both the</A><br>
2352 <A NAME=3.2.19>worlds suffer,</A><br>
2353 <A NAME=3.2.20>Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep</A><br>
2354 <A NAME=3.2.21>In the affliction of these terrible dreams</A><br>
2355 <A NAME=3.2.22>That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,</A><br>
2356 <A NAME=3.2.23>Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,</A><br>
2357 <A NAME=3.2.24>Than on the torture of the mind to lie</A><br>
2358 <A NAME=3.2.25>In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;</A><br>
2359 <A NAME=3.2.26>After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;</A><br>
2360 <A NAME=3.2.27>Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,</A><br>
2361 <A NAME=3.2.28>Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,</A><br>
2362 <A NAME=3.2.29>Can touch him further.</A><br>
2365 <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2367 <A NAME=3.2.30>Come on;</A><br>
2368 <A NAME=3.2.31>Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;</A><br>
2369 <A NAME=3.2.32>Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.</A><br>
2372 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2374 <A NAME=3.2.33>So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:</A><br>
2375 <A NAME=3.2.34>Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;</A><br>
2376 <A NAME=3.2.35>Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:</A><br>
2377 <A NAME=3.2.36>Unsafe the while, that we</A><br>
2378 <A NAME=3.2.37>Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,</A><br>
2379 <A NAME=3.2.38>And make our faces vizards to our hearts,</A><br>
2380 <A NAME=3.2.39>Disguising what they are.</A><br>
2383 <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2385 <A NAME=3.2.40>You must leave this.</A><br>
2388 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2390 <A NAME=3.2.41>O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!</A><br>
2391 <A NAME=3.2.42>Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.</A><br>
2394 <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2396 <A NAME=3.2.43>But in them nature's copy's not eterne.</A><br>
2399 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2401 <A NAME=3.2.44>There's comfort yet; they are assailable;</A><br>
2402 <A NAME=3.2.45>Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown</A><br>
2403 <A NAME=3.2.46>His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons</A><br>
2404 <A NAME=3.2.47>The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums</A><br>
2405 <A NAME=3.2.48>Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done</A><br>
2406 <A NAME=3.2.49>A deed of dreadful note.</A><br>
2409 <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2411 <A NAME=3.2.50>What's to be done?</A><br>
2414 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2416 <A NAME=3.2.51>Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,</A><br>
2417 <A NAME=3.2.52>Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,</A><br>
2418 <A NAME=3.2.53>Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;</A><br>
2419 <A NAME=3.2.54>And with thy bloody and invisible hand</A><br>
2420 <A NAME=3.2.55>Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond</A><br>
2421 <A NAME=3.2.56>Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow</A><br>
2422 <A NAME=3.2.57>Makes wing to the rooky wood:</A><br>
2423 <A NAME=3.2.58>Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;</A><br>
2424 <A NAME=3.2.59>While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.</A><br>
2425 <A NAME=3.2.60>Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;</A><br>
2426 <A NAME=3.2.61>Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.</A><br>
2427 <A NAME=3.2.62>So, prithee, go with me.</A><br>
2428 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2430 <h3>SCENE III. A park near the palace.</h3>
2432 <i>Enter three Murderers</i>
2435 <A NAME=speech1><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2437 <A NAME=3.3.1>But who did bid thee join with us?</A><br>
2440 <A NAME=speech2><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2442 <A NAME=3.3.2>Macbeth.</A><br>
2445 <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2447 <A NAME=3.3.3>He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers</A><br>
2448 <A NAME=3.3.4>Our offices and what we have to do</A><br>
2449 <A NAME=3.3.5>To the direction just.</A><br>
2452 <A NAME=speech4><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2454 <A NAME=3.3.6>Then stand with us.</A><br>
2455 <A NAME=3.3.7>The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:</A><br>
2456 <A NAME=3.3.8>Now spurs the lated traveller apace</A><br>
2457 <A NAME=3.3.9>To gain the timely inn; and near approaches</A><br>
2458 <A NAME=3.3.10>The subject of our watch.</A><br>
2461 <A NAME=speech5><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2463 <A NAME=3.3.11>Hark! I hear horses.</A><br>
2466 <A NAME=speech6><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2468 <A NAME=3.3.12>[Within] Give us a light there, ho!</A><br>
2471 <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2473 <A NAME=3.3.13>Then 'tis he: the rest</A><br>
2474 <A NAME=3.3.14>That are within the note of expectation</A><br>
2475 <A NAME=3.3.15>Already are i' the court.</A><br>
2478 <A NAME=speech8><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2480 <A NAME=3.3.16>His horses go about.</A><br>
2483 <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2485 <A NAME=3.3.17>Almost a mile: but he does usually,</A><br>
2486 <A NAME=3.3.18>So all men do, from hence to the palace gate</A><br>
2487 <A NAME=3.3.19>Make it their walk.</A><br>
2490 <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2492 <A NAME=3.3.20>A light, a light!</A><br>
2493 <p><i>Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch</i></p>
2496 <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2498 <A NAME=3.3.21>'Tis he.</A><br>
2501 <A NAME=speech12><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2503 <A NAME=3.3.22>Stand to't.</A><br>
2506 <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2508 <A NAME=3.3.23>It will be rain to-night.</A><br>
2511 <A NAME=speech14><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2513 <A NAME=3.3.24>Let it come down.</A><br>
2514 <p><i>They set upon BANQUO</i></p>
2517 <A NAME=speech15><b>BANQUO</b></a>
2519 <A NAME=3.3.25>O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!</A><br>
2520 <A NAME=3.3.26>Thou mayst revenge. O slave!</A><br>
2521 <p><i>Dies. FLEANCE escapes</i></p>
2524 <A NAME=speech16><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2526 <A NAME=3.3.27>Who did strike out the light?</A><br>
2529 <A NAME=speech17><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2531 <A NAME=3.3.28>Wast not the way?</A><br>
2534 <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
2536 <A NAME=3.3.29>There's but one down; the son is fled.</A><br>
2539 <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
2541 <A NAME=3.3.30>We have lost</A><br>
2542 <A NAME=3.3.31>Best half of our affair.</A><br>
2545 <A NAME=speech20><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2547 <A NAME=3.3.32>Well, let's away, and say how much is done.</A><br>
2548 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2550 <h3>SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.</h3>
2552 <i>A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants</i>
2555 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2557 <A NAME=3.4.1>You know your own degrees; sit down: at first</A><br>
2558 <A NAME=3.4.2>And last the hearty welcome.</A><br>
2561 <A NAME=speech2><b>Lords</b></a>
2563 <A NAME=3.4.3>Thanks to your majesty.</A><br>
2566 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2568 <A NAME=3.4.4>Ourself will mingle with society,</A><br>
2569 <A NAME=3.4.5>And play the humble host.</A><br>
2570 <A NAME=3.4.6>Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time</A><br>
2571 <A NAME=3.4.7>We will require her welcome.</A><br>
2574 <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2576 <A NAME=3.4.8>Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;</A><br>
2577 <A NAME=3.4.9>For my heart speaks they are welcome.</A><br>
2578 <p><i>First Murderer appears at the door</i></p>
2581 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2583 <A NAME=3.4.10>See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.</A><br>
2584 <A NAME=3.4.11>Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:</A><br>
2585 <A NAME=3.4.12>Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure</A><br>
2586 <A NAME=3.4.13>The table round.</A><br>
2587 <p><i>Approaching the door</i></p>
2588 <A NAME=3.4.14>There's blood on thy face.</A><br>
2591 <A NAME=speech6><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2593 <A NAME=3.4.15>'Tis Banquo's then.</A><br>
2596 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2598 <A NAME=3.4.16>'Tis better thee without than he within.</A><br>
2599 <A NAME=3.4.17>Is he dispatch'd?</A><br>
2602 <A NAME=speech8><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2604 <A NAME=3.4.18>My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.</A><br>
2607 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2609 <A NAME=3.4.19>Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good</A><br>
2610 <A NAME=3.4.20>That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,</A><br>
2611 <A NAME=3.4.21>Thou art the nonpareil.</A><br>
2614 <A NAME=speech10><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2616 <A NAME=3.4.22>Most royal sir,</A><br>
2617 <A NAME=3.4.23>Fleance is 'scaped.</A><br>
2620 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2622 <A NAME=3.4.24>Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,</A><br>
2623 <A NAME=3.4.25>Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,</A><br>
2624 <A NAME=3.4.26>As broad and general as the casing air:</A><br>
2625 <A NAME=3.4.27>But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in</A><br>
2626 <A NAME=3.4.28>To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?</A><br>
2629 <A NAME=speech12><b>First Murderer</b></a>
2631 <A NAME=3.4.29>Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,</A><br>
2632 <A NAME=3.4.30>With twenty trenched gashes on his head;</A><br>
2633 <A NAME=3.4.31>The least a death to nature.</A><br>
2636 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2638 <A NAME=3.4.32>Thanks for that:</A><br>
2639 <A NAME=3.4.33>There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled</A><br>
2640 <A NAME=3.4.34>Hath nature that in time will venom breed,</A><br>
2641 <A NAME=3.4.35>No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow</A><br>
2642 <A NAME=3.4.36>We'll hear, ourselves, again.</A><br>
2643 <p><i>Exit Murderer</i></p>
2646 <A NAME=speech14><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2648 <A NAME=3.4.37>My royal lord,</A><br>
2649 <A NAME=3.4.38>You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold</A><br>
2650 <A NAME=3.4.39>That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,</A><br>
2651 <A NAME=3.4.40>'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;</A><br>
2652 <A NAME=3.4.41>From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;</A><br>
2653 <A NAME=3.4.42>Meeting were bare without it.</A><br>
2656 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2658 <A NAME=3.4.43>Sweet remembrancer!</A><br>
2659 <A NAME=3.4.44>Now, good digestion wait on appetite,</A><br>
2660 <A NAME=3.4.45>And health on both!</A><br>
2663 <A NAME=speech16><b>LENNOX</b></a>
2665 <A NAME=3.4.46>May't please your highness sit.</A><br>
2666 <p><i>The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place</i></p>
2669 <A NAME=speech17><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2671 <A NAME=3.4.47>Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,</A><br>
2672 <A NAME=3.4.48>Were the graced person of our Banquo present;</A><br>
2673 <A NAME=3.4.49>Who may I rather challenge for unkindness</A><br>
2674 <A NAME=3.4.50>Than pity for mischance!</A><br>
2677 <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSS</b></a>
2679 <A NAME=3.4.51>His absence, sir,</A><br>
2680 <A NAME=3.4.52>Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness</A><br>
2681 <A NAME=3.4.53>To grace us with your royal company.</A><br>
2684 <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2686 <A NAME=3.4.54>The table's full.</A><br>
2689 <A NAME=speech20><b>LENNOX</b></a>
2691 <A NAME=3.4.55> Here is a place reserved, sir.</A><br>
2694 <A NAME=speech21><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2696 <A NAME=3.4.56>Where?</A><br>
2699 <A NAME=speech22><b>LENNOX</b></a>
2701 <A NAME=3.4.57>Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?</A><br>
2704 <A NAME=speech23><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2706 <A NAME=3.4.58>Which of you have done this?</A><br>
2709 <A NAME=speech24><b>Lords</b></a>
2711 <A NAME=3.4.59>What, my good lord?</A><br>
2714 <A NAME=speech25><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2716 <A NAME=3.4.60>Thou canst not say I did it: never shake</A><br>
2717 <A NAME=3.4.61>Thy gory locks at me.</A><br>
2720 <A NAME=speech26><b>ROSS</b></a>
2722 <A NAME=3.4.62>Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.</A><br>
2725 <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2727 <A NAME=3.4.63>Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,</A><br>
2728 <A NAME=3.4.64>And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;</A><br>
2729 <A NAME=3.4.65>The fit is momentary; upon a thought</A><br>
2730 <A NAME=3.4.66>He will again be well: if much you note him,</A><br>
2731 <A NAME=3.4.67>You shall offend him and extend his passion:</A><br>
2732 <A NAME=3.4.68>Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?</A><br>
2735 <A NAME=speech28><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2737 <A NAME=3.4.69>Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that</A><br>
2738 <A NAME=3.4.70>Which might appal the devil.</A><br>
2741 <A NAME=speech29><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2743 <A NAME=3.4.71>O proper stuff!</A><br>
2744 <A NAME=3.4.72>This is the very painting of your fear:</A><br>
2745 <A NAME=3.4.73>This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,</A><br>
2746 <A NAME=3.4.74>Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,</A><br>
2747 <A NAME=3.4.75>Impostors to true fear, would well become</A><br>
2748 <A NAME=3.4.76>A woman's story at a winter's fire,</A><br>
2749 <A NAME=3.4.77>Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!</A><br>
2750 <A NAME=3.4.78>Why do you make such faces? When all's done,</A><br>
2751 <A NAME=3.4.79>You look but on a stool.</A><br>
2754 <A NAME=speech30><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2756 <A NAME=3.4.80>Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!</A><br>
2757 <A NAME=3.4.81>how say you?</A><br>
2758 <A NAME=3.4.82>Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.</A><br>
2759 <A NAME=3.4.83>If charnel-houses and our graves must send</A><br>
2760 <A NAME=3.4.84>Those that we bury back, our monuments</A><br>
2761 <A NAME=3.4.85>Shall be the maws of kites.</A><br>
2762 <p><i>GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</i></p>
2765 <A NAME=speech31><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2767 <A NAME=3.4.86>What, quite unmann'd in folly?</A><br>
2770 <A NAME=speech32><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2772 <A NAME=3.4.87>If I stand here, I saw him.</A><br>
2775 <A NAME=speech33><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2777 <A NAME=3.4.88>Fie, for shame!</A><br>
2780 <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2782 <A NAME=3.4.89>Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,</A><br>
2783 <A NAME=3.4.90>Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;</A><br>
2784 <A NAME=3.4.91>Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd</A><br>
2785 <A NAME=3.4.92>Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,</A><br>
2786 <A NAME=3.4.93>That, when the brains were out, the man would die,</A><br>
2787 <A NAME=3.4.94>And there an end; but now they rise again,</A><br>
2788 <A NAME=3.4.95>With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,</A><br>
2789 <A NAME=3.4.96>And push us from our stools: this is more strange</A><br>
2790 <A NAME=3.4.97>Than such a murder is.</A><br>
2793 <A NAME=speech35><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2795 <A NAME=3.4.98>My worthy lord,</A><br>
2796 <A NAME=3.4.99>Your noble friends do lack you.</A><br>
2799 <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2801 <A NAME=3.4.100>I do forget.</A><br>
2802 <A NAME=3.4.101>Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,</A><br>
2803 <A NAME=3.4.102>I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing</A><br>
2804 <A NAME=3.4.103>To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;</A><br>
2805 <A NAME=3.4.104>Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.</A><br>
2806 <A NAME=3.4.105>I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,</A><br>
2807 <A NAME=3.4.106>And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;</A><br>
2808 <A NAME=3.4.107>Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,</A><br>
2809 <A NAME=3.4.108>And all to all.</A><br>
2812 <A NAME=speech37><b>Lords</b></a>
2814 <A NAME=3.4.109> Our duties, and the pledge.</A><br>
2815 <p><i>Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO</i></p>
2818 <A NAME=speech38><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2820 <A NAME=3.4.110>Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!</A><br>
2821 <A NAME=3.4.111>Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;</A><br>
2822 <A NAME=3.4.112>Thou hast no speculation in those eyes</A><br>
2823 <A NAME=3.4.113>Which thou dost glare with!</A><br>
2826 <A NAME=speech39><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2828 <A NAME=3.4.114>Think of this, good peers,</A><br>
2829 <A NAME=3.4.115>But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;</A><br>
2830 <A NAME=3.4.116>Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.</A><br>
2833 <A NAME=speech40><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2835 <A NAME=3.4.117>What man dare, I dare:</A><br>
2836 <A NAME=3.4.118>Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,</A><br>
2837 <A NAME=3.4.119>The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;</A><br>
2838 <A NAME=3.4.120>Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves</A><br>
2839 <A NAME=3.4.121>Shall never tremble: or be alive again,</A><br>
2840 <A NAME=3.4.122>And dare me to the desert with thy sword;</A><br>
2841 <A NAME=3.4.123>If trembling I inhabit then, protest me</A><br>
2842 <A NAME=3.4.124>The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!</A><br>
2843 <A NAME=3.4.125>Unreal mockery, hence!</A><br>
2844 <p><i>GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</i></p>
2845 <A NAME=3.4.126>Why, so: being gone,</A><br>
2846 <A NAME=3.4.127>I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.</A><br>
2849 <A NAME=speech41><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2851 <A NAME=3.4.128>You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,</A><br>
2852 <A NAME=3.4.129>With most admired disorder.</A><br>
2855 <A NAME=speech42><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2857 <A NAME=3.4.130>Can such things be,</A><br>
2858 <A NAME=3.4.131>And overcome us like a summer's cloud,</A><br>
2859 <A NAME=3.4.132>Without our special wonder? You make me strange</A><br>
2860 <A NAME=3.4.133>Even to the disposition that I owe,</A><br>
2861 <A NAME=3.4.134>When now I think you can behold such sights,</A><br>
2862 <A NAME=3.4.135>And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,</A><br>
2863 <A NAME=3.4.136>When mine is blanched with fear.</A><br>
2866 <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSS</b></a>
2868 <A NAME=3.4.137>What sights, my lord?</A><br>
2871 <A NAME=speech44><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2873 <A NAME=3.4.138>I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;</A><br>
2874 <A NAME=3.4.139>Question enrages him. At once, good night:</A><br>
2875 <A NAME=3.4.140>Stand not upon the order of your going,</A><br>
2876 <A NAME=3.4.141>But go at once.</A><br>
2879 <A NAME=speech45><b>LENNOX</b></a>
2881 <A NAME=3.4.142> Good night; and better health</A><br>
2882 <A NAME=3.4.143>Attend his majesty!</A><br>
2885 <A NAME=speech46><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2887 <A NAME=3.4.144>A kind good night to all!</A><br>
2888 <p><i>Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH</i></p>
2891 <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2893 <A NAME=3.4.145>It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:</A><br>
2894 <A NAME=3.4.146>Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;</A><br>
2895 <A NAME=3.4.147>Augurs and understood relations have</A><br>
2896 <A NAME=3.4.148>By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth</A><br>
2897 <A NAME=3.4.149>The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?</A><br>
2900 <A NAME=speech48><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2902 <A NAME=3.4.150>Almost at odds with morning, which is which.</A><br>
2905 <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2907 <A NAME=3.4.151>How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person</A><br>
2908 <A NAME=3.4.152>At our great bidding?</A><br>
2911 <A NAME=speech50><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2913 <A NAME=3.4.153>Did you send to him, sir?</A><br>
2916 <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2918 <A NAME=3.4.154>I hear it by the way; but I will send:</A><br>
2919 <A NAME=3.4.155>There's not a one of them but in his house</A><br>
2920 <A NAME=3.4.156>I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,</A><br>
2921 <A NAME=3.4.157>And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:</A><br>
2922 <A NAME=3.4.158>More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,</A><br>
2923 <A NAME=3.4.159>By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,</A><br>
2924 <A NAME=3.4.160>All causes shall give way: I am in blood</A><br>
2925 <A NAME=3.4.161>Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,</A><br>
2926 <A NAME=3.4.162>Returning were as tedious as go o'er:</A><br>
2927 <A NAME=3.4.163>Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;</A><br>
2928 <A NAME=3.4.164>Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.</A><br>
2931 <A NAME=speech52><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
2933 <A NAME=3.4.165>You lack the season of all natures, sleep.</A><br>
2936 <A NAME=speech53><b>MACBETH</b></a>
2938 <A NAME=3.4.166>Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse</A><br>
2939 <A NAME=3.4.167>Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:</A><br>
2940 <A NAME=3.4.168>We are yet but young in deed.</A><br>
2941 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2943 <h3>SCENE V. A Heath.</h3>
2945 <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE</i>
2948 <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
2950 <A NAME=3.5.1>Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.</A><br>
2953 <A NAME=speech2><b>HECATE</b></a>
2955 <A NAME=3.5.2>Have I not reason, beldams as you are,</A><br>
2956 <A NAME=3.5.3>Saucy and overbold? How did you dare</A><br>
2957 <A NAME=3.5.4>To trade and traffic with Macbeth</A><br>
2958 <A NAME=3.5.5>In riddles and affairs of death;</A><br>
2959 <A NAME=3.5.6>And I, the mistress of your charms,</A><br>
2960 <A NAME=3.5.7>The close contriver of all harms,</A><br>
2961 <A NAME=3.5.8>Was never call'd to bear my part,</A><br>
2962 <A NAME=3.5.9>Or show the glory of our art?</A><br>
2963 <A NAME=3.5.10>And, which is worse, all you have done</A><br>
2964 <A NAME=3.5.11>Hath been but for a wayward son,</A><br>
2965 <A NAME=3.5.12>Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,</A><br>
2966 <A NAME=3.5.13>Loves for his own ends, not for you.</A><br>
2967 <A NAME=3.5.14>But make amends now: get you gone,</A><br>
2968 <A NAME=3.5.15>And at the pit of Acheron</A><br>
2969 <A NAME=3.5.16>Meet me i' the morning: thither he</A><br>
2970 <A NAME=3.5.17>Will come to know his destiny:</A><br>
2971 <A NAME=3.5.18>Your vessels and your spells provide,</A><br>
2972 <A NAME=3.5.19>Your charms and every thing beside.</A><br>
2973 <A NAME=3.5.20>I am for the air; this night I'll spend</A><br>
2974 <A NAME=3.5.21>Unto a dismal and a fatal end:</A><br>
2975 <A NAME=3.5.22>Great business must be wrought ere noon:</A><br>
2976 <A NAME=3.5.23>Upon the corner of the moon</A><br>
2977 <A NAME=3.5.24>There hangs a vaporous drop profound;</A><br>
2978 <A NAME=3.5.25>I'll catch it ere it come to ground:</A><br>
2979 <A NAME=3.5.26>And that distill'd by magic sleights</A><br>
2980 <A NAME=3.5.27>Shall raise such artificial sprites</A><br>
2981 <A NAME=3.5.28>As by the strength of their illusion</A><br>
2982 <A NAME=3.5.29>Shall draw him on to his confusion:</A><br>
2983 <A NAME=3.5.30>He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear</A><br>
2984 <A NAME=3.5.31>He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:</A><br>
2985 <A NAME=3.5.32>And you all know, security</A><br>
2986 <A NAME=3.5.33>Is mortals' chiefest enemy.</A><br>
2987 <p><i>Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' & c</i></p>
2988 <A NAME=3.5.34>Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,</A><br>
2989 <A NAME=3.5.35>Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.</A><br>
2993 <A NAME=speech3><b>First Witch</b></a>
2995 <A NAME=3.5.36>Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.</A><br>
2996 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2998 <h3>SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.</h3>
3000 <i>Enter LENNOX and another Lord</i>
3003 <A NAME=speech1><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3005 <A NAME=3.6.1>My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,</A><br>
3006 <A NAME=3.6.2>Which can interpret further: only, I say,</A><br>
3007 <A NAME=3.6.3>Things have been strangely borne. The</A><br>
3008 <A NAME=3.6.4>gracious Duncan</A><br>
3009 <A NAME=3.6.5>Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:</A><br>
3010 <A NAME=3.6.6>And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;</A><br>
3011 <A NAME=3.6.7>Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,</A><br>
3012 <A NAME=3.6.8>For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.</A><br>
3013 <A NAME=3.6.9>Who cannot want the thought how monstrous</A><br>
3014 <A NAME=3.6.10>It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain</A><br>
3015 <A NAME=3.6.11>To kill their gracious father? damned fact!</A><br>
3016 <A NAME=3.6.12>How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight</A><br>
3017 <A NAME=3.6.13>In pious rage the two delinquents tear,</A><br>
3018 <A NAME=3.6.14>That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?</A><br>
3019 <A NAME=3.6.15>Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;</A><br>
3020 <A NAME=3.6.16>For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive</A><br>
3021 <A NAME=3.6.17>To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,</A><br>
3022 <A NAME=3.6.18>He has borne all things well: and I do think</A><br>
3023 <A NAME=3.6.19>That had he Duncan's sons under his key--</A><br>
3024 <A NAME=3.6.20>As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they</A><br>
3025 <A NAME=3.6.21>should find</A><br>
3026 <A NAME=3.6.22>What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.</A><br>
3027 <A NAME=3.6.23>But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd</A><br>
3028 <A NAME=3.6.24>His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear</A><br>
3029 <A NAME=3.6.25>Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell</A><br>
3030 <A NAME=3.6.26>Where he bestows himself?</A><br>
3033 <A NAME=speech2><b>Lord</b></a>
3035 <A NAME=3.6.27>The son of Duncan,</A><br>
3036 <A NAME=3.6.28>From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth</A><br>
3037 <A NAME=3.6.29>Lives in the English court, and is received</A><br>
3038 <A NAME=3.6.30>Of the most pious Edward with such grace</A><br>
3039 <A NAME=3.6.31>That the malevolence of fortune nothing</A><br>
3040 <A NAME=3.6.32>Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff</A><br>
3041 <A NAME=3.6.33>Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid</A><br>
3042 <A NAME=3.6.34>To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:</A><br>
3043 <A NAME=3.6.35>That, by the help of these--with Him above</A><br>
3044 <A NAME=3.6.36>To ratify the work--we may again</A><br>
3045 <A NAME=3.6.37>Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,</A><br>
3046 <A NAME=3.6.38>Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,</A><br>
3047 <A NAME=3.6.39>Do faithful homage and receive free honours:</A><br>
3048 <A NAME=3.6.40>All which we pine for now: and this report</A><br>
3049 <A NAME=3.6.41>Hath so exasperate the king that he</A><br>
3050 <A NAME=3.6.42>Prepares for some attempt of war.</A><br>
3053 <A NAME=speech3><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3055 <A NAME=3.6.43>Sent he to Macduff?</A><br>
3058 <A NAME=speech4><b>Lord</b></a>
3060 <A NAME=3.6.44>He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'</A><br>
3061 <A NAME=3.6.45>The cloudy messenger turns me his back,</A><br>
3062 <A NAME=3.6.46>And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time</A><br>
3063 <A NAME=3.6.47>That clogs me with this answer.'</A><br>
3066 <A NAME=speech5><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3068 <A NAME=3.6.48>And that well might</A><br>
3069 <A NAME=3.6.49>Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance</A><br>
3070 <A NAME=3.6.50>His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel</A><br>
3071 <A NAME=3.6.51>Fly to the court of England and unfold</A><br>
3072 <A NAME=3.6.52>His message ere he come, that a swift blessing</A><br>
3073 <A NAME=3.6.53>May soon return to this our suffering country</A><br>
3074 <A NAME=3.6.54>Under a hand accursed!</A><br>
3077 <A NAME=speech6><b>Lord</b></a>
3079 <A NAME=3.6.55>I'll send my prayers with him.</A><br>
3080 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3083 <h3>SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.</h3>
3085 <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches</i>
3088 <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
3090 <A NAME=4.1.1>Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.</A><br>
3093 <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3095 <A NAME=4.1.2>Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.</A><br>
3098 <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
3100 <A NAME=4.1.3>Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.</A><br>
3103 <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
3105 <A NAME=4.1.4>Round about the cauldron go;</A><br>
3106 <A NAME=4.1.5>In the poison'd entrails throw.</A><br>
3107 <A NAME=4.1.6>Toad, that under cold stone</A><br>
3108 <A NAME=4.1.7>Days and nights has thirty-one</A><br>
3109 <A NAME=4.1.8>Swelter'd venom sleeping got,</A><br>
3110 <A NAME=4.1.9>Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.</A><br>
3113 <A NAME=speech5><b>ALL</b></a>
3115 <A NAME=4.1.10>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
3116 <A NAME=4.1.11>Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
3119 <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3121 <A NAME=4.1.12>Fillet of a fenny snake,</A><br>
3122 <A NAME=4.1.13>In the cauldron boil and bake;</A><br>
3123 <A NAME=4.1.14>Eye of newt and toe of frog,</A><br>
3124 <A NAME=4.1.15>Wool of bat and tongue of dog,</A><br>
3125 <A NAME=4.1.16>Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,</A><br>
3126 <A NAME=4.1.17>Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,</A><br>
3127 <A NAME=4.1.18>For a charm of powerful trouble,</A><br>
3128 <A NAME=4.1.19>Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.</A><br>
3131 <A NAME=speech7><b>ALL</b></a>
3133 <A NAME=4.1.20>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
3134 <A NAME=4.1.21>Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
3137 <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Witch</b></a>
3139 <A NAME=4.1.22>Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,</A><br>
3140 <A NAME=4.1.23>Witches' mummy, maw and gulf</A><br>
3141 <A NAME=4.1.24>Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,</A><br>
3142 <A NAME=4.1.25>Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,</A><br>
3143 <A NAME=4.1.26>Liver of blaspheming Jew,</A><br>
3144 <A NAME=4.1.27>Gall of goat, and slips of yew</A><br>
3145 <A NAME=4.1.28>Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,</A><br>
3146 <A NAME=4.1.29>Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,</A><br>
3147 <A NAME=4.1.30>Finger of birth-strangled babe</A><br>
3148 <A NAME=4.1.31>Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,</A><br>
3149 <A NAME=4.1.32>Make the gruel thick and slab:</A><br>
3150 <A NAME=4.1.33>Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,</A><br>
3151 <A NAME=4.1.34>For the ingredients of our cauldron.</A><br>
3154 <A NAME=speech9><b>ALL</b></a>
3156 <A NAME=4.1.35>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
3157 <A NAME=4.1.36>Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
3160 <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3162 <A NAME=4.1.37>Cool it with a baboon's blood,</A><br>
3163 <A NAME=4.1.38>Then the charm is firm and good.</A><br>
3164 <p><i>Enter HECATE to the other three Witches</i></p>
3167 <A NAME=speech11><b>HECATE</b></a>
3169 <A NAME=4.1.39>O well done! I commend your pains;</A><br>
3170 <A NAME=4.1.40>And every one shall share i' the gains;</A><br>
3171 <A NAME=4.1.41>And now about the cauldron sing,</A><br>
3172 <A NAME=4.1.42>Live elves and fairies in a ring,</A><br>
3173 <A NAME=4.1.43>Enchanting all that you put in.</A><br>
3174 <p><i>Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c</i></p>
3175 <p><i>HECATE retires</i></p>
3178 <A NAME=speech12><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3180 <A NAME=4.1.44>By the pricking of my thumbs,</A><br>
3181 <A NAME=4.1.45>Something wicked this way comes.</A><br>
3182 <A NAME=4.1.46>Open, locks,</A><br>
3183 <A NAME=4.1.47>Whoever knocks!</A><br>
3184 <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
3187 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3189 <A NAME=4.1.48>How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!</A><br>
3190 <A NAME=4.1.49>What is't you do?</A><br>
3193 <A NAME=speech14><b>ALL</b></a>
3195 <A NAME=4.1.50> A deed without a name.</A><br>
3198 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3200 <A NAME=4.1.51>I conjure you, by that which you profess,</A><br>
3201 <A NAME=4.1.52>Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:</A><br>
3202 <A NAME=4.1.53>Though you untie the winds and let them fight</A><br>
3203 <A NAME=4.1.54>Against the churches; though the yesty waves</A><br>
3204 <A NAME=4.1.55>Confound and swallow navigation up;</A><br>
3205 <A NAME=4.1.56>Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;</A><br>
3206 <A NAME=4.1.57>Though castles topple on their warders' heads;</A><br>
3207 <A NAME=4.1.58>Though palaces and pyramids do slope</A><br>
3208 <A NAME=4.1.59>Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure</A><br>
3209 <A NAME=4.1.60>Of nature's germens tumble all together,</A><br>
3210 <A NAME=4.1.61>Even till destruction sicken; answer me</A><br>
3211 <A NAME=4.1.62>To what I ask you.</A><br>
3214 <A NAME=speech16><b>First Witch</b></a>
3216 <A NAME=4.1.63> Speak.</A><br>
3219 <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3221 <A NAME=4.1.64>Demand.</A><br>
3224 <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Witch</b></a>
3226 <A NAME=4.1.65>We'll answer.</A><br>
3229 <A NAME=speech19><b>First Witch</b></a>
3231 <A NAME=4.1.66>Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,</A><br>
3232 <A NAME=4.1.67>Or from our masters?</A><br>
3235 <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3237 <A NAME=4.1.68>Call 'em; let me see 'em.</A><br>
3240 <A NAME=speech21><b>First Witch</b></a>
3242 <A NAME=4.1.69>Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten</A><br>
3243 <A NAME=4.1.70>Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten</A><br>
3244 <A NAME=4.1.71>From the murderer's gibbet throw</A><br>
3245 <A NAME=4.1.72>Into the flame.</A><br>
3248 <A NAME=speech22><b>ALL</b></a>
3250 <A NAME=4.1.73> Come, high or low;</A><br>
3251 <A NAME=4.1.74>Thyself and office deftly show!</A><br>
3252 <p><i>Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head</i></p>
3255 <A NAME=speech23><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3257 <A NAME=4.1.75>Tell me, thou unknown power,--</A><br>
3260 <A NAME=speech24><b>First Witch</b></a>
3262 <A NAME=4.1.76>He knows thy thought:</A><br>
3263 <A NAME=4.1.77>Hear his speech, but say thou nought.</A><br>
3266 <A NAME=speech25><b>First Apparition</b></a>
3268 <A NAME=4.1.78>Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;</A><br>
3269 <A NAME=4.1.79>Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.</A><br>
3270 <p><i>Descends</i></p>
3273 <A NAME=speech26><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3275 <A NAME=4.1.80>Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;</A><br>
3276 <A NAME=4.1.81>Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one</A><br>
3277 <A NAME=4.1.82>word more,--</A><br>
3280 <A NAME=speech27><b>First Witch</b></a>
3282 <A NAME=4.1.83>He will not be commanded: here's another,</A><br>
3283 <A NAME=4.1.84>More potent than the first.</A><br>
3284 <p><i>Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child</i></p>
3287 <A NAME=speech28><b>Second Apparition</b></a>
3289 <A NAME=4.1.85>Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!</A><br>
3292 <A NAME=speech29><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3294 <A NAME=4.1.86>Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.</A><br>
3297 <A NAME=speech30><b>Second Apparition</b></a>
3299 <A NAME=4.1.87>Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn</A><br>
3300 <A NAME=4.1.88>The power of man, for none of woman born</A><br>
3301 <A NAME=4.1.89>Shall harm Macbeth.</A><br>
3302 <p><i>Descends</i></p>
3305 <A NAME=speech31><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3307 <A NAME=4.1.90>Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?</A><br>
3308 <A NAME=4.1.91>But yet I'll make assurance double sure,</A><br>
3309 <A NAME=4.1.92>And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;</A><br>
3310 <A NAME=4.1.93>That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,</A><br>
3311 <A NAME=4.1.94>And sleep in spite of thunder.</A><br>
3312 <p><i>Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand</i></p>
3313 <A NAME=4.1.95>What is this</A><br>
3314 <A NAME=4.1.96>That rises like the issue of a king,</A><br>
3315 <A NAME=4.1.97>And wears upon his baby-brow the round</A><br>
3316 <A NAME=4.1.98>And top of sovereignty?</A><br>
3319 <A NAME=speech32><b>ALL</b></a>
3321 <A NAME=4.1.99>Listen, but speak not to't.</A><br>
3324 <A NAME=speech33><b>Third Apparition</b></a>
3326 <A NAME=4.1.100>Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care</A><br>
3327 <A NAME=4.1.101>Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:</A><br>
3328 <A NAME=4.1.102>Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until</A><br>
3329 <A NAME=4.1.103>Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill</A><br>
3330 <A NAME=4.1.104>Shall come against him.</A><br>
3331 <p><i>Descends</i></p>
3334 <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3336 <A NAME=4.1.105>That will never be</A><br>
3337 <A NAME=4.1.106>Who can impress the forest, bid the tree</A><br>
3338 <A NAME=4.1.107>Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!</A><br>
3339 <A NAME=4.1.108>Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood</A><br>
3340 <A NAME=4.1.109>Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth</A><br>
3341 <A NAME=4.1.110>Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath</A><br>
3342 <A NAME=4.1.111>To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart</A><br>
3343 <A NAME=4.1.112>Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art</A><br>
3344 <A NAME=4.1.113>Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever</A><br>
3345 <A NAME=4.1.114>Reign in this kingdom?</A><br>
3348 <A NAME=speech35><b>ALL</b></a>
3350 <A NAME=4.1.115>Seek to know no more.</A><br>
3353 <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3355 <A NAME=4.1.116>I will be satisfied: deny me this,</A><br>
3356 <A NAME=4.1.117>And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.</A><br>
3357 <A NAME=4.1.118>Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?</A><br>
3358 <p><i>Hautboys</i></p>
3361 <A NAME=speech37><b>First Witch</b></a>
3363 <A NAME=4.1.119>Show!</A><br>
3366 <A NAME=speech38><b>Second Witch</b></a>
3368 <A NAME=4.1.120>Show!</A><br>
3371 <A NAME=speech39><b>Third Witch</b></a>
3373 <A NAME=4.1.121>Show!</A><br>
3376 <A NAME=speech40><b>ALL</b></a>
3378 <A NAME=4.1.122>Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;</A><br>
3379 <A NAME=4.1.123>Come like shadows, so depart!</A><br>
3380 <p><i>A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following</i></p>
3383 <A NAME=speech41><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3385 <A NAME=4.1.124>Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!</A><br>
3386 <A NAME=4.1.125>Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,</A><br>
3387 <A NAME=4.1.126>Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.</A><br>
3388 <A NAME=4.1.127>A third is like the former. Filthy hags!</A><br>
3389 <A NAME=4.1.128>Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!</A><br>
3390 <A NAME=4.1.129>What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?</A><br>
3391 <A NAME=4.1.130>Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:</A><br>
3392 <A NAME=4.1.131>And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass</A><br>
3393 <A NAME=4.1.132>Which shows me many more; and some I see</A><br>
3394 <A NAME=4.1.133>That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:</A><br>
3395 <A NAME=4.1.134>Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;</A><br>
3396 <A NAME=4.1.135>For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,</A><br>
3397 <A NAME=4.1.136>And points at them for his.</A><br>
3398 <p><i>Apparitions vanish</i></p>
3399 <A NAME=4.1.137>What, is this so?</A><br>
3402 <A NAME=speech42><b>First Witch</b></a>
3404 <A NAME=4.1.138>Ay, sir, all this is so: but why</A><br>
3405 <A NAME=4.1.139>Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?</A><br>
3406 <A NAME=4.1.140>Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,</A><br>
3407 <A NAME=4.1.141>And show the best of our delights:</A><br>
3408 <A NAME=4.1.142>I'll charm the air to give a sound,</A><br>
3409 <A NAME=4.1.143>While you perform your antic round:</A><br>
3410 <A NAME=4.1.144>That this great king may kindly say,</A><br>
3411 <A NAME=4.1.145>Our duties did his welcome pay.</A><br>
3412 <p><i>Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE</i></p>
3415 <A NAME=speech43><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3417 <A NAME=4.1.146>Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour</A><br>
3418 <A NAME=4.1.147>Stand aye accursed in the calendar!</A><br>
3419 <A NAME=4.1.148>Come in, without there!</A><br>
3420 <p><i>Enter LENNOX</i></p>
3423 <A NAME=speech44><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3425 <A NAME=4.1.149>What's your grace's will?</A><br>
3428 <A NAME=speech45><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3430 <A NAME=4.1.150>Saw you the weird sisters?</A><br>
3433 <A NAME=speech46><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3435 <A NAME=4.1.151>No, my lord.</A><br>
3438 <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3440 <A NAME=4.1.152>Came they not by you?</A><br>
3443 <A NAME=speech48><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3445 <A NAME=4.1.153>No, indeed, my lord.</A><br>
3448 <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3450 <A NAME=4.1.154>Infected be the air whereon they ride;</A><br>
3451 <A NAME=4.1.155>And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear</A><br>
3452 <A NAME=4.1.156>The galloping of horse: who was't came by?</A><br>
3455 <A NAME=speech50><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3457 <A NAME=4.1.157>'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word</A><br>
3458 <A NAME=4.1.158>Macduff is fled to England.</A><br>
3461 <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3463 <A NAME=4.1.159>Fled to England!</A><br>
3466 <A NAME=speech52><b>LENNOX</b></a>
3468 <A NAME=4.1.160>Ay, my good lord.</A><br>
3471 <A NAME=speech53><b>MACBETH</b></a>
3473 <A NAME=4.1.161>Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:</A><br>
3474 <A NAME=4.1.162>The flighty purpose never is o'ertook</A><br>
3475 <A NAME=4.1.163>Unless the deed go with it; from this moment</A><br>
3476 <A NAME=4.1.164>The very firstlings of my heart shall be</A><br>
3477 <A NAME=4.1.165>The firstlings of my hand. And even now,</A><br>
3478 <A NAME=4.1.166>To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:</A><br>
3479 <A NAME=4.1.167>The castle of Macduff I will surprise;</A><br>
3480 <A NAME=4.1.168>Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword</A><br>
3481 <A NAME=4.1.169>His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls</A><br>
3482 <A NAME=4.1.170>That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;</A><br>
3483 <A NAME=4.1.171>This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.</A><br>
3484 <A NAME=4.1.172>But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?</A><br>
3485 <A NAME=4.1.173>Come, bring me where they are.</A><br>
3486 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3488 <h3>SCENE II. Fife. Macduff's castle.</h3>
3490 <i>Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS</i>
3493 <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3495 <A NAME=4.2.1>What had he done, to make him fly the land?</A><br>
3498 <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSS</b></a>
3500 <A NAME=4.2.2>You must have patience, madam.</A><br>
3503 <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3505 <A NAME=4.2.3>He had none:</A><br>
3506 <A NAME=4.2.4>His flight was madness: when our actions do not,</A><br>
3507 <A NAME=4.2.5>Our fears do make us traitors.</A><br>
3510 <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSS</b></a>
3512 <A NAME=4.2.6>You know not</A><br>
3513 <A NAME=4.2.7>Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.</A><br>
3516 <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3518 <A NAME=4.2.8>Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,</A><br>
3519 <A NAME=4.2.9>His mansion and his titles in a place</A><br>
3520 <A NAME=4.2.10>From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;</A><br>
3521 <A NAME=4.2.11>He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,</A><br>
3522 <A NAME=4.2.12>The most diminutive of birds, will fight,</A><br>
3523 <A NAME=4.2.13>Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.</A><br>
3524 <A NAME=4.2.14>All is the fear and nothing is the love;</A><br>
3525 <A NAME=4.2.15>As little is the wisdom, where the flight</A><br>
3526 <A NAME=4.2.16>So runs against all reason.</A><br>
3529 <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSS</b></a>
3531 <A NAME=4.2.17>My dearest coz,</A><br>
3532 <A NAME=4.2.18>I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,</A><br>
3533 <A NAME=4.2.19>He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows</A><br>
3534 <A NAME=4.2.20>The fits o' the season. I dare not speak</A><br>
3535 <A NAME=4.2.21>much further;</A><br>
3536 <A NAME=4.2.22>But cruel are the times, when we are traitors</A><br>
3537 <A NAME=4.2.23>And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour</A><br>
3538 <A NAME=4.2.24>From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,</A><br>
3539 <A NAME=4.2.25>But float upon a wild and violent sea</A><br>
3540 <A NAME=4.2.26>Each way and move. I take my leave of you:</A><br>
3541 <A NAME=4.2.27>Shall not be long but I'll be here again:</A><br>
3542 <A NAME=4.2.28>Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward</A><br>
3543 <A NAME=4.2.29>To what they were before. My pretty cousin,</A><br>
3544 <A NAME=4.2.30>Blessing upon you!</A><br>
3547 <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3549 <A NAME=4.2.31>Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless.</A><br>
3552 <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSS</b></a>
3554 <A NAME=4.2.32>I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,</A><br>
3555 <A NAME=4.2.33>It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:</A><br>
3556 <A NAME=4.2.34>I take my leave at once.</A><br>
3560 <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3562 <A NAME=4.2.35>Sirrah, your father's dead;</A><br>
3563 <A NAME=4.2.36>And what will you do now? How will you live?</A><br>
3566 <A NAME=speech10><b>Son</b></a>
3568 <A NAME=4.2.37>As birds do, mother.</A><br>
3571 <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3573 <A NAME=4.2.38>What, with worms and flies?</A><br>
3576 <A NAME=speech12><b>Son</b></a>
3578 <A NAME=4.2.39>With what I get, I mean; and so do they.</A><br>
3581 <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3583 <A NAME=4.2.40>Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,</A><br>
3584 <A NAME=4.2.41>The pitfall nor the gin.</A><br>
3587 <A NAME=speech14><b>Son</b></a>
3589 <A NAME=4.2.42>Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.</A><br>
3590 <A NAME=4.2.43>My father is not dead, for all your saying.</A><br>
3593 <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3595 <A NAME=4.2.44>Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father?</A><br>
3598 <A NAME=speech16><b>Son</b></a>
3600 <A NAME=4.2.45>Nay, how will you do for a husband?</A><br>
3603 <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3605 <A NAME=4.2.46>Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.</A><br>
3608 <A NAME=speech18><b>Son</b></a>
3610 <A NAME=4.2.47>Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.</A><br>
3613 <A NAME=speech19><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3615 <A NAME=4.2.48>Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,</A><br>
3616 <A NAME=4.2.49>With wit enough for thee.</A><br>
3619 <A NAME=speech20><b>Son</b></a>
3621 <A NAME=4.2.50>Was my father a traitor, mother?</A><br>
3624 <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3626 <A NAME=4.2.51>Ay, that he was.</A><br>
3629 <A NAME=speech22><b>Son</b></a>
3631 <A NAME=4.2.52>What is a traitor?</A><br>
3634 <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3636 <A NAME=4.2.53>Why, one that swears and lies.</A><br>
3639 <A NAME=speech24><b>Son</b></a>
3641 <A NAME=4.2.54>And be all traitors that do so?</A><br>
3644 <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3646 <A NAME=4.2.55>Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.</A><br>
3649 <A NAME=speech26><b>Son</b></a>
3651 <A NAME=4.2.56>And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?</A><br>
3654 <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3656 <A NAME=4.2.57>Every one.</A><br>
3659 <A NAME=speech28><b>Son</b></a>
3661 <A NAME=4.2.58>Who must hang them?</A><br>
3664 <A NAME=speech29><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3666 <A NAME=4.2.59>Why, the honest men.</A><br>
3669 <A NAME=speech30><b>Son</b></a>
3671 <A NAME=4.2.60>Then the liars and swearers are fools,</A><br>
3672 <A NAME=4.2.61>for there are liars and swearers enow to beat</A><br>
3673 <A NAME=4.2.62>the honest men and hang up them.</A><br>
3676 <A NAME=speech31><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3678 <A NAME=4.2.63>Now, God help thee, poor monkey!</A><br>
3679 <A NAME=4.2.64>But how wilt thou do for a father?</A><br>
3682 <A NAME=speech32><b>Son</b></a>
3684 <A NAME=4.2.65>If he were dead, you'ld weep for</A><br>
3685 <A NAME=4.2.66>him: if you would not, it were a good sign</A><br>
3686 <A NAME=4.2.67>that I should quickly have a new father.</A><br>
3689 <A NAME=speech33><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3691 <A NAME=4.2.68>Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!</A><br>
3692 <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
3695 <A NAME=speech34><b>Messenger</b></a>
3697 <A NAME=4.2.69>Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,</A><br>
3698 <A NAME=4.2.70>Though in your state of honour I am perfect.</A><br>
3699 <A NAME=4.2.71>I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:</A><br>
3700 <A NAME=4.2.72>If you will take a homely man's advice,</A><br>
3701 <A NAME=4.2.73>Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.</A><br>
3702 <A NAME=4.2.74>To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;</A><br>
3703 <A NAME=4.2.75>To do worse to you were fell cruelty,</A><br>
3704 <A NAME=4.2.76>Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!</A><br>
3705 <A NAME=4.2.77>I dare abide no longer.</A><br>
3709 <A NAME=speech35><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3711 <A NAME=4.2.78>Whither should I fly?</A><br>
3712 <A NAME=4.2.79>I have done no harm. But I remember now</A><br>
3713 <A NAME=4.2.80>I am in this earthly world; where to do harm</A><br>
3714 <A NAME=4.2.81>Is often laudable, to do good sometime</A><br>
3715 <A NAME=4.2.82>Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,</A><br>
3716 <A NAME=4.2.83>Do I put up that womanly defence,</A><br>
3717 <A NAME=4.2.84>To say I have done no harm?</A><br>
3718 <p><i>Enter Murderers</i></p>
3719 <A NAME=4.2.85>What are these faces?</A><br>
3722 <A NAME=speech36><b>First Murderer</b></a>
3724 <A NAME=4.2.86>Where is your husband?</A><br>
3727 <A NAME=speech37><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
3729 <A NAME=4.2.87>I hope, in no place so unsanctified</A><br>
3730 <A NAME=4.2.88>Where such as thou mayst find him.</A><br>
3733 <A NAME=speech38><b>First Murderer</b></a>
3735 <A NAME=4.2.89>He's a traitor.</A><br>
3738 <A NAME=speech39><b>Son</b></a>
3740 <A NAME=4.2.90>Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!</A><br>
3743 <A NAME=speech40><b>First Murderer</b></a>
3745 <A NAME=4.2.91>What, you egg!</A><br>
3746 <p><i>Stabbing him</i></p>
3747 <A NAME=4.2.92>Young fry of treachery!</A><br>
3750 <A NAME=speech41><b>Son</b></a>
3752 <A NAME=4.2.93>He has kill'd me, mother:</A><br>
3753 <A NAME=4.2.94>Run away, I pray you!</A><br>
3755 <p><i>Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt Murderers, following her</i></p>
3757 <h3>SCENE III. England. Before the King's palace.</h3>
3759 <i>Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF</i>
3762 <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3764 <A NAME=4.3.1>Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there</A><br>
3765 <A NAME=4.3.2>Weep our sad bosoms empty.</A><br>
3768 <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3770 <A NAME=4.3.3>Let us rather</A><br>
3771 <A NAME=4.3.4>Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men</A><br>
3772 <A NAME=4.3.5>Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn</A><br>
3773 <A NAME=4.3.6>New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows</A><br>
3774 <A NAME=4.3.7>Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds</A><br>
3775 <A NAME=4.3.8>As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out</A><br>
3776 <A NAME=4.3.9>Like syllable of dolour.</A><br>
3779 <A NAME=speech3><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3781 <A NAME=4.3.10>What I believe I'll wail,</A><br>
3782 <A NAME=4.3.11>What know believe, and what I can redress,</A><br>
3783 <A NAME=4.3.12>As I shall find the time to friend, I will.</A><br>
3784 <A NAME=4.3.13>What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.</A><br>
3785 <A NAME=4.3.14>This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,</A><br>
3786 <A NAME=4.3.15>Was once thought honest: you have loved him well.</A><br>
3787 <A NAME=4.3.16>He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young;</A><br>
3788 <A NAME=4.3.17>but something</A><br>
3789 <A NAME=4.3.18>You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom</A><br>
3790 <A NAME=4.3.19>To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb</A><br>
3791 <A NAME=4.3.20>To appease an angry god.</A><br>
3794 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3796 <A NAME=4.3.21>I am not treacherous.</A><br>
3799 <A NAME=speech5><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3801 <A NAME=4.3.22>But Macbeth is.</A><br>
3802 <A NAME=4.3.23>A good and virtuous nature may recoil</A><br>
3803 <A NAME=4.3.24>In an imperial charge. But I shall crave</A><br>
3804 <A NAME=4.3.25>your pardon;</A><br>
3805 <A NAME=4.3.26>That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:</A><br>
3806 <A NAME=4.3.27>Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;</A><br>
3807 <A NAME=4.3.28>Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,</A><br>
3808 <A NAME=4.3.29>Yet grace must still look so.</A><br>
3811 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3813 <A NAME=4.3.30>I have lost my hopes.</A><br>
3816 <A NAME=speech7><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3818 <A NAME=4.3.31>Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.</A><br>
3819 <A NAME=4.3.32>Why in that rawness left you wife and child,</A><br>
3820 <A NAME=4.3.33>Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,</A><br>
3821 <A NAME=4.3.34>Without leave-taking? I pray you,</A><br>
3822 <A NAME=4.3.35>Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,</A><br>
3823 <A NAME=4.3.36>But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,</A><br>
3824 <A NAME=4.3.37>Whatever I shall think.</A><br>
3827 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3829 <A NAME=4.3.38>Bleed, bleed, poor country!</A><br>
3830 <A NAME=4.3.39>Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,</A><br>
3831 <A NAME=4.3.40>For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou</A><br>
3832 <A NAME=4.3.41>thy wrongs;</A><br>
3833 <A NAME=4.3.42>The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:</A><br>
3834 <A NAME=4.3.43>I would not be the villain that thou think'st</A><br>
3835 <A NAME=4.3.44>For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,</A><br>
3836 <A NAME=4.3.45>And the rich East to boot.</A><br>
3839 <A NAME=speech9><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3841 <A NAME=4.3.46>Be not offended:</A><br>
3842 <A NAME=4.3.47>I speak not as in absolute fear of you.</A><br>
3843 <A NAME=4.3.48>I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;</A><br>
3844 <A NAME=4.3.49>It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash</A><br>
3845 <A NAME=4.3.50>Is added to her wounds: I think withal</A><br>
3846 <A NAME=4.3.51>There would be hands uplifted in my right;</A><br>
3847 <A NAME=4.3.52>And here from gracious England have I offer</A><br>
3848 <A NAME=4.3.53>Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,</A><br>
3849 <A NAME=4.3.54>When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,</A><br>
3850 <A NAME=4.3.55>Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country</A><br>
3851 <A NAME=4.3.56>Shall have more vices than it had before,</A><br>
3852 <A NAME=4.3.57>More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,</A><br>
3853 <A NAME=4.3.58>By him that shall succeed.</A><br>
3856 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3858 <A NAME=4.3.59>What should he be?</A><br>
3861 <A NAME=speech11><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3863 <A NAME=4.3.60>It is myself I mean: in whom I know</A><br>
3864 <A NAME=4.3.61>All the particulars of vice so grafted</A><br>
3865 <A NAME=4.3.62>That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth</A><br>
3866 <A NAME=4.3.63>Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state</A><br>
3867 <A NAME=4.3.64>Esteem him as a lamb, being compared</A><br>
3868 <A NAME=4.3.65>With my confineless harms.</A><br>
3871 <A NAME=speech12><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3873 <A NAME=4.3.66>Not in the legions</A><br>
3874 <A NAME=4.3.67>Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd</A><br>
3875 <A NAME=4.3.68>In evils to top Macbeth.</A><br>
3878 <A NAME=speech13><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3880 <A NAME=4.3.69>I grant him bloody,</A><br>
3881 <A NAME=4.3.70>Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,</A><br>
3882 <A NAME=4.3.71>Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin</A><br>
3883 <A NAME=4.3.72>That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,</A><br>
3884 <A NAME=4.3.73>In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,</A><br>
3885 <A NAME=4.3.74>Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up</A><br>
3886 <A NAME=4.3.75>The cistern of my lust, and my desire</A><br>
3887 <A NAME=4.3.76>All continent impediments would o'erbear</A><br>
3888 <A NAME=4.3.77>That did oppose my will: better Macbeth</A><br>
3889 <A NAME=4.3.78>Than such an one to reign.</A><br>
3892 <A NAME=speech14><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3894 <A NAME=4.3.79>Boundless intemperance</A><br>
3895 <A NAME=4.3.80>In nature is a tyranny; it hath been</A><br>
3896 <A NAME=4.3.81>The untimely emptying of the happy throne</A><br>
3897 <A NAME=4.3.82>And fall of many kings. But fear not yet</A><br>
3898 <A NAME=4.3.83>To take upon you what is yours: you may</A><br>
3899 <A NAME=4.3.84>Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,</A><br>
3900 <A NAME=4.3.85>And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.</A><br>
3901 <A NAME=4.3.86>We have willing dames enough: there cannot be</A><br>
3902 <A NAME=4.3.87>That vulture in you, to devour so many</A><br>
3903 <A NAME=4.3.88>As will to greatness dedicate themselves,</A><br>
3904 <A NAME=4.3.89>Finding it so inclined.</A><br>
3907 <A NAME=speech15><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3909 <A NAME=4.3.90>With this there grows</A><br>
3910 <A NAME=4.3.91>In my most ill-composed affection such</A><br>
3911 <A NAME=4.3.92>A stanchless avarice that, were I king,</A><br>
3912 <A NAME=4.3.93>I should cut off the nobles for their lands,</A><br>
3913 <A NAME=4.3.94>Desire his jewels and this other's house:</A><br>
3914 <A NAME=4.3.95>And my more-having would be as a sauce</A><br>
3915 <A NAME=4.3.96>To make me hunger more; that I should forge</A><br>
3916 <A NAME=4.3.97>Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,</A><br>
3917 <A NAME=4.3.98>Destroying them for wealth.</A><br>
3920 <A NAME=speech16><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3922 <A NAME=4.3.99>This avarice</A><br>
3923 <A NAME=4.3.100>Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root</A><br>
3924 <A NAME=4.3.101>Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been</A><br>
3925 <A NAME=4.3.102>The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;</A><br>
3926 <A NAME=4.3.103>Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.</A><br>
3927 <A NAME=4.3.104>Of your mere own: all these are portable,</A><br>
3928 <A NAME=4.3.105>With other graces weigh'd.</A><br>
3931 <A NAME=speech17><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3933 <A NAME=4.3.106>But I have none: the king-becoming graces,</A><br>
3934 <A NAME=4.3.107>As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,</A><br>
3935 <A NAME=4.3.108>Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,</A><br>
3936 <A NAME=4.3.109>Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,</A><br>
3937 <A NAME=4.3.110>I have no relish of them, but abound</A><br>
3938 <A NAME=4.3.111>In the division of each several crime,</A><br>
3939 <A NAME=4.3.112>Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should</A><br>
3940 <A NAME=4.3.113>Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,</A><br>
3941 <A NAME=4.3.114>Uproar the universal peace, confound</A><br>
3942 <A NAME=4.3.115>All unity on earth.</A><br>
3945 <A NAME=speech18><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3947 <A NAME=4.3.116>O Scotland, Scotland!</A><br>
3950 <A NAME=speech19><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3952 <A NAME=4.3.117>If such a one be fit to govern, speak:</A><br>
3953 <A NAME=4.3.118>I am as I have spoken.</A><br>
3956 <A NAME=speech20><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
3958 <A NAME=4.3.119>Fit to govern!</A><br>
3959 <A NAME=4.3.120>No, not to live. O nation miserable,</A><br>
3960 <A NAME=4.3.121>With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,</A><br>
3961 <A NAME=4.3.122>When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,</A><br>
3962 <A NAME=4.3.123>Since that the truest issue of thy throne</A><br>
3963 <A NAME=4.3.124>By his own interdiction stands accursed,</A><br>
3964 <A NAME=4.3.125>And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father</A><br>
3965 <A NAME=4.3.126>Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,</A><br>
3966 <A NAME=4.3.127>Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,</A><br>
3967 <A NAME=4.3.128>Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!</A><br>
3968 <A NAME=4.3.129>These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself</A><br>
3969 <A NAME=4.3.130>Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,</A><br>
3970 <A NAME=4.3.131>Thy hope ends here!</A><br>
3973 <A NAME=speech21><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
3975 <A NAME=4.3.132>Macduff, this noble passion,</A><br>
3976 <A NAME=4.3.133>Child of integrity, hath from my soul</A><br>
3977 <A NAME=4.3.134>Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts</A><br>
3978 <A NAME=4.3.135>To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth</A><br>
3979 <A NAME=4.3.136>By many of these trains hath sought to win me</A><br>
3980 <A NAME=4.3.137>Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me</A><br>
3981 <A NAME=4.3.138>From over-credulous haste: but God above</A><br>
3982 <A NAME=4.3.139>Deal between thee and me! for even now</A><br>
3983 <A NAME=4.3.140>I put myself to thy direction, and</A><br>
3984 <A NAME=4.3.141>Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure</A><br>
3985 <A NAME=4.3.142>The taints and blames I laid upon myself,</A><br>
3986 <A NAME=4.3.143>For strangers to my nature. I am yet</A><br>
3987 <A NAME=4.3.144>Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,</A><br>
3988 <A NAME=4.3.145>Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,</A><br>
3989 <A NAME=4.3.146>At no time broke my faith, would not betray</A><br>
3990 <A NAME=4.3.147>The devil to his fellow and delight</A><br>
3991 <A NAME=4.3.148>No less in truth than life: my first false speaking</A><br>
3992 <A NAME=4.3.149>Was this upon myself: what I am truly,</A><br>
3993 <A NAME=4.3.150>Is thine and my poor country's to command:</A><br>
3994 <A NAME=4.3.151>Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,</A><br>
3995 <A NAME=4.3.152>Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,</A><br>
3996 <A NAME=4.3.153>Already at a point, was setting forth.</A><br>
3997 <A NAME=4.3.154>Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness</A><br>
3998 <A NAME=4.3.155>Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?</A><br>
4001 <A NAME=speech22><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4003 <A NAME=4.3.156>Such welcome and unwelcome things at once</A><br>
4004 <A NAME=4.3.157>'Tis hard to reconcile.</A><br>
4005 <p><i>Enter a Doctor</i></p>
4008 <A NAME=speech23><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4010 <A NAME=4.3.158>Well; more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?</A><br>
4013 <A NAME=speech24><b>Doctor</b></a>
4015 <A NAME=4.3.159>Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls</A><br>
4016 <A NAME=4.3.160>That stay his cure: their malady convinces</A><br>
4017 <A NAME=4.3.161>The great assay of art; but at his touch--</A><br>
4018 <A NAME=4.3.162>Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--</A><br>
4019 <A NAME=4.3.163>They presently amend.</A><br>
4022 <A NAME=speech25><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4024 <A NAME=4.3.164>I thank you, doctor.</A><br>
4025 <p><i>Exit Doctor</i></p>
4028 <A NAME=speech26><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4030 <A NAME=4.3.165>What's the disease he means?</A><br>
4033 <A NAME=speech27><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4035 <A NAME=4.3.166>'Tis call'd the evil:</A><br>
4036 <A NAME=4.3.167>A most miraculous work in this good king;</A><br>
4037 <A NAME=4.3.168>Which often, since my here-remain in England,</A><br>
4038 <A NAME=4.3.169>I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,</A><br>
4039 <A NAME=4.3.170>Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,</A><br>
4040 <A NAME=4.3.171>All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,</A><br>
4041 <A NAME=4.3.172>The mere despair of surgery, he cures,</A><br>
4042 <A NAME=4.3.173>Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,</A><br>
4043 <A NAME=4.3.174>Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,</A><br>
4044 <A NAME=4.3.175>To the succeeding royalty he leaves</A><br>
4045 <A NAME=4.3.176>The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,</A><br>
4046 <A NAME=4.3.177>He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,</A><br>
4047 <A NAME=4.3.178>And sundry blessings hang about his throne,</A><br>
4048 <A NAME=4.3.179>That speak him full of grace.</A><br>
4049 <p><i>Enter ROSS</i></p>
4052 <A NAME=speech28><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4054 <A NAME=4.3.180>See, who comes here?</A><br>
4057 <A NAME=speech29><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4059 <A NAME=4.3.181>My countryman; but yet I know him not.</A><br>
4062 <A NAME=speech30><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4064 <A NAME=4.3.182>My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.</A><br>
4067 <A NAME=speech31><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4069 <A NAME=4.3.183>I know him now. Good God, betimes remove</A><br>
4070 <A NAME=4.3.184>The means that makes us strangers!</A><br>
4073 <A NAME=speech32><b>ROSS</b></a>
4075 <A NAME=4.3.185>Sir, amen.</A><br>
4078 <A NAME=speech33><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4080 <A NAME=4.3.186>Stands Scotland where it did?</A><br>
4083 <A NAME=speech34><b>ROSS</b></a>
4085 <A NAME=4.3.187>Alas, poor country!</A><br>
4086 <A NAME=4.3.188>Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot</A><br>
4087 <A NAME=4.3.189>Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,</A><br>
4088 <A NAME=4.3.190>But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;</A><br>
4089 <A NAME=4.3.191>Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air</A><br>
4090 <A NAME=4.3.192>Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems</A><br>
4091 <A NAME=4.3.193>A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell</A><br>
4092 <A NAME=4.3.194>Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives</A><br>
4093 <A NAME=4.3.195>Expire before the flowers in their caps,</A><br>
4094 <A NAME=4.3.196>Dying or ere they sicken.</A><br>
4097 <A NAME=speech35><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4099 <A NAME=4.3.197>O, relation</A><br>
4100 <A NAME=4.3.198>Too nice, and yet too true!</A><br>
4103 <A NAME=speech36><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4105 <A NAME=4.3.199>What's the newest grief?</A><br>
4108 <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSS</b></a>
4110 <A NAME=4.3.200>That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:</A><br>
4111 <A NAME=4.3.201>Each minute teems a new one.</A><br>
4114 <A NAME=speech38><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4116 <A NAME=4.3.202>How does my wife?</A><br>
4119 <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSS</b></a>
4121 <A NAME=4.3.203>Why, well.</A><br>
4124 <A NAME=speech40><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4126 <A NAME=4.3.204> And all my children?</A><br>
4129 <A NAME=speech41><b>ROSS</b></a>
4131 <A NAME=4.3.205>Well too.</A><br>
4134 <A NAME=speech42><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4136 <A NAME=4.3.206>The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?</A><br>
4139 <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSS</b></a>
4141 <A NAME=4.3.207>No; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.</A><br>
4144 <A NAME=speech44><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4146 <A NAME=4.3.208>But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?</A><br>
4149 <A NAME=speech45><b>ROSS</b></a>
4151 <A NAME=4.3.209>When I came hither to transport the tidings,</A><br>
4152 <A NAME=4.3.210>Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour</A><br>
4153 <A NAME=4.3.211>Of many worthy fellows that were out;</A><br>
4154 <A NAME=4.3.212>Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,</A><br>
4155 <A NAME=4.3.213>For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:</A><br>
4156 <A NAME=4.3.214>Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland</A><br>
4157 <A NAME=4.3.215>Would create soldiers, make our women fight,</A><br>
4158 <A NAME=4.3.216>To doff their dire distresses.</A><br>
4161 <A NAME=speech46><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4163 <A NAME=4.3.217>Be't their comfort</A><br>
4164 <A NAME=4.3.218>We are coming thither: gracious England hath</A><br>
4165 <A NAME=4.3.219>Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;</A><br>
4166 <A NAME=4.3.220>An older and a better soldier none</A><br>
4167 <A NAME=4.3.221>That Christendom gives out.</A><br>
4170 <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSS</b></a>
4172 <A NAME=4.3.222>Would I could answer</A><br>
4173 <A NAME=4.3.223>This comfort with the like! But I have words</A><br>
4174 <A NAME=4.3.224>That would be howl'd out in the desert air,</A><br>
4175 <A NAME=4.3.225>Where hearing should not latch them.</A><br>
4178 <A NAME=speech48><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4180 <A NAME=4.3.226>What concern they?</A><br>
4181 <A NAME=4.3.227>The general cause? or is it a fee-grief</A><br>
4182 <A NAME=4.3.228>Due to some single breast?</A><br>
4185 <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSS</b></a>
4187 <A NAME=4.3.229>No mind that's honest</A><br>
4188 <A NAME=4.3.230>But in it shares some woe; though the main part</A><br>
4189 <A NAME=4.3.231>Pertains to you alone.</A><br>
4192 <A NAME=speech50><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4194 <A NAME=4.3.232>If it be mine,</A><br>
4195 <A NAME=4.3.233>Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.</A><br>
4198 <A NAME=speech51><b>ROSS</b></a>
4200 <A NAME=4.3.234>Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,</A><br>
4201 <A NAME=4.3.235>Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound</A><br>
4202 <A NAME=4.3.236>That ever yet they heard.</A><br>
4205 <A NAME=speech52><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4207 <A NAME=4.3.237>Hum! I guess at it.</A><br>
4210 <A NAME=speech53><b>ROSS</b></a>
4212 <A NAME=4.3.238>Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes</A><br>
4213 <A NAME=4.3.239>Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,</A><br>
4214 <A NAME=4.3.240>Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,</A><br>
4215 <A NAME=4.3.241>To add the death of you.</A><br>
4218 <A NAME=speech54><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4220 <A NAME=4.3.242>Merciful heaven!</A><br>
4221 <A NAME=4.3.243>What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows;</A><br>
4222 <A NAME=4.3.244>Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak</A><br>
4223 <A NAME=4.3.245>Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.</A><br>
4226 <A NAME=speech55><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4228 <A NAME=4.3.246>My children too?</A><br>
4231 <A NAME=speech56><b>ROSS</b></a>
4233 <A NAME=4.3.247> Wife, children, servants, all</A><br>
4234 <A NAME=4.3.248>That could be found.</A><br>
4237 <A NAME=speech57><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4239 <A NAME=4.3.249>And I must be from thence!</A><br>
4240 <A NAME=4.3.250>My wife kill'd too?</A><br>
4243 <A NAME=speech58><b>ROSS</b></a>
4245 <A NAME=4.3.251>I have said.</A><br>
4248 <A NAME=speech59><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4250 <A NAME=4.3.252>Be comforted:</A><br>
4251 <A NAME=4.3.253>Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,</A><br>
4252 <A NAME=4.3.254>To cure this deadly grief.</A><br>
4255 <A NAME=speech60><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4257 <A NAME=4.3.255>He has no children. All my pretty ones?</A><br>
4258 <A NAME=4.3.256>Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?</A><br>
4259 <A NAME=4.3.257>What, all my pretty chickens and their dam</A><br>
4260 <A NAME=4.3.258>At one fell swoop?</A><br>
4263 <A NAME=speech61><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4265 <A NAME=4.3.259>Dispute it like a man.</A><br>
4268 <A NAME=speech62><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4270 <A NAME=4.3.260>I shall do so;</A><br>
4271 <A NAME=4.3.261>But I must also feel it as a man:</A><br>
4272 <A NAME=4.3.262>I cannot but remember such things were,</A><br>
4273 <A NAME=4.3.263>That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,</A><br>
4274 <A NAME=4.3.264>And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,</A><br>
4275 <A NAME=4.3.265>They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,</A><br>
4276 <A NAME=4.3.266>Not for their own demerits, but for mine,</A><br>
4277 <A NAME=4.3.267>Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!</A><br>
4280 <A NAME=speech63><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4282 <A NAME=4.3.268>Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief</A><br>
4283 <A NAME=4.3.269>Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.</A><br>
4286 <A NAME=speech64><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4288 <A NAME=4.3.270>O, I could play the woman with mine eyes</A><br>
4289 <A NAME=4.3.271>And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,</A><br>
4290 <A NAME=4.3.272>Cut short all intermission; front to front</A><br>
4291 <A NAME=4.3.273>Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;</A><br>
4292 <A NAME=4.3.274>Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,</A><br>
4293 <A NAME=4.3.275>Heaven forgive him too!</A><br>
4296 <A NAME=speech65><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4298 <A NAME=4.3.276>This tune goes manly.</A><br>
4299 <A NAME=4.3.277>Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;</A><br>
4300 <A NAME=4.3.278>Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth</A><br>
4301 <A NAME=4.3.279>Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above</A><br>
4302 <A NAME=4.3.280>Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:</A><br>
4303 <A NAME=4.3.281>The night is long that never finds the day.</A><br>
4304 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4307 <h3>SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.</h3>
4309 <i>Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman</i>
4312 <A NAME=speech1><b>Doctor</b></a>
4314 <A NAME=5.1.1>I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive</A><br>
4315 <A NAME=5.1.2>no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?</A><br>
4318 <A NAME=speech2><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4320 <A NAME=5.1.3>Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen</A><br>
4321 <A NAME=5.1.4>her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon</A><br>
4322 <A NAME=5.1.5>her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,</A><br>
4323 <A NAME=5.1.6>write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again</A><br>
4324 <A NAME=5.1.7>return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.</A><br>
4327 <A NAME=speech3><b>Doctor</b></a>
4329 <A NAME=5.1.8>A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once</A><br>
4330 <A NAME=5.1.9>the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of</A><br>
4331 <A NAME=5.1.10>watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her</A><br>
4332 <A NAME=5.1.11>walking and other actual performances, what, at any</A><br>
4333 <A NAME=5.1.12>time, have you heard her say?</A><br>
4336 <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4338 <A NAME=5.1.13>That, sir, which I will not report after her.</A><br>
4341 <A NAME=speech5><b>Doctor</b></a>
4343 <A NAME=5.1.14>You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should.</A><br>
4346 <A NAME=speech6><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4348 <A NAME=5.1.15>Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to</A><br>
4349 <A NAME=5.1.16>confirm my speech.</A><br>
4350 <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper</i></p>
4351 <A NAME=5.1.17>Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;</A><br>
4352 <A NAME=5.1.18>and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.</A><br>
4355 <A NAME=speech7><b>Doctor</b></a>
4357 <A NAME=5.1.19>How came she by that light?</A><br>
4360 <A NAME=speech8><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4362 <A NAME=5.1.20>Why, it stood by her: she has light by her</A><br>
4363 <A NAME=5.1.21>continually; 'tis her command.</A><br>
4366 <A NAME=speech9><b>Doctor</b></a>
4368 <A NAME=5.1.22>You see, her eyes are open.</A><br>
4371 <A NAME=speech10><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4373 <A NAME=5.1.23>Ay, but their sense is shut.</A><br>
4376 <A NAME=speech11><b>Doctor</b></a>
4378 <A NAME=5.1.24>What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.</A><br>
4381 <A NAME=speech12><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4383 <A NAME=5.1.25>It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus</A><br>
4384 <A NAME=5.1.26>washing her hands: I have known her continue in</A><br>
4385 <A NAME=5.1.27>this a quarter of an hour.</A><br>
4388 <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4390 <A NAME=5.1.28>Yet here's a spot.</A><br>
4393 <A NAME=speech14><b>Doctor</b></a>
4395 <A NAME=5.1.29>Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from</A><br>
4396 <A NAME=5.1.30>her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.</A><br>
4399 <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4401 <A NAME=5.1.31>Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,</A><br>
4402 <A NAME=5.1.32>then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my</A><br>
4403 <A NAME=5.1.33>lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we</A><br>
4404 <A NAME=5.1.34>fear who knows it, when none can call our power to</A><br>
4405 <A NAME=5.1.35>account?--Yet who would have thought the old man</A><br>
4406 <A NAME=5.1.36>to have had so much blood in him.</A><br>
4409 <A NAME=speech16><b>Doctor</b></a>
4411 <A NAME=5.1.37>Do you mark that?</A><br>
4414 <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4416 <A NAME=5.1.38>The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--</A><br>
4417 <A NAME=5.1.39>What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'</A><br>
4418 <A NAME=5.1.40>that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with</A><br>
4419 <A NAME=5.1.41>this starting.</A><br>
4422 <A NAME=speech18><b>Doctor</b></a>
4424 <A NAME=5.1.42>Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.</A><br>
4427 <A NAME=speech19><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4429 <A NAME=5.1.43>She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of</A><br>
4430 <A NAME=5.1.44>that: heaven knows what she has known.</A><br>
4433 <A NAME=speech20><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4435 <A NAME=5.1.45>Here's the smell of the blood still: all the</A><br>
4436 <A NAME=5.1.46>perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little</A><br>
4437 <A NAME=5.1.47>hand. Oh, oh, oh!</A><br>
4440 <A NAME=speech21><b>Doctor</b></a>
4442 <A NAME=5.1.48>What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.</A><br>
4445 <A NAME=speech22><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4447 <A NAME=5.1.49>I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the</A><br>
4448 <A NAME=5.1.50>dignity of the whole body.</A><br>
4451 <A NAME=speech23><b>Doctor</b></a>
4453 <A NAME=5.1.51>Well, well, well,--</A><br>
4456 <A NAME=speech24><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4458 <A NAME=5.1.52>Pray God it be, sir.</A><br>
4461 <A NAME=speech25><b>Doctor</b></a>
4463 <A NAME=5.1.53>This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known</A><br>
4464 <A NAME=5.1.54>those which have walked in their sleep who have died</A><br>
4465 <A NAME=5.1.55>holily in their beds.</A><br>
4468 <A NAME=speech26><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4470 <A NAME=5.1.56>Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so</A><br>
4471 <A NAME=5.1.57>pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he</A><br>
4472 <A NAME=5.1.58>cannot come out on's grave.</A><br>
4475 <A NAME=speech27><b>Doctor</b></a>
4477 <A NAME=5.1.59>Even so?</A><br>
4480 <A NAME=speech28><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
4482 <A NAME=5.1.60>To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:</A><br>
4483 <A NAME=5.1.61>come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's</A><br>
4484 <A NAME=5.1.62>done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!</A><br>
4488 <A NAME=speech29><b>Doctor</b></a>
4490 <A NAME=5.1.63>Will she go now to bed?</A><br>
4493 <A NAME=speech30><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4495 <A NAME=5.1.64>Directly.</A><br>
4498 <A NAME=speech31><b>Doctor</b></a>
4500 <A NAME=5.1.65>Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds</A><br>
4501 <A NAME=5.1.66>Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds</A><br>
4502 <A NAME=5.1.67>To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:</A><br>
4503 <A NAME=5.1.68>More needs she the divine than the physician.</A><br>
4504 <A NAME=5.1.69>God, God forgive us all! Look after her;</A><br>
4505 <A NAME=5.1.70>Remove from her the means of all annoyance,</A><br>
4506 <A NAME=5.1.71>And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:</A><br>
4507 <A NAME=5.1.72>My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.</A><br>
4508 <A NAME=5.1.73>I think, but dare not speak.</A><br>
4511 <A NAME=speech32><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
4513 <A NAME=5.1.74>Good night, good doctor.</A><br>
4514 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4516 <h3>SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane.</h3>
4518 <i>Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers</i>
4521 <A NAME=speech1><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
4523 <A NAME=5.2.1>The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,</A><br>
4524 <A NAME=5.2.2>His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:</A><br>
4525 <A NAME=5.2.3>Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes</A><br>
4526 <A NAME=5.2.4>Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm</A><br>
4527 <A NAME=5.2.5>Excite the mortified man.</A><br>
4530 <A NAME=speech2><b>ANGUS</b></a>
4532 <A NAME=5.2.6>Near Birnam wood</A><br>
4533 <A NAME=5.2.7>Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming.</A><br>
4536 <A NAME=speech3><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
4538 <A NAME=5.2.8>Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?</A><br>
4541 <A NAME=speech4><b>LENNOX</b></a>
4543 <A NAME=5.2.9>For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file</A><br>
4544 <A NAME=5.2.10>Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,</A><br>
4545 <A NAME=5.2.11>And many unrough youths that even now</A><br>
4546 <A NAME=5.2.12>Protest their first of manhood.</A><br>
4549 <A NAME=speech5><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
4551 <A NAME=5.2.13>What does the tyrant?</A><br>
4554 <A NAME=speech6><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
4556 <A NAME=5.2.14>Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:</A><br>
4557 <A NAME=5.2.15>Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him</A><br>
4558 <A NAME=5.2.16>Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,</A><br>
4559 <A NAME=5.2.17>He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause</A><br>
4560 <A NAME=5.2.18>Within the belt of rule.</A><br>
4563 <A NAME=speech7><b>ANGUS</b></a>
4565 <A NAME=5.2.19>Now does he feel</A><br>
4566 <A NAME=5.2.20>His secret murders sticking on his hands;</A><br>
4567 <A NAME=5.2.21>Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;</A><br>
4568 <A NAME=5.2.22>Those he commands move only in command,</A><br>
4569 <A NAME=5.2.23>Nothing in love: now does he feel his title</A><br>
4570 <A NAME=5.2.24>Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe</A><br>
4571 <A NAME=5.2.25>Upon a dwarfish thief.</A><br>
4574 <A NAME=speech8><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
4576 <A NAME=5.2.26>Who then shall blame</A><br>
4577 <A NAME=5.2.27>His pester'd senses to recoil and start,</A><br>
4578 <A NAME=5.2.28>When all that is within him does condemn</A><br>
4579 <A NAME=5.2.29>Itself for being there?</A><br>
4582 <A NAME=speech9><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
4584 <A NAME=5.2.30>Well, march we on,</A><br>
4585 <A NAME=5.2.31>To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:</A><br>
4586 <A NAME=5.2.32>Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,</A><br>
4587 <A NAME=5.2.33>And with him pour we in our country's purge</A><br>
4588 <A NAME=5.2.34>Each drop of us.</A><br>
4591 <A NAME=speech10><b>LENNOX</b></a>
4593 <A NAME=5.2.35> Or so much as it needs,</A><br>
4594 <A NAME=5.2.36>To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.</A><br>
4595 <A NAME=5.2.37>Make we our march towards Birnam.</A><br>
4596 <p><i>Exeunt, marching</i></p>
4598 <h3>SCENE III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle.</h3>
4600 <i>Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants</i>
4603 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4605 <A NAME=5.3.1>Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:</A><br>
4606 <A NAME=5.3.2>Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,</A><br>
4607 <A NAME=5.3.3>I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?</A><br>
4608 <A NAME=5.3.4>Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know</A><br>
4609 <A NAME=5.3.5>All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:</A><br>
4610 <A NAME=5.3.6>'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman</A><br>
4611 <A NAME=5.3.7>Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,</A><br>
4612 <A NAME=5.3.8>false thanes,</A><br>
4613 <A NAME=5.3.9>And mingle with the English epicures:</A><br>
4614 <A NAME=5.3.10>The mind I sway by and the heart I bear</A><br>
4615 <A NAME=5.3.11>Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.</A><br>
4616 <p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
4617 <A NAME=5.3.12>The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!</A><br>
4618 <A NAME=5.3.13>Where got'st thou that goose look?</A><br>
4621 <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
4623 <A NAME=5.3.14>There is ten thousand--</A><br>
4626 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4628 <A NAME=5.3.15>Geese, villain!</A><br>
4631 <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
4633 <A NAME=5.3.16>Soldiers, sir.</A><br>
4636 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4638 <A NAME=5.3.17>Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,</A><br>
4639 <A NAME=5.3.18>Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?</A><br>
4640 <A NAME=5.3.19>Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine</A><br>
4641 <A NAME=5.3.20>Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?</A><br>
4644 <A NAME=speech6><b>Servant</b></a>
4646 <A NAME=5.3.21>The English force, so please you.</A><br>
4649 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4651 <A NAME=5.3.22>Take thy face hence.</A><br>
4652 <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
4653 <A NAME=5.3.23>Seyton!--I am sick at heart,</A><br>
4654 <A NAME=5.3.24>When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push</A><br>
4655 <A NAME=5.3.25>Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.</A><br>
4656 <A NAME=5.3.26>I have lived long enough: my way of life</A><br>
4657 <A NAME=5.3.27>Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;</A><br>
4658 <A NAME=5.3.28>And that which should accompany old age,</A><br>
4659 <A NAME=5.3.29>As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,</A><br>
4660 <A NAME=5.3.30>I must not look to have; but, in their stead,</A><br>
4661 <A NAME=5.3.31>Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,</A><br>
4662 <A NAME=5.3.32>Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!</A><br>
4663 <p><i>Enter SEYTON</i></p>
4666 <A NAME=speech8><b>SEYTON</b></a>
4668 <A NAME=5.3.33>What is your gracious pleasure?</A><br>
4671 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4673 <A NAME=5.3.34>What news more?</A><br>
4676 <A NAME=speech10><b>SEYTON</b></a>
4678 <A NAME=5.3.35>All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.</A><br>
4681 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4683 <A NAME=5.3.36>I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.</A><br>
4684 <A NAME=5.3.37>Give me my armour.</A><br>
4687 <A NAME=speech12><b>SEYTON</b></a>
4689 <A NAME=5.3.38>'Tis not needed yet.</A><br>
4692 <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4694 <A NAME=5.3.39>I'll put it on.</A><br>
4695 <A NAME=5.3.40>Send out more horses; skirr the country round;</A><br>
4696 <A NAME=5.3.41>Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.</A><br>
4697 <A NAME=5.3.42>How does your patient, doctor?</A><br>
4700 <A NAME=speech14><b>Doctor</b></a>
4702 <A NAME=5.3.43>Not so sick, my lord,</A><br>
4703 <A NAME=5.3.44>As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,</A><br>
4704 <A NAME=5.3.45>That keep her from her rest.</A><br>
4707 <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4709 <A NAME=5.3.46>Cure her of that.</A><br>
4710 <A NAME=5.3.47>Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,</A><br>
4711 <A NAME=5.3.48>Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,</A><br>
4712 <A NAME=5.3.49>Raze out the written troubles of the brain</A><br>
4713 <A NAME=5.3.50>And with some sweet oblivious antidote</A><br>
4714 <A NAME=5.3.51>Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff</A><br>
4715 <A NAME=5.3.52>Which weighs upon the heart?</A><br>
4718 <A NAME=speech16><b>Doctor</b></a>
4720 <A NAME=5.3.53>Therein the patient</A><br>
4721 <A NAME=5.3.54>Must minister to himself.</A><br>
4724 <A NAME=speech17><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4726 <A NAME=5.3.55>Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.</A><br>
4727 <A NAME=5.3.56>Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.</A><br>
4728 <A NAME=5.3.57>Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.</A><br>
4729 <A NAME=5.3.58>Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast</A><br>
4730 <A NAME=5.3.59>The water of my land, find her disease,</A><br>
4731 <A NAME=5.3.60>And purge it to a sound and pristine health,</A><br>
4732 <A NAME=5.3.61>I would applaud thee to the very echo,</A><br>
4733 <A NAME=5.3.62>That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--</A><br>
4734 <A NAME=5.3.63>What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,</A><br>
4735 <A NAME=5.3.64>Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?</A><br>
4738 <A NAME=speech18><b>Doctor</b></a>
4740 <A NAME=5.3.65>Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation</A><br>
4741 <A NAME=5.3.66>Makes us hear something.</A><br>
4744 <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4746 <A NAME=5.3.67>Bring it after me.</A><br>
4747 <A NAME=5.3.68>I will not be afraid of death and bane,</A><br>
4748 <A NAME=5.3.69>Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.</A><br>
4751 <A NAME=speech20><b>Doctor</b></a>
4753 <A NAME=5.3.70>[Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,</A><br>
4754 <A NAME=5.3.71>Profit again should hardly draw me here.</A><br>
4755 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4757 <h3>SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood.</h3>
4759 <i>Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching</i>
4762 <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4764 <A NAME=5.4.1>Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand</A><br>
4765 <A NAME=5.4.2>That chambers will be safe.</A><br>
4768 <A NAME=speech2><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
4770 <A NAME=5.4.3>We doubt it nothing.</A><br>
4773 <A NAME=speech3><b>SIWARD</b></a>
4775 <A NAME=5.4.4>What wood is this before us?</A><br>
4778 <A NAME=speech4><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
4780 <A NAME=5.4.5>The wood of Birnam.</A><br>
4783 <A NAME=speech5><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4785 <A NAME=5.4.6>Let every soldier hew him down a bough</A><br>
4786 <A NAME=5.4.7>And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow</A><br>
4787 <A NAME=5.4.8>The numbers of our host and make discovery</A><br>
4788 <A NAME=5.4.9>Err in report of us.</A><br>
4791 <A NAME=speech6><b>Soldiers</b></a>
4793 <A NAME=5.4.10>It shall be done.</A><br>
4796 <A NAME=speech7><b>SIWARD</b></a>
4798 <A NAME=5.4.11>We learn no other but the confident tyrant</A><br>
4799 <A NAME=5.4.12>Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure</A><br>
4800 <A NAME=5.4.13>Our setting down before 't.</A><br>
4803 <A NAME=speech8><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4805 <A NAME=5.4.14>'Tis his main hope:</A><br>
4806 <A NAME=5.4.15>For where there is advantage to be given,</A><br>
4807 <A NAME=5.4.16>Both more and less have given him the revolt,</A><br>
4808 <A NAME=5.4.17>And none serve with him but constrained things</A><br>
4809 <A NAME=5.4.18>Whose hearts are absent too.</A><br>
4812 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4814 <A NAME=5.4.19>Let our just censures</A><br>
4815 <A NAME=5.4.20>Attend the true event, and put we on</A><br>
4816 <A NAME=5.4.21>Industrious soldiership.</A><br>
4819 <A NAME=speech10><b>SIWARD</b></a>
4821 <A NAME=5.4.22>The time approaches</A><br>
4822 <A NAME=5.4.23>That will with due decision make us know</A><br>
4823 <A NAME=5.4.24>What we shall say we have and what we owe.</A><br>
4824 <A NAME=5.4.25>Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,</A><br>
4825 <A NAME=5.4.26>But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:</A><br>
4826 <A NAME=5.4.27>Towards which advance the war.</A><br>
4827 <p><i>Exeunt, marching</i></p>
4829 <h3>SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.</h3>
4831 <i>Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours</i>
4834 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4836 <A NAME=5.5.1>Hang out our banners on the outward walls;</A><br>
4837 <A NAME=5.5.2>The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength</A><br>
4838 <A NAME=5.5.3>Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie</A><br>
4839 <A NAME=5.5.4>Till famine and the ague eat them up:</A><br>
4840 <A NAME=5.5.5>Were they not forced with those that should be ours,</A><br>
4841 <A NAME=5.5.6>We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,</A><br>
4842 <A NAME=5.5.7>And beat them backward home.</A><br>
4843 <p><i>A cry of women within</i></p>
4844 <A NAME=5.5.8>What is that noise?</A><br>
4847 <A NAME=speech2><b>SEYTON</b></a>
4849 <A NAME=5.5.9>It is the cry of women, my good lord.</A><br>
4853 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4855 <A NAME=5.5.10>I have almost forgot the taste of fears;</A><br>
4856 <A NAME=5.5.11>The time has been, my senses would have cool'd</A><br>
4857 <A NAME=5.5.12>To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair</A><br>
4858 <A NAME=5.5.13>Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir</A><br>
4859 <A NAME=5.5.14>As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;</A><br>
4860 <A NAME=5.5.15>Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts</A><br>
4861 <A NAME=5.5.16>Cannot once start me.</A><br>
4862 <p><i>Re-enter SEYTON</i></p>
4863 <A NAME=5.5.17>Wherefore was that cry?</A><br>
4866 <A NAME=speech4><b>SEYTON</b></a>
4868 <A NAME=5.5.18>The queen, my lord, is dead.</A><br>
4871 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4873 <A NAME=5.5.19>She should have died hereafter;</A><br>
4874 <A NAME=5.5.20>There would have been a time for such a word.</A><br>
4875 <A NAME=5.5.21>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,</A><br>
4876 <A NAME=5.5.22>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day</A><br>
4877 <A NAME=5.5.23>To the last syllable of recorded time,</A><br>
4878 <A NAME=5.5.24>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</A><br>
4879 <A NAME=5.5.25>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</A><br>
4880 <A NAME=5.5.26>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player</A><br>
4881 <A NAME=5.5.27>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</A><br>
4882 <A NAME=5.5.28>And then is heard no more: it is a tale</A><br>
4883 <A NAME=5.5.29>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,</A><br>
4884 <A NAME=5.5.30>Signifying nothing.</A><br>
4885 <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
4886 <A NAME=5.5.31>Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.</A><br>
4889 <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a>
4891 <A NAME=5.5.32>Gracious my lord,</A><br>
4892 <A NAME=5.5.33>I should report that which I say I saw,</A><br>
4893 <A NAME=5.5.34>But know not how to do it.</A><br>
4896 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4898 <A NAME=5.5.35>Well, say, sir.</A><br>
4901 <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a>
4903 <A NAME=5.5.36>As I did stand my watch upon the hill,</A><br>
4904 <A NAME=5.5.37>I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,</A><br>
4905 <A NAME=5.5.38>The wood began to move.</A><br>
4908 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4910 <A NAME=5.5.39>Liar and slave!</A><br>
4913 <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a>
4915 <A NAME=5.5.40>Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:</A><br>
4916 <A NAME=5.5.41>Within this three mile may you see it coming;</A><br>
4917 <A NAME=5.5.42>I say, a moving grove.</A><br>
4920 <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4922 <A NAME=5.5.43>If thou speak'st false,</A><br>
4923 <A NAME=5.5.44>Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,</A><br>
4924 <A NAME=5.5.45>Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,</A><br>
4925 <A NAME=5.5.46>I care not if thou dost for me as much.</A><br>
4926 <A NAME=5.5.47>I pull in resolution, and begin</A><br>
4927 <A NAME=5.5.48>To doubt the equivocation of the fiend</A><br>
4928 <A NAME=5.5.49>That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood</A><br>
4929 <A NAME=5.5.50>Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood</A><br>
4930 <A NAME=5.5.51>Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!</A><br>
4931 <A NAME=5.5.52>If this which he avouches does appear,</A><br>
4932 <A NAME=5.5.53>There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.</A><br>
4933 <A NAME=5.5.54>I gin to be aweary of the sun,</A><br>
4934 <A NAME=5.5.55>And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.</A><br>
4935 <A NAME=5.5.56>Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!</A><br>
4936 <A NAME=5.5.57>At least we'll die with harness on our back.</A><br>
4937 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4939 <h3>SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle.</h3>
4941 <i>Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs</i>
4944 <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
4946 <A NAME=5.6.1>Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.</A><br>
4947 <A NAME=5.6.2>And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,</A><br>
4948 <A NAME=5.6.3>Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,</A><br>
4949 <A NAME=5.6.4>Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we</A><br>
4950 <A NAME=5.6.5>Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,</A><br>
4951 <A NAME=5.6.6>According to our order.</A><br>
4954 <A NAME=speech2><b>SIWARD</b></a>
4956 <A NAME=5.6.7>Fare you well.</A><br>
4957 <A NAME=5.6.8>Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,</A><br>
4958 <A NAME=5.6.9>Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.</A><br>
4961 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
4963 <A NAME=5.6.10>Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,</A><br>
4964 <A NAME=5.6.11>Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.</A><br>
4965 <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4967 <h3>SCENE VII. Another part of the field.</h3>
4969 <i>Alarums. Enter MACBETH</i>
4972 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4974 <A NAME=5.7.1>They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,</A><br>
4975 <A NAME=5.7.2>But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he</A><br>
4976 <A NAME=5.7.3>That was not born of woman? Such a one</A><br>
4977 <A NAME=5.7.4>Am I to fear, or none.</A><br>
4978 <p><i>Enter YOUNG SIWARD</i></p>
4981 <A NAME=speech2><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
4983 <A NAME=5.7.5>What is thy name?</A><br>
4986 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4988 <A NAME=5.7.6> Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.</A><br>
4991 <A NAME=speech4><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
4993 <A NAME=5.7.7>No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name</A><br>
4994 <A NAME=5.7.8>Than any is in hell.</A><br>
4997 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
4999 <A NAME=5.7.9>My name's Macbeth.</A><br>
5002 <A NAME=speech6><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
5004 <A NAME=5.7.10>The devil himself could not pronounce a title</A><br>
5005 <A NAME=5.7.11>More hateful to mine ear.</A><br>
5008 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5010 <A NAME=5.7.12>No, nor more fearful.</A><br>
5013 <A NAME=speech8><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
5015 <A NAME=5.7.13>Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword</A><br>
5016 <A NAME=5.7.14>I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.</A><br>
5017 <p><i>They fight and YOUNG SIWARD is slain</i></p>
5020 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5022 <A NAME=5.7.15>Thou wast born of woman</A><br>
5023 <A NAME=5.7.16>But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,</A><br>
5024 <A NAME=5.7.17>Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.</A><br>
5026 <p><i>Alarums. Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
5029 <A NAME=speech10><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5031 <A NAME=5.7.18>That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!</A><br>
5032 <A NAME=5.7.19>If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,</A><br>
5033 <A NAME=5.7.20>My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.</A><br>
5034 <A NAME=5.7.21>I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms</A><br>
5035 <A NAME=5.7.22>Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,</A><br>
5036 <A NAME=5.7.23>Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge</A><br>
5037 <A NAME=5.7.24>I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;</A><br>
5038 <A NAME=5.7.25>By this great clatter, one of greatest note</A><br>
5039 <A NAME=5.7.26>Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!</A><br>
5040 <A NAME=5.7.27>And more I beg not.</A><br>
5041 <p><i>Exit. Alarums</i></p>
5042 <p><i>Enter MALCOLM and SIWARD</i></p>
5045 <A NAME=speech11><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5047 <A NAME=5.7.28>This way, my lord; the castle's gently render'd:</A><br>
5048 <A NAME=5.7.29>The tyrant's people on both sides do fight;</A><br>
5049 <A NAME=5.7.30>The noble thanes do bravely in the war;</A><br>
5050 <A NAME=5.7.31>The day almost itself professes yours,</A><br>
5051 <A NAME=5.7.32>And little is to do.</A><br>
5054 <A NAME=speech12><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
5056 <A NAME=5.7.33>We have met with foes</A><br>
5057 <A NAME=5.7.34>That strike beside us.</A><br>
5060 <A NAME=speech13><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5062 <A NAME=5.7.35>Enter, sir, the castle.</A><br>
5063 <p><i>Exeunt. Alarums</i></p>
5065 <h3>SCENE VIII. Another part of the field.</h3>
5067 <i>Enter MACBETH</i>
5070 <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5072 <A NAME=5.8.1>Why should I play the Roman fool, and die</A><br>
5073 <A NAME=5.8.2>On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes</A><br>
5074 <A NAME=5.8.3>Do better upon them.</A><br>
5075 <p><i>Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
5078 <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5080 <A NAME=5.8.4>Turn, hell-hound, turn!</A><br>
5083 <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5085 <A NAME=5.8.5>Of all men else I have avoided thee:</A><br>
5086 <A NAME=5.8.6>But get thee back; my soul is too much charged</A><br>
5087 <A NAME=5.8.7>With blood of thine already.</A><br>
5090 <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5092 <A NAME=5.8.8>I have no words:</A><br>
5093 <A NAME=5.8.9>My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain</A><br>
5094 <A NAME=5.8.10>Than terms can give thee out!</A><br>
5095 <p><i>They fight</i></p>
5098 <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5100 <A NAME=5.8.11>Thou losest labour:</A><br>
5101 <A NAME=5.8.12>As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air</A><br>
5102 <A NAME=5.8.13>With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:</A><br>
5103 <A NAME=5.8.14>Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;</A><br>
5104 <A NAME=5.8.15>I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,</A><br>
5105 <A NAME=5.8.16>To one of woman born.</A><br>
5108 <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5110 <A NAME=5.8.17>Despair thy charm;</A><br>
5111 <A NAME=5.8.18>And let the angel whom thou still hast served</A><br>
5112 <A NAME=5.8.19>Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb</A><br>
5113 <A NAME=5.8.20>Untimely ripp'd.</A><br>
5116 <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5118 <A NAME=5.8.21>Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,</A><br>
5119 <A NAME=5.8.22>For it hath cow'd my better part of man!</A><br>
5120 <A NAME=5.8.23>And be these juggling fiends no more believed,</A><br>
5121 <A NAME=5.8.24>That palter with us in a double sense;</A><br>
5122 <A NAME=5.8.25>That keep the word of promise to our ear,</A><br>
5123 <A NAME=5.8.26>And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.</A><br>
5126 <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5128 <A NAME=5.8.27>Then yield thee, coward,</A><br>
5129 <A NAME=5.8.28>And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:</A><br>
5130 <A NAME=5.8.29>We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,</A><br>
5131 <A NAME=5.8.30>Painted on a pole, and underwrit,</A><br>
5132 <A NAME=5.8.31>'Here may you see the tyrant.'</A><br>
5135 <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
5137 <A NAME=5.8.32>I will not yield,</A><br>
5138 <A NAME=5.8.33>To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,</A><br>
5139 <A NAME=5.8.34>And to be baited with the rabble's curse.</A><br>
5140 <A NAME=5.8.35>Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,</A><br>
5141 <A NAME=5.8.36>And thou opposed, being of no woman born,</A><br>
5142 <A NAME=5.8.37>Yet I will try the last. Before my body</A><br>
5143 <A NAME=5.8.38>I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,</A><br>
5144 <A NAME=5.8.39>And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'</A><br>
5145 <p><i>Exeunt, fighting. Alarums</i></p>
5146 <p><i>Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers</i></p>
5149 <A NAME=speech10><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
5151 <A NAME=5.8.40>I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.</A><br>
5154 <A NAME=speech11><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5156 <A NAME=5.8.41>Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,</A><br>
5157 <A NAME=5.8.42>So great a day as this is cheaply bought.</A><br>
5160 <A NAME=speech12><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
5162 <A NAME=5.8.43>Macduff is missing, and your noble son.</A><br>
5165 <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSS</b></a>
5167 <A NAME=5.8.44>Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:</A><br>
5168 <A NAME=5.8.45>He only lived but till he was a man;</A><br>
5169 <A NAME=5.8.46>The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd</A><br>
5170 <A NAME=5.8.47>In the unshrinking station where he fought,</A><br>
5171 <A NAME=5.8.48>But like a man he died.</A><br>
5174 <A NAME=speech14><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5176 <A NAME=5.8.49>Then he is dead?</A><br>
5179 <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSS</b></a>
5181 <A NAME=5.8.50>Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow</A><br>
5182 <A NAME=5.8.51>Must not be measured by his worth, for then</A><br>
5183 <A NAME=5.8.52>It hath no end.</A><br>
5186 <A NAME=speech16><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5188 <A NAME=5.8.53> Had he his hurts before?</A><br>
5191 <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSS</b></a>
5193 <A NAME=5.8.54>Ay, on the front.</A><br>
5196 <A NAME=speech18><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5198 <A NAME=5.8.55> Why then, God's soldier be he!</A><br>
5199 <A NAME=5.8.56>Had I as many sons as I have hairs,</A><br>
5200 <A NAME=5.8.57>I would not wish them to a fairer death:</A><br>
5201 <A NAME=5.8.58>And so, his knell is knoll'd.</A><br>
5204 <A NAME=speech19><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
5206 <A NAME=5.8.59>He's worth more sorrow,</A><br>
5207 <A NAME=5.8.60>And that I'll spend for him.</A><br>
5210 <A NAME=speech20><b>SIWARD</b></a>
5212 <A NAME=5.8.61>He's worth no more</A><br>
5213 <A NAME=5.8.62>They say he parted well, and paid his score:</A><br>
5214 <A NAME=5.8.63>And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.</A><br>
5215 <p><i>Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head</i></p>
5218 <A NAME=speech21><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
5220 <A NAME=5.8.64>Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands</A><br>
5221 <A NAME=5.8.65>The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:</A><br>
5222 <A NAME=5.8.66>I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,</A><br>
5223 <A NAME=5.8.67>That speak my salutation in their minds;</A><br>
5224 <A NAME=5.8.68>Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:</A><br>
5225 <A NAME=5.8.69>Hail, King of Scotland!</A><br>
5228 <A NAME=speech22><b>ALL</b></a>
5230 <A NAME=5.8.70>Hail, King of Scotland!</A><br>
5231 <p><i>Flourish</i></p>
5234 <A NAME=speech23><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
5236 <A NAME=5.8.71>We shall not spend a large expense of time</A><br>
5237 <A NAME=5.8.72>Before we reckon with your several loves,</A><br>
5238 <A NAME=5.8.73>And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,</A><br>
5239 <A NAME=5.8.74>Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland</A><br>
5240 <A NAME=5.8.75>In such an honour named. What's more to do,</A><br>
5241 <A NAME=5.8.76>Which would be planted newly with the time,</A><br>
5242 <A NAME=5.8.77>As calling home our exiled friends abroad</A><br>
5243 <A NAME=5.8.78>That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;</A><br>
5244 <A NAME=5.8.79>Producing forth the cruel ministers</A><br>
5245 <A NAME=5.8.80>Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,</A><br>
5246 <A NAME=5.8.81>Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands</A><br>
5247 <A NAME=5.8.82>Took off her life; this, and what needful else</A><br>
5248 <A NAME=5.8.83>That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,</A><br>
5249 <A NAME=5.8.84>We will perform in measure, time and place:</A><br>
5250 <A NAME=5.8.85>So, thanks to all at once and to each one,</A><br>
5251 <A NAME=5.8.86>Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.</A><br>
5252 <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p>
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