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  11. <H3>ACT I</h3>
  12. <h3>SCENE I. A desert place.</h3>
  13. <p><blockquote>
  14. <i>Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches</i>
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  16. <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
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  18. <A NAME=1.1.1>When shall we three meet again</A><br>
  19. <A NAME=1.1.2>In thunder, lightning, or in rain?</A><br>
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  21. <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
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  23. <A NAME=1.1.3>When the hurlyburly's done,</A><br>
  24. <A NAME=1.1.4>When the battle's lost and won.</A><br>
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  26. <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
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  28. <A NAME=1.1.5>That will be ere the set of sun.</A><br>
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  30. <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
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  32. <A NAME=1.1.6>Where the place?</A><br>
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  34. <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  35. <blockquote>
  36. <A NAME=1.1.7> Upon the heath.</A><br>
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  38. <A NAME=speech6><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  39. <blockquote>
  40. <A NAME=1.1.8>There to meet with Macbeth.</A><br>
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  42. <A NAME=speech7><b>First Witch</b></a>
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  44. <A NAME=1.1.9>I come, Graymalkin!</A><br>
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  46. <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Witch</b></a>
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  48. <A NAME=1.1.10>Paddock calls.</A><br>
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  50. <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  51. <blockquote>
  52. <A NAME=1.1.11>Anon.</A><br>
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  54. <A NAME=speech10><b>ALL</b></a>
  55. <blockquote>
  56. <A NAME=1.1.12>Fair is foul, and foul is fair:</A><br>
  57. <A NAME=1.1.13>Hover through the fog and filthy air.</A><br>
  58. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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  60. <h3>SCENE II. A camp near Forres.</h3>
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  62. <i>Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant</i>
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  64. <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  65. <blockquote>
  66. <A NAME=1.2.1>What bloody man is that? He can report,</A><br>
  67. <A NAME=1.2.2>As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt</A><br>
  68. <A NAME=1.2.3>The newest state.</A><br>
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  70. <A NAME=speech2><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  71. <blockquote>
  72. <A NAME=1.2.4> This is the sergeant</A><br>
  73. <A NAME=1.2.5>Who like a good and hardy soldier fought</A><br>
  74. <A NAME=1.2.6>'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!</A><br>
  75. <A NAME=1.2.7>Say to the king the knowledge of the broil</A><br>
  76. <A NAME=1.2.8>As thou didst leave it.</A><br>
  77. </blockquote>
  78. <A NAME=speech3><b>Sergeant</b></a>
  79. <blockquote>
  80. <A NAME=1.2.9>Doubtful it stood;</A><br>
  81. <A NAME=1.2.10>As two spent swimmers, that do cling together</A><br>
  82. <A NAME=1.2.11>And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--</A><br>
  83. <A NAME=1.2.12>Worthy to be a rebel, for to that</A><br>
  84. <A NAME=1.2.13>The multiplying villanies of nature</A><br>
  85. <A NAME=1.2.14>Do swarm upon him--from the western isles</A><br>
  86. <A NAME=1.2.15>Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;</A><br>
  87. <A NAME=1.2.16>And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,</A><br>
  88. <A NAME=1.2.17>Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:</A><br>
  89. <A NAME=1.2.18>For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--</A><br>
  90. <A NAME=1.2.19>Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,</A><br>
  91. <A NAME=1.2.20>Which smoked with bloody execution,</A><br>
  92. <A NAME=1.2.21>Like valour's minion carved out his passage</A><br>
  93. <A NAME=1.2.22>Till he faced the slave;</A><br>
  94. <A NAME=1.2.23>Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,</A><br>
  95. <A NAME=1.2.24>Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,</A><br>
  96. <A NAME=1.2.25>And fix'd his head upon our battlements.</A><br>
  97. </blockquote>
  98. <A NAME=speech4><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  99. <blockquote>
  100. <A NAME=1.2.26>O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!</A><br>
  101. </blockquote>
  102. <A NAME=speech5><b>Sergeant</b></a>
  103. <blockquote>
  104. <A NAME=1.2.27>As whence the sun 'gins his reflection</A><br>
  105. <A NAME=1.2.28>Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,</A><br>
  106. <A NAME=1.2.29>So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come</A><br>
  107. <A NAME=1.2.30>Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:</A><br>
  108. <A NAME=1.2.31>No sooner justice had with valour arm'd</A><br>
  109. <A NAME=1.2.32>Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,</A><br>
  110. <A NAME=1.2.33>But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,</A><br>
  111. <A NAME=1.2.34>With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men</A><br>
  112. <A NAME=1.2.35>Began a fresh assault.</A><br>
  113. </blockquote>
  114. <A NAME=speech6><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  115. <blockquote>
  116. <A NAME=1.2.36>Dismay'd not this</A><br>
  117. <A NAME=1.2.37>Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?</A><br>
  118. </blockquote>
  119. <A NAME=speech7><b>Sergeant</b></a>
  120. <blockquote>
  121. <A NAME=1.2.38>Yes;</A><br>
  122. <A NAME=1.2.39>As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.</A><br>
  123. <A NAME=1.2.40>If I say sooth, I must report they were</A><br>
  124. <A NAME=1.2.41>As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they</A><br>
  125. <A NAME=1.2.42>Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:</A><br>
  126. <A NAME=1.2.43>Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,</A><br>
  127. <A NAME=1.2.44>Or memorise another Golgotha,</A><br>
  128. <A NAME=1.2.45>I cannot tell.</A><br>
  129. <A NAME=1.2.46>But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.</A><br>
  130. </blockquote>
  131. <A NAME=speech8><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  132. <blockquote>
  133. <A NAME=1.2.47>So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;</A><br>
  134. <A NAME=1.2.48>They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.</A><br>
  135. <p><i>Exit Sergeant, attended</i></p>
  136. <A NAME=1.2.49>Who comes here?</A><br>
  137. <p><i>Enter ROSS</i></p>
  138. </blockquote>
  139. <A NAME=speech9><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  140. <blockquote>
  141. <A NAME=1.2.50> The worthy thane of Ross.</A><br>
  142. </blockquote>
  143. <A NAME=speech10><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  144. <blockquote>
  145. <A NAME=1.2.51>What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look</A><br>
  146. <A NAME=1.2.52>That seems to speak things strange.</A><br>
  147. </blockquote>
  148. <A NAME=speech11><b>ROSS</b></a>
  149. <blockquote>
  150. <A NAME=1.2.53>God save the king!</A><br>
  151. </blockquote>
  152. <A NAME=speech12><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  153. <blockquote>
  154. <A NAME=1.2.54>Whence camest thou, worthy thane?</A><br>
  155. </blockquote>
  156. <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSS</b></a>
  157. <blockquote>
  158. <A NAME=1.2.55>From Fife, great king;</A><br>
  159. <A NAME=1.2.56>Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky</A><br>
  160. <A NAME=1.2.57>And fan our people cold. Norway himself,</A><br>
  161. <A NAME=1.2.58>With terrible numbers,</A><br>
  162. <A NAME=1.2.59>Assisted by that most disloyal traitor</A><br>
  163. <A NAME=1.2.60>The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;</A><br>
  164. <A NAME=1.2.61>Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,</A><br>
  165. <A NAME=1.2.62>Confronted him with self-comparisons,</A><br>
  166. <A NAME=1.2.63>Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.</A><br>
  167. <A NAME=1.2.64>Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,</A><br>
  168. <A NAME=1.2.65>The victory fell on us.</A><br>
  169. </blockquote>
  170. <A NAME=speech14><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  171. <blockquote>
  172. <A NAME=1.2.66>Great happiness!</A><br>
  173. </blockquote>
  174. <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSS</b></a>
  175. <blockquote>
  176. <A NAME=1.2.67>That now</A><br>
  177. <A NAME=1.2.68>Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:</A><br>
  178. <A NAME=1.2.69>Nor would we deign him burial of his men</A><br>
  179. <A NAME=1.2.70>Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch</A><br>
  180. <A NAME=1.2.71>Ten thousand dollars to our general use.</A><br>
  181. </blockquote>
  182. <A NAME=speech16><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  183. <blockquote>
  184. <A NAME=1.2.72>No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive</A><br>
  185. <A NAME=1.2.73>Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,</A><br>
  186. <A NAME=1.2.74>And with his former title greet Macbeth.</A><br>
  187. </blockquote>
  188. <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSS</b></a>
  189. <blockquote>
  190. <A NAME=1.2.75>I'll see it done.</A><br>
  191. </blockquote>
  192. <A NAME=speech18><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  193. <blockquote>
  194. <A NAME=1.2.76>What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.</A><br>
  195. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  196. </blockquote>
  197. <h3>SCENE III. A heath near Forres.</h3>
  198. <p><blockquote>
  199. <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches</i>
  200. </blockquote>
  201. <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
  202. <blockquote>
  203. <A NAME=1.3.1>Where hast thou been, sister?</A><br>
  204. </blockquote>
  205. <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  206. <blockquote>
  207. <A NAME=1.3.2>Killing swine.</A><br>
  208. </blockquote>
  209. <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  210. <blockquote>
  211. <A NAME=1.3.3>Sister, where thou?</A><br>
  212. </blockquote>
  213. <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
  214. <blockquote>
  215. <A NAME=1.3.4>A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,</A><br>
  216. <A NAME=1.3.5>And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--</A><br>
  217. <A NAME=1.3.6>'Give me,' quoth I:</A><br>
  218. <A NAME=1.3.7>'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.</A><br>
  219. <A NAME=1.3.8>Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:</A><br>
  220. <A NAME=1.3.9>But in a sieve I'll thither sail,</A><br>
  221. <A NAME=1.3.10>And, like a rat without a tail,</A><br>
  222. <A NAME=1.3.11>I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.</A><br>
  223. </blockquote>
  224. <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  225. <blockquote>
  226. <A NAME=1.3.12>I'll give thee a wind.</A><br>
  227. </blockquote>
  228. <A NAME=speech6><b>First Witch</b></a>
  229. <blockquote>
  230. <A NAME=1.3.13>Thou'rt kind.</A><br>
  231. </blockquote>
  232. <A NAME=speech7><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  233. <blockquote>
  234. <A NAME=1.3.14>And I another.</A><br>
  235. </blockquote>
  236. <A NAME=speech8><b>First Witch</b></a>
  237. <blockquote>
  238. <A NAME=1.3.15>I myself have all the other,</A><br>
  239. <A NAME=1.3.16>And the very ports they blow,</A><br>
  240. <A NAME=1.3.17>All the quarters that they know</A><br>
  241. <A NAME=1.3.18>I' the shipman's card.</A><br>
  242. <A NAME=1.3.19>I will drain him dry as hay:</A><br>
  243. <A NAME=1.3.20>Sleep shall neither night nor day</A><br>
  244. <A NAME=1.3.21>Hang upon his pent-house lid;</A><br>
  245. <A NAME=1.3.22>He shall live a man forbid:</A><br>
  246. <A NAME=1.3.23>Weary se'nnights nine times nine</A><br>
  247. <A NAME=1.3.24>Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:</A><br>
  248. <A NAME=1.3.25>Though his bark cannot be lost,</A><br>
  249. <A NAME=1.3.26>Yet it shall be tempest-tost.</A><br>
  250. <A NAME=1.3.27>Look what I have.</A><br>
  251. </blockquote>
  252. <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  253. <blockquote>
  254. <A NAME=1.3.28>Show me, show me.</A><br>
  255. </blockquote>
  256. <A NAME=speech10><b>First Witch</b></a>
  257. <blockquote>
  258. <A NAME=1.3.29>Here I have a pilot's thumb,</A><br>
  259. <A NAME=1.3.30>Wreck'd as homeward he did come.</A><br>
  260. <p><i>Drum within</i></p>
  261. </blockquote>
  262. <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  263. <blockquote>
  264. <A NAME=1.3.31>A drum, a drum!</A><br>
  265. <A NAME=1.3.32>Macbeth doth come.</A><br>
  266. </blockquote>
  267. <A NAME=speech12><b>ALL</b></a>
  268. <blockquote>
  269. <A NAME=1.3.33>The weird sisters, hand in hand,</A><br>
  270. <A NAME=1.3.34>Posters of the sea and land,</A><br>
  271. <A NAME=1.3.35>Thus do go about, about:</A><br>
  272. <A NAME=1.3.36>Thrice to thine and thrice to mine</A><br>
  273. <A NAME=1.3.37>And thrice again, to make up nine.</A><br>
  274. <A NAME=1.3.38>Peace! the charm's wound up.</A><br>
  275. <p><i>Enter MACBETH and BANQUO</i></p>
  276. </blockquote>
  277. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  278. <blockquote>
  279. <A NAME=1.3.39>So foul and fair a day I have not seen.</A><br>
  280. </blockquote>
  281. <A NAME=speech14><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  282. <blockquote>
  283. <A NAME=1.3.40>How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these</A><br>
  284. <A NAME=1.3.41>So wither'd and so wild in their attire,</A><br>
  285. <A NAME=1.3.42>That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,</A><br>
  286. <A NAME=1.3.43>And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught</A><br>
  287. <A NAME=1.3.44>That man may question? You seem to understand me,</A><br>
  288. <A NAME=1.3.45>By each at once her chappy finger laying</A><br>
  289. <A NAME=1.3.46>Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,</A><br>
  290. <A NAME=1.3.47>And yet your beards forbid me to interpret</A><br>
  291. <A NAME=1.3.48>That you are so.</A><br>
  292. </blockquote>
  293. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  294. <blockquote>
  295. <A NAME=1.3.49> Speak, if you can: what are you?</A><br>
  296. </blockquote>
  297. <A NAME=speech16><b>First Witch</b></a>
  298. <blockquote>
  299. <A NAME=1.3.50>All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!</A><br>
  300. </blockquote>
  301. <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  302. <blockquote>
  303. <A NAME=1.3.51>All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!</A><br>
  304. </blockquote>
  305. <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  306. <blockquote>
  307. <A NAME=1.3.52>All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!</A><br>
  308. </blockquote>
  309. <A NAME=speech19><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  310. <blockquote>
  311. <A NAME=1.3.53>Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear</A><br>
  312. <A NAME=1.3.54>Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,</A><br>
  313. <A NAME=1.3.55>Are ye fantastical, or that indeed</A><br>
  314. <A NAME=1.3.56>Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner</A><br>
  315. <A NAME=1.3.57>You greet with present grace and great prediction</A><br>
  316. <A NAME=1.3.58>Of noble having and of royal hope,</A><br>
  317. <A NAME=1.3.59>That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.</A><br>
  318. <A NAME=1.3.60>If you can look into the seeds of time,</A><br>
  319. <A NAME=1.3.61>And say which grain will grow and which will not,</A><br>
  320. <A NAME=1.3.62>Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear</A><br>
  321. <A NAME=1.3.63>Your favours nor your hate.</A><br>
  322. </blockquote>
  323. <A NAME=speech20><b>First Witch</b></a>
  324. <blockquote>
  325. <A NAME=1.3.64>Hail!</A><br>
  326. </blockquote>
  327. <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  328. <blockquote>
  329. <A NAME=1.3.65>Hail!</A><br>
  330. </blockquote>
  331. <A NAME=speech22><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  332. <blockquote>
  333. <A NAME=1.3.66>Hail!</A><br>
  334. </blockquote>
  335. <A NAME=speech23><b>First Witch</b></a>
  336. <blockquote>
  337. <A NAME=1.3.67>Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.</A><br>
  338. </blockquote>
  339. <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  340. <blockquote>
  341. <A NAME=1.3.68>Not so happy, yet much happier.</A><br>
  342. </blockquote>
  343. <A NAME=speech25><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  344. <blockquote>
  345. <A NAME=1.3.69>Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:</A><br>
  346. <A NAME=1.3.70>So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!</A><br>
  347. </blockquote>
  348. <A NAME=speech26><b>First Witch</b></a>
  349. <blockquote>
  350. <A NAME=1.3.71>Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!</A><br>
  351. </blockquote>
  352. <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  353. <blockquote>
  354. <A NAME=1.3.72>Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:</A><br>
  355. <A NAME=1.3.73>By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;</A><br>
  356. <A NAME=1.3.74>But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,</A><br>
  357. <A NAME=1.3.75>A prosperous gentleman; and to be king</A><br>
  358. <A NAME=1.3.76>Stands not within the prospect of belief,</A><br>
  359. <A NAME=1.3.77>No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence</A><br>
  360. <A NAME=1.3.78>You owe this strange intelligence? or why</A><br>
  361. <A NAME=1.3.79>Upon this blasted heath you stop our way</A><br>
  362. <A NAME=1.3.80>With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.</A><br>
  363. <p><i>Witches vanish</i></p>
  364. </blockquote>
  365. <A NAME=speech28><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  366. <blockquote>
  367. <A NAME=1.3.81>The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,</A><br>
  368. <A NAME=1.3.82>And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?</A><br>
  369. </blockquote>
  370. <A NAME=speech29><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  371. <blockquote>
  372. <A NAME=1.3.83>Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted</A><br>
  373. <A NAME=1.3.84>As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!</A><br>
  374. </blockquote>
  375. <A NAME=speech30><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  376. <blockquote>
  377. <A NAME=1.3.85>Were such things here as we do speak about?</A><br>
  378. <A NAME=1.3.86>Or have we eaten on the insane root</A><br>
  379. <A NAME=1.3.87>That takes the reason prisoner?</A><br>
  380. </blockquote>
  381. <A NAME=speech31><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  382. <blockquote>
  383. <A NAME=1.3.88>Your children shall be kings.</A><br>
  384. </blockquote>
  385. <A NAME=speech32><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  386. <blockquote>
  387. <A NAME=1.3.89>You shall be king.</A><br>
  388. </blockquote>
  389. <A NAME=speech33><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  390. <blockquote>
  391. <A NAME=1.3.90>And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?</A><br>
  392. </blockquote>
  393. <A NAME=speech34><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  394. <blockquote>
  395. <A NAME=1.3.91>To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?</A><br>
  396. <p><i>Enter ROSS and ANGUS</i></p>
  397. </blockquote>
  398. <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSS</b></a>
  399. <blockquote>
  400. <A NAME=1.3.92>The king hath happily received, Macbeth,</A><br>
  401. <A NAME=1.3.93>The news of thy success; and when he reads</A><br>
  402. <A NAME=1.3.94>Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,</A><br>
  403. <A NAME=1.3.95>His wonders and his praises do contend</A><br>
  404. <A NAME=1.3.96>Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,</A><br>
  405. <A NAME=1.3.97>In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,</A><br>
  406. <A NAME=1.3.98>He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,</A><br>
  407. <A NAME=1.3.99>Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,</A><br>
  408. <A NAME=1.3.100>Strange images of death. As thick as hail</A><br>
  409. <A NAME=1.3.101>Came post with post; and every one did bear</A><br>
  410. <A NAME=1.3.102>Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,</A><br>
  411. <A NAME=1.3.103>And pour'd them down before him.</A><br>
  412. </blockquote>
  413. <A NAME=speech36><b>ANGUS</b></a>
  414. <blockquote>
  415. <A NAME=1.3.104>We are sent</A><br>
  416. <A NAME=1.3.105>To give thee from our royal master thanks;</A><br>
  417. <A NAME=1.3.106>Only to herald thee into his sight,</A><br>
  418. <A NAME=1.3.107>Not pay thee.</A><br>
  419. </blockquote>
  420. <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSS</b></a>
  421. <blockquote>
  422. <A NAME=1.3.108>And, for an earnest of a greater honour,</A><br>
  423. <A NAME=1.3.109>He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:</A><br>
  424. <A NAME=1.3.110>In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!</A><br>
  425. <A NAME=1.3.111>For it is thine.</A><br>
  426. </blockquote>
  427. <A NAME=speech38><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  428. <blockquote>
  429. <A NAME=1.3.112> What, can the devil speak true?</A><br>
  430. </blockquote>
  431. <A NAME=speech39><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  432. <blockquote>
  433. <A NAME=1.3.113>The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me</A><br>
  434. <A NAME=1.3.114>In borrow'd robes?</A><br>
  435. </blockquote>
  436. <A NAME=speech40><b>ANGUS</b></a>
  437. <blockquote>
  438. <A NAME=1.3.115> Who was the thane lives yet;</A><br>
  439. <A NAME=1.3.116>But under heavy judgment bears that life</A><br>
  440. <A NAME=1.3.117>Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined</A><br>
  441. <A NAME=1.3.118>With those of Norway, or did line the rebel</A><br>
  442. <A NAME=1.3.119>With hidden help and vantage, or that with both</A><br>
  443. <A NAME=1.3.120>He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;</A><br>
  444. <A NAME=1.3.121>But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,</A><br>
  445. <A NAME=1.3.122>Have overthrown him.</A><br>
  446. </blockquote>
  447. <A NAME=speech41><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  448. <blockquote>
  449. <A NAME=1.3.123>[Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!</A><br>
  450. <A NAME=1.3.124>The greatest is behind.</A><br>
  451. <p><i>To ROSS and ANGUS</i></p>
  452. <A NAME=1.3.125>Thanks for your pains.</A><br>
  453. <p><i>To BANQUO</i></p>
  454. <A NAME=1.3.126>Do you not hope your children shall be kings,</A><br>
  455. <A NAME=1.3.127>When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me</A><br>
  456. <A NAME=1.3.128>Promised no less to them?</A><br>
  457. </blockquote>
  458. <A NAME=speech42><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  459. <blockquote>
  460. <A NAME=1.3.129>That trusted home</A><br>
  461. <A NAME=1.3.130>Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,</A><br>
  462. <A NAME=1.3.131>Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:</A><br>
  463. <A NAME=1.3.132>And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,</A><br>
  464. <A NAME=1.3.133>The instruments of darkness tell us truths,</A><br>
  465. <A NAME=1.3.134>Win us with honest trifles, to betray's</A><br>
  466. <A NAME=1.3.135>In deepest consequence.</A><br>
  467. <A NAME=1.3.136>Cousins, a word, I pray you.</A><br>
  468. </blockquote>
  469. <A NAME=speech43><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  470. <blockquote>
  471. <A NAME=1.3.137>[Aside] Two truths are told,</A><br>
  472. <A NAME=1.3.138>As happy prologues to the swelling act</A><br>
  473. <A NAME=1.3.139>Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.</A><br>
  474. <p><i>Aside</i></p>
  475. <A NAME=1.3.140>Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,</A><br>
  476. <A NAME=1.3.141>Why hath it given me earnest of success,</A><br>
  477. <A NAME=1.3.142>Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:</A><br>
  478. <A NAME=1.3.143>If good, why do I yield to that suggestion</A><br>
  479. <A NAME=1.3.144>Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair</A><br>
  480. <A NAME=1.3.145>And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,</A><br>
  481. <A NAME=1.3.146>Against the use of nature? Present fears</A><br>
  482. <A NAME=1.3.147>Are less than horrible imaginings:</A><br>
  483. <A NAME=1.3.148>My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,</A><br>
  484. <A NAME=1.3.149>Shakes so my single state of man that function</A><br>
  485. <A NAME=1.3.150>Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is</A><br>
  486. <A NAME=1.3.151>But what is not.</A><br>
  487. </blockquote>
  488. <A NAME=speech44><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  489. <blockquote>
  490. <A NAME=1.3.152> Look, how our partner's rapt.</A><br>
  491. </blockquote>
  492. <A NAME=speech45><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  493. <blockquote>
  494. <A NAME=1.3.153>[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,</A><br>
  495. <A NAME=1.3.154>Without my stir.</A><br>
  496. </blockquote>
  497. <A NAME=speech46><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  498. <blockquote>
  499. <A NAME=1.3.155> New horrors come upon him,</A><br>
  500. <A NAME=1.3.156>Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould</A><br>
  501. <A NAME=1.3.157>But with the aid of use.</A><br>
  502. </blockquote>
  503. <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  504. <blockquote>
  505. <A NAME=1.3.158>[Aside] Come what come may,</A><br>
  506. <A NAME=1.3.159>Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.</A><br>
  507. </blockquote>
  508. <A NAME=speech48><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  509. <blockquote>
  510. <A NAME=1.3.160>Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.</A><br>
  511. </blockquote>
  512. <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  513. <blockquote>
  514. <A NAME=1.3.161>Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought</A><br>
  515. <A NAME=1.3.162>With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains</A><br>
  516. <A NAME=1.3.163>Are register'd where every day I turn</A><br>
  517. <A NAME=1.3.164>The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.</A><br>
  518. <A NAME=1.3.165>Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,</A><br>
  519. <A NAME=1.3.166>The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak</A><br>
  520. <A NAME=1.3.167>Our free hearts each to other.</A><br>
  521. </blockquote>
  522. <A NAME=speech50><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  523. <blockquote>
  524. <A NAME=1.3.168>Very gladly.</A><br>
  525. </blockquote>
  526. <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  527. <blockquote>
  528. <A NAME=1.3.169>Till then, enough. Come, friends.</A><br>
  529. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  530. </blockquote>
  531. <h3>SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.</h3>
  532. <p><blockquote>
  533. <i>Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants</i>
  534. </blockquote>
  535. <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  536. <blockquote>
  537. <A NAME=1.4.1>Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not</A><br>
  538. <A NAME=1.4.2>Those in commission yet return'd?</A><br>
  539. </blockquote>
  540. <A NAME=speech2><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  541. <blockquote>
  542. <A NAME=1.4.3>My liege,</A><br>
  543. <A NAME=1.4.4>They are not yet come back. But I have spoke</A><br>
  544. <A NAME=1.4.5>With one that saw him die: who did report</A><br>
  545. <A NAME=1.4.6>That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,</A><br>
  546. <A NAME=1.4.7>Implored your highness' pardon and set forth</A><br>
  547. <A NAME=1.4.8>A deep repentance: nothing in his life</A><br>
  548. <A NAME=1.4.9>Became him like the leaving it; he died</A><br>
  549. <A NAME=1.4.10>As one that had been studied in his death</A><br>
  550. <A NAME=1.4.11>To throw away the dearest thing he owed,</A><br>
  551. <A NAME=1.4.12>As 'twere a careless trifle.</A><br>
  552. </blockquote>
  553. <A NAME=speech3><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  554. <blockquote>
  555. <A NAME=1.4.13>There's no art</A><br>
  556. <A NAME=1.4.14>To find the mind's construction in the face:</A><br>
  557. <A NAME=1.4.15>He was a gentleman on whom I built</A><br>
  558. <A NAME=1.4.16>An absolute trust.</A><br>
  559. <p><i>Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS</i></p>
  560. <A NAME=1.4.17>O worthiest cousin!</A><br>
  561. <A NAME=1.4.18>The sin of my ingratitude even now</A><br>
  562. <A NAME=1.4.19>Was heavy on me: thou art so far before</A><br>
  563. <A NAME=1.4.20>That swiftest wing of recompense is slow</A><br>
  564. <A NAME=1.4.21>To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,</A><br>
  565. <A NAME=1.4.22>That the proportion both of thanks and payment</A><br>
  566. <A NAME=1.4.23>Might have been mine! only I have left to say,</A><br>
  567. <A NAME=1.4.24>More is thy due than more than all can pay.</A><br>
  568. </blockquote>
  569. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  570. <blockquote>
  571. <A NAME=1.4.25>The service and the loyalty I owe,</A><br>
  572. <A NAME=1.4.26>In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part</A><br>
  573. <A NAME=1.4.27>Is to receive our duties; and our duties</A><br>
  574. <A NAME=1.4.28>Are to your throne and state children and servants,</A><br>
  575. <A NAME=1.4.29>Which do but what they should, by doing every thing</A><br>
  576. <A NAME=1.4.30>Safe toward your love and honour.</A><br>
  577. </blockquote>
  578. <A NAME=speech5><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  579. <blockquote>
  580. <A NAME=1.4.31>Welcome hither:</A><br>
  581. <A NAME=1.4.32>I have begun to plant thee, and will labour</A><br>
  582. <A NAME=1.4.33>To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,</A><br>
  583. <A NAME=1.4.34>That hast no less deserved, nor must be known</A><br>
  584. <A NAME=1.4.35>No less to have done so, let me enfold thee</A><br>
  585. <A NAME=1.4.36>And hold thee to my heart.</A><br>
  586. </blockquote>
  587. <A NAME=speech6><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  588. <blockquote>
  589. <A NAME=1.4.37>There if I grow,</A><br>
  590. <A NAME=1.4.38>The harvest is your own.</A><br>
  591. </blockquote>
  592. <A NAME=speech7><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  593. <blockquote>
  594. <A NAME=1.4.39>My plenteous joys,</A><br>
  595. <A NAME=1.4.40>Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves</A><br>
  596. <A NAME=1.4.41>In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,</A><br>
  597. <A NAME=1.4.42>And you whose places are the nearest, know</A><br>
  598. <A NAME=1.4.43>We will establish our estate upon</A><br>
  599. <A NAME=1.4.44>Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter</A><br>
  600. <A NAME=1.4.45>The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must</A><br>
  601. <A NAME=1.4.46>Not unaccompanied invest him only,</A><br>
  602. <A NAME=1.4.47>But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine</A><br>
  603. <A NAME=1.4.48>On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,</A><br>
  604. <A NAME=1.4.49>And bind us further to you.</A><br>
  605. </blockquote>
  606. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  607. <blockquote>
  608. <A NAME=1.4.50>The rest is labour, which is not used for you:</A><br>
  609. <A NAME=1.4.51>I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful</A><br>
  610. <A NAME=1.4.52>The hearing of my wife with your approach;</A><br>
  611. <A NAME=1.4.53>So humbly take my leave.</A><br>
  612. </blockquote>
  613. <A NAME=speech9><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  614. <blockquote>
  615. <A NAME=1.4.54>My worthy Cawdor!</A><br>
  616. </blockquote>
  617. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  618. <blockquote>
  619. <A NAME=1.4.55>[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step</A><br>
  620. <A NAME=1.4.56>On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,</A><br>
  621. <A NAME=1.4.57>For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;</A><br>
  622. <A NAME=1.4.58>Let not light see my black and deep desires:</A><br>
  623. <A NAME=1.4.59>The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,</A><br>
  624. <A NAME=1.4.60>Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.</A><br>
  625. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  626. </blockquote>
  627. <A NAME=speech11><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  628. <blockquote>
  629. <A NAME=1.4.61>True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,</A><br>
  630. <A NAME=1.4.62>And in his commendations I am fed;</A><br>
  631. <A NAME=1.4.63>It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,</A><br>
  632. <A NAME=1.4.64>Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:</A><br>
  633. <A NAME=1.4.65>It is a peerless kinsman.</A><br>
  634. <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p>
  635. </blockquote>
  636. <h3>SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.</h3>
  637. <p><blockquote>
  638. <i>Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter</i>
  639. </blockquote>
  640. <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  641. <blockquote>
  642. <A NAME=1.5.1>'They met me in the day of success: and I have</A><br>
  643. <A NAME=1.5.2>learned by the perfectest report, they have more in</A><br>
  644. <A NAME=1.5.3>them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire</A><br>
  645. <A NAME=1.5.4>to question them further, they made themselves air,</A><br>
  646. <A NAME=1.5.5>into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in</A><br>
  647. <A NAME=1.5.6>the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who</A><br>
  648. <A NAME=1.5.7>all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,</A><br>
  649. <A NAME=1.5.8>before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred</A><br>
  650. <A NAME=1.5.9>me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that</A><br>
  651. <A NAME=1.5.10>shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver</A><br>
  652. <A NAME=1.5.11>thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou</A><br>
  653. <A NAME=1.5.12>mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being</A><br>
  654. <A NAME=1.5.13>ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it</A><br>
  655. <A NAME=1.5.14>to thy heart, and farewell.'</A><br>
  656. <A NAME=1.5.15>Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be</A><br>
  657. <A NAME=1.5.16>What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;</A><br>
  658. <A NAME=1.5.17>It is too full o' the milk of human kindness</A><br>
  659. <A NAME=1.5.18>To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;</A><br>
  660. <A NAME=1.5.19>Art not without ambition, but without</A><br>
  661. <A NAME=1.5.20>The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,</A><br>
  662. <A NAME=1.5.21>That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,</A><br>
  663. <A NAME=1.5.22>And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,</A><br>
  664. <A NAME=1.5.23>That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;</A><br>
  665. <A NAME=1.5.24>And that which rather thou dost fear to do</A><br>
  666. <A NAME=1.5.25>Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,</A><br>
  667. <A NAME=1.5.26>That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;</A><br>
  668. <A NAME=1.5.27>And chastise with the valour of my tongue</A><br>
  669. <A NAME=1.5.28>All that impedes thee from the golden round,</A><br>
  670. <A NAME=1.5.29>Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem</A><br>
  671. <A NAME=1.5.30>To have thee crown'd withal.</A><br>
  672. <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
  673. <A NAME=1.5.31>What is your tidings?</A><br>
  674. </blockquote>
  675. <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a>
  676. <blockquote>
  677. <A NAME=1.5.32>The king comes here to-night.</A><br>
  678. </blockquote>
  679. <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  680. <blockquote>
  681. <A NAME=1.5.33>Thou'rt mad to say it:</A><br>
  682. <A NAME=1.5.34>Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,</A><br>
  683. <A NAME=1.5.35>Would have inform'd for preparation.</A><br>
  684. </blockquote>
  685. <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a>
  686. <blockquote>
  687. <A NAME=1.5.36>So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:</A><br>
  688. <A NAME=1.5.37>One of my fellows had the speed of him,</A><br>
  689. <A NAME=1.5.38>Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more</A><br>
  690. <A NAME=1.5.39>Than would make up his message.</A><br>
  691. </blockquote>
  692. <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  693. <blockquote>
  694. <A NAME=1.5.40>Give him tending;</A><br>
  695. <A NAME=1.5.41>He brings great news.</A><br>
  696. <p><i>Exit Messenger</i></p>
  697. <A NAME=1.5.42>The raven himself is hoarse</A><br>
  698. <A NAME=1.5.43>That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan</A><br>
  699. <A NAME=1.5.44>Under my battlements. Come, you spirits</A><br>
  700. <A NAME=1.5.45>That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,</A><br>
  701. <A NAME=1.5.46>And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full</A><br>
  702. <A NAME=1.5.47>Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;</A><br>
  703. <A NAME=1.5.48>Stop up the access and passage to remorse,</A><br>
  704. <A NAME=1.5.49>That no compunctious visitings of nature</A><br>
  705. <A NAME=1.5.50>Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between</A><br>
  706. <A NAME=1.5.51>The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,</A><br>
  707. <A NAME=1.5.52>And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,</A><br>
  708. <A NAME=1.5.53>Wherever in your sightless substances</A><br>
  709. <A NAME=1.5.54>You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,</A><br>
  710. <A NAME=1.5.55>And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,</A><br>
  711. <A NAME=1.5.56>That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,</A><br>
  712. <A NAME=1.5.57>Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,</A><br>
  713. <A NAME=1.5.58>To cry 'Hold, hold!'</A><br>
  714. <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
  715. <A NAME=1.5.59>Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!</A><br>
  716. <A NAME=1.5.60>Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!</A><br>
  717. <A NAME=1.5.61>Thy letters have transported me beyond</A><br>
  718. <A NAME=1.5.62>This ignorant present, and I feel now</A><br>
  719. <A NAME=1.5.63>The future in the instant.</A><br>
  720. </blockquote>
  721. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  722. <blockquote>
  723. <A NAME=1.5.64>My dearest love,</A><br>
  724. <A NAME=1.5.65>Duncan comes here to-night.</A><br>
  725. </blockquote>
  726. <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  727. <blockquote>
  728. <A NAME=1.5.66>And when goes hence?</A><br>
  729. </blockquote>
  730. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  731. <blockquote>
  732. <A NAME=1.5.67>To-morrow, as he purposes.</A><br>
  733. </blockquote>
  734. <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  735. <blockquote>
  736. <A NAME=1.5.68>O, never</A><br>
  737. <A NAME=1.5.69>Shall sun that morrow see!</A><br>
  738. <A NAME=1.5.70>Your face, my thane, is as a book where men</A><br>
  739. <A NAME=1.5.71>May read strange matters. To beguile the time,</A><br>
  740. <A NAME=1.5.72>Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,</A><br>
  741. <A NAME=1.5.73>Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,</A><br>
  742. <A NAME=1.5.74>But be the serpent under't. He that's coming</A><br>
  743. <A NAME=1.5.75>Must be provided for: and you shall put</A><br>
  744. <A NAME=1.5.76>This night's great business into my dispatch;</A><br>
  745. <A NAME=1.5.77>Which shall to all our nights and days to come</A><br>
  746. <A NAME=1.5.78>Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.</A><br>
  747. </blockquote>
  748. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  749. <blockquote>
  750. <A NAME=1.5.79>We will speak further.</A><br>
  751. </blockquote>
  752. <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  753. <blockquote>
  754. <A NAME=1.5.80>Only look up clear;</A><br>
  755. <A NAME=1.5.81>To alter favour ever is to fear:</A><br>
  756. <A NAME=1.5.82>Leave all the rest to me.</A><br>
  757. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  758. </blockquote>
  759. <h3>SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.</h3>
  760. <p><blockquote>
  761. <i>Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants</i>
  762. </blockquote>
  763. <A NAME=speech1><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  764. <blockquote>
  765. <A NAME=1.6.1>This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air</A><br>
  766. <A NAME=1.6.2>Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself</A><br>
  767. <A NAME=1.6.3>Unto our gentle senses.</A><br>
  768. </blockquote>
  769. <A NAME=speech2><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  770. <blockquote>
  771. <A NAME=1.6.4>This guest of summer,</A><br>
  772. <A NAME=1.6.5>The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,</A><br>
  773. <A NAME=1.6.6>By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath</A><br>
  774. <A NAME=1.6.7>Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,</A><br>
  775. <A NAME=1.6.8>Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird</A><br>
  776. <A NAME=1.6.9>Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:</A><br>
  777. <A NAME=1.6.10>Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,</A><br>
  778. <A NAME=1.6.11>The air is delicate.</A><br>
  779. <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
  780. </blockquote>
  781. <A NAME=speech3><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  782. <blockquote>
  783. <A NAME=1.6.12>See, see, our honour'd hostess!</A><br>
  784. <A NAME=1.6.13>The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,</A><br>
  785. <A NAME=1.6.14>Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you</A><br>
  786. <A NAME=1.6.15>How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,</A><br>
  787. <A NAME=1.6.16>And thank us for your trouble.</A><br>
  788. </blockquote>
  789. <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  790. <blockquote>
  791. <A NAME=1.6.17>All our service</A><br>
  792. <A NAME=1.6.18>In every point twice done and then done double</A><br>
  793. <A NAME=1.6.19>Were poor and single business to contend</A><br>
  794. <A NAME=1.6.20>Against those honours deep and broad wherewith</A><br>
  795. <A NAME=1.6.21>Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,</A><br>
  796. <A NAME=1.6.22>And the late dignities heap'd up to them,</A><br>
  797. <A NAME=1.6.23>We rest your hermits.</A><br>
  798. </blockquote>
  799. <A NAME=speech5><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  800. <blockquote>
  801. <A NAME=1.6.24>Where's the thane of Cawdor?</A><br>
  802. <A NAME=1.6.25>We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose</A><br>
  803. <A NAME=1.6.26>To be his purveyor: but he rides well;</A><br>
  804. <A NAME=1.6.27>And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him</A><br>
  805. <A NAME=1.6.28>To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,</A><br>
  806. <A NAME=1.6.29>We are your guest to-night.</A><br>
  807. </blockquote>
  808. <A NAME=speech6><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  809. <blockquote>
  810. <A NAME=1.6.30>Your servants ever</A><br>
  811. <A NAME=1.6.31>Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,</A><br>
  812. <A NAME=1.6.32>To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,</A><br>
  813. <A NAME=1.6.33>Still to return your own.</A><br>
  814. </blockquote>
  815. <A NAME=speech7><b>DUNCAN</b></a>
  816. <blockquote>
  817. <A NAME=1.6.34>Give me your hand;</A><br>
  818. <A NAME=1.6.35>Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,</A><br>
  819. <A NAME=1.6.36>And shall continue our graces towards him.</A><br>
  820. <A NAME=1.6.37>By your leave, hostess.</A><br>
  821. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  822. </blockquote>
  823. <h3>SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.</h3>
  824. <p><blockquote>
  825. <i>Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH</i>
  826. </blockquote>
  827. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  828. <blockquote>
  829. <A NAME=1.7.1>If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well</A><br>
  830. <A NAME=1.7.2>It were done quickly: if the assassination</A><br>
  831. <A NAME=1.7.3>Could trammel up the consequence, and catch</A><br>
  832. <A NAME=1.7.4>With his surcease success; that but this blow</A><br>
  833. <A NAME=1.7.5>Might be the be-all and the end-all here,</A><br>
  834. <A NAME=1.7.6>But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,</A><br>
  835. <A NAME=1.7.7>We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases</A><br>
  836. <A NAME=1.7.8>We still have judgment here; that we but teach</A><br>
  837. <A NAME=1.7.9>Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return</A><br>
  838. <A NAME=1.7.10>To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice</A><br>
  839. <A NAME=1.7.11>Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice</A><br>
  840. <A NAME=1.7.12>To our own lips. He's here in double trust;</A><br>
  841. <A NAME=1.7.13>First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,</A><br>
  842. <A NAME=1.7.14>Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,</A><br>
  843. <A NAME=1.7.15>Who should against his murderer shut the door,</A><br>
  844. <A NAME=1.7.16>Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan</A><br>
  845. <A NAME=1.7.17>Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been</A><br>
  846. <A NAME=1.7.18>So clear in his great office, that his virtues</A><br>
  847. <A NAME=1.7.19>Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against</A><br>
  848. <A NAME=1.7.20>The deep damnation of his taking-off;</A><br>
  849. <A NAME=1.7.21>And pity, like a naked new-born babe,</A><br>
  850. <A NAME=1.7.22>Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed</A><br>
  851. <A NAME=1.7.23>Upon the sightless couriers of the air,</A><br>
  852. <A NAME=1.7.24>Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,</A><br>
  853. <A NAME=1.7.25>That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur</A><br>
  854. <A NAME=1.7.26>To prick the sides of my intent, but only</A><br>
  855. <A NAME=1.7.27>Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself</A><br>
  856. <A NAME=1.7.28>And falls on the other.</A><br>
  857. <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
  858. <A NAME=1.7.29>How now! what news?</A><br>
  859. </blockquote>
  860. <A NAME=speech2><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  861. <blockquote>
  862. <A NAME=1.7.30>He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?</A><br>
  863. </blockquote>
  864. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  865. <blockquote>
  866. <A NAME=1.7.31>Hath he ask'd for me?</A><br>
  867. </blockquote>
  868. <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  869. <blockquote>
  870. <A NAME=1.7.32>Know you not he has?</A><br>
  871. </blockquote>
  872. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  873. <blockquote>
  874. <A NAME=1.7.33>We will proceed no further in this business:</A><br>
  875. <A NAME=1.7.34>He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought</A><br>
  876. <A NAME=1.7.35>Golden opinions from all sorts of people,</A><br>
  877. <A NAME=1.7.36>Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,</A><br>
  878. <A NAME=1.7.37>Not cast aside so soon.</A><br>
  879. </blockquote>
  880. <A NAME=speech6><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  881. <blockquote>
  882. <A NAME=1.7.38>Was the hope drunk</A><br>
  883. <A NAME=1.7.39>Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?</A><br>
  884. <A NAME=1.7.40>And wakes it now, to look so green and pale</A><br>
  885. <A NAME=1.7.41>At what it did so freely? From this time</A><br>
  886. <A NAME=1.7.42>Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard</A><br>
  887. <A NAME=1.7.43>To be the same in thine own act and valour</A><br>
  888. <A NAME=1.7.44>As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that</A><br>
  889. <A NAME=1.7.45>Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,</A><br>
  890. <A NAME=1.7.46>And live a coward in thine own esteem,</A><br>
  891. <A NAME=1.7.47>Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'</A><br>
  892. <A NAME=1.7.48>Like the poor cat i' the adage?</A><br>
  893. </blockquote>
  894. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  895. <blockquote>
  896. <A NAME=1.7.49>Prithee, peace:</A><br>
  897. <A NAME=1.7.50>I dare do all that may become a man;</A><br>
  898. <A NAME=1.7.51>Who dares do more is none.</A><br>
  899. </blockquote>
  900. <A NAME=speech8><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  901. <blockquote>
  902. <A NAME=1.7.52>What beast was't, then,</A><br>
  903. <A NAME=1.7.53>That made you break this enterprise to me?</A><br>
  904. <A NAME=1.7.54>When you durst do it, then you were a man;</A><br>
  905. <A NAME=1.7.55>And, to be more than what you were, you would</A><br>
  906. <A NAME=1.7.56>Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place</A><br>
  907. <A NAME=1.7.57>Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:</A><br>
  908. <A NAME=1.7.58>They have made themselves, and that their fitness now</A><br>
  909. <A NAME=1.7.59>Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know</A><br>
  910. <A NAME=1.7.60>How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:</A><br>
  911. <A NAME=1.7.61>I would, while it was smiling in my face,</A><br>
  912. <A NAME=1.7.62>Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,</A><br>
  913. <A NAME=1.7.63>And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you</A><br>
  914. <A NAME=1.7.64>Have done to this.</A><br>
  915. </blockquote>
  916. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  917. <blockquote>
  918. <A NAME=1.7.65> If we should fail?</A><br>
  919. </blockquote>
  920. <A NAME=speech10><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  921. <blockquote>
  922. <A NAME=1.7.66>We fail!</A><br>
  923. <A NAME=1.7.67>But screw your courage to the sticking-place,</A><br>
  924. <A NAME=1.7.68>And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--</A><br>
  925. <A NAME=1.7.69>Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey</A><br>
  926. <A NAME=1.7.70>Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains</A><br>
  927. <A NAME=1.7.71>Will I with wine and wassail so convince</A><br>
  928. <A NAME=1.7.72>That memory, the warder of the brain,</A><br>
  929. <A NAME=1.7.73>Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason</A><br>
  930. <A NAME=1.7.74>A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep</A><br>
  931. <A NAME=1.7.75>Their drenched natures lie as in a death,</A><br>
  932. <A NAME=1.7.76>What cannot you and I perform upon</A><br>
  933. <A NAME=1.7.77>The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon</A><br>
  934. <A NAME=1.7.78>His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt</A><br>
  935. <A NAME=1.7.79>Of our great quell?</A><br>
  936. </blockquote>
  937. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  938. <blockquote>
  939. <A NAME=1.7.80>Bring forth men-children only;</A><br>
  940. <A NAME=1.7.81>For thy undaunted mettle should compose</A><br>
  941. <A NAME=1.7.82>Nothing but males. Will it not be received,</A><br>
  942. <A NAME=1.7.83>When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two</A><br>
  943. <A NAME=1.7.84>Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,</A><br>
  944. <A NAME=1.7.85>That they have done't?</A><br>
  945. </blockquote>
  946. <A NAME=speech12><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  947. <blockquote>
  948. <A NAME=1.7.86>Who dares receive it other,</A><br>
  949. <A NAME=1.7.87>As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar</A><br>
  950. <A NAME=1.7.88>Upon his death?</A><br>
  951. </blockquote>
  952. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  953. <blockquote>
  954. <A NAME=1.7.89> I am settled, and bend up</A><br>
  955. <A NAME=1.7.90>Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.</A><br>
  956. <A NAME=1.7.91>Away, and mock the time with fairest show:</A><br>
  957. <A NAME=1.7.92>False face must hide what the false heart doth know.</A><br>
  958. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  959. </blockquote><p>
  960. <H3>ACT II</h3>
  961. <h3>SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.</h3>
  962. <p><blockquote>
  963. <i>Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him</i>
  964. </blockquote>
  965. <A NAME=speech1><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  966. <blockquote>
  967. <A NAME=2.1.1>How goes the night, boy?</A><br>
  968. </blockquote>
  969. <A NAME=speech2><b>FLEANCE</b></a>
  970. <blockquote>
  971. <A NAME=2.1.2>The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.</A><br>
  972. </blockquote>
  973. <A NAME=speech3><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  974. <blockquote>
  975. <A NAME=2.1.3>And she goes down at twelve.</A><br>
  976. </blockquote>
  977. <A NAME=speech4><b>FLEANCE</b></a>
  978. <blockquote>
  979. <A NAME=2.1.4>I take't, 'tis later, sir.</A><br>
  980. </blockquote>
  981. <A NAME=speech5><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  982. <blockquote>
  983. <A NAME=2.1.5>Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;</A><br>
  984. <A NAME=2.1.6>Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.</A><br>
  985. <A NAME=2.1.7>A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,</A><br>
  986. <A NAME=2.1.8>And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,</A><br>
  987. <A NAME=2.1.9>Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature</A><br>
  988. <A NAME=2.1.10>Gives way to in repose!</A><br>
  989. <p><i>Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch</i></p>
  990. <A NAME=2.1.11>Give me my sword.</A><br>
  991. <A NAME=2.1.12>Who's there?</A><br>
  992. </blockquote>
  993. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  994. <blockquote>
  995. <A NAME=2.1.13>A friend.</A><br>
  996. </blockquote>
  997. <A NAME=speech7><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  998. <blockquote>
  999. <A NAME=2.1.14>What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:</A><br>
  1000. <A NAME=2.1.15>He hath been in unusual pleasure, and</A><br>
  1001. <A NAME=2.1.16>Sent forth great largess to your offices.</A><br>
  1002. <A NAME=2.1.17>This diamond he greets your wife withal,</A><br>
  1003. <A NAME=2.1.18>By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up</A><br>
  1004. <A NAME=2.1.19>In measureless content.</A><br>
  1005. </blockquote>
  1006. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1007. <blockquote>
  1008. <A NAME=2.1.20>Being unprepared,</A><br>
  1009. <A NAME=2.1.21>Our will became the servant to defect;</A><br>
  1010. <A NAME=2.1.22>Which else should free have wrought.</A><br>
  1011. </blockquote>
  1012. <A NAME=speech9><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1013. <blockquote>
  1014. <A NAME=2.1.23>All's well.</A><br>
  1015. <A NAME=2.1.24>I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:</A><br>
  1016. <A NAME=2.1.25>To you they have show'd some truth.</A><br>
  1017. </blockquote>
  1018. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1019. <blockquote>
  1020. <A NAME=2.1.26>I think not of them:</A><br>
  1021. <A NAME=2.1.27>Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,</A><br>
  1022. <A NAME=2.1.28>We would spend it in some words upon that business,</A><br>
  1023. <A NAME=2.1.29>If you would grant the time.</A><br>
  1024. </blockquote>
  1025. <A NAME=speech11><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1026. <blockquote>
  1027. <A NAME=2.1.30>At your kind'st leisure.</A><br>
  1028. </blockquote>
  1029. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1030. <blockquote>
  1031. <A NAME=2.1.31>If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,</A><br>
  1032. <A NAME=2.1.32>It shall make honour for you.</A><br>
  1033. </blockquote>
  1034. <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1035. <blockquote>
  1036. <A NAME=2.1.33>So I lose none</A><br>
  1037. <A NAME=2.1.34>In seeking to augment it, but still keep</A><br>
  1038. <A NAME=2.1.35>My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,</A><br>
  1039. <A NAME=2.1.36>I shall be counsell'd.</A><br>
  1040. </blockquote>
  1041. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1042. <blockquote>
  1043. <A NAME=2.1.37>Good repose the while!</A><br>
  1044. </blockquote>
  1045. <A NAME=speech15><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1046. <blockquote>
  1047. <A NAME=2.1.38>Thanks, sir: the like to you!</A><br>
  1048. <p><i>Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE</i></p>
  1049. </blockquote>
  1050. <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1051. <blockquote>
  1052. <A NAME=2.1.39>Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,</A><br>
  1053. <A NAME=2.1.40>She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.</A><br>
  1054. <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
  1055. <A NAME=2.1.41>Is this a dagger which I see before me,</A><br>
  1056. <A NAME=2.1.42>The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.</A><br>
  1057. <A NAME=2.1.43>I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.</A><br>
  1058. <A NAME=2.1.44>Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible</A><br>
  1059. <A NAME=2.1.45>To feeling as to sight? or art thou but</A><br>
  1060. <A NAME=2.1.46>A dagger of the mind, a false creation,</A><br>
  1061. <A NAME=2.1.47>Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?</A><br>
  1062. <A NAME=2.1.48>I see thee yet, in form as palpable</A><br>
  1063. <A NAME=2.1.49>As this which now I draw.</A><br>
  1064. <A NAME=2.1.50>Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;</A><br>
  1065. <A NAME=2.1.51>And such an instrument I was to use.</A><br>
  1066. <A NAME=2.1.52>Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,</A><br>
  1067. <A NAME=2.1.53>Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,</A><br>
  1068. <A NAME=2.1.54>And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,</A><br>
  1069. <A NAME=2.1.55>Which was not so before. There's no such thing:</A><br>
  1070. <A NAME=2.1.56>It is the bloody business which informs</A><br>
  1071. <A NAME=2.1.57>Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld</A><br>
  1072. <A NAME=2.1.58>Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse</A><br>
  1073. <A NAME=2.1.59>The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates</A><br>
  1074. <A NAME=2.1.60>Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,</A><br>
  1075. <A NAME=2.1.61>Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,</A><br>
  1076. <A NAME=2.1.62>Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.</A><br>
  1077. <A NAME=2.1.63>With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design</A><br>
  1078. <A NAME=2.1.64>Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,</A><br>
  1079. <A NAME=2.1.65>Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear</A><br>
  1080. <A NAME=2.1.66>Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,</A><br>
  1081. <A NAME=2.1.67>And take the present horror from the time,</A><br>
  1082. <A NAME=2.1.68>Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:</A><br>
  1083. <A NAME=2.1.69>Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.</A><br>
  1084. <p><i>A bell rings</i></p>
  1085. <A NAME=2.1.70>I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.</A><br>
  1086. <A NAME=2.1.71>Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell</A><br>
  1087. <A NAME=2.1.72>That summons thee to heaven or to hell.</A><br>
  1088. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  1089. </blockquote>
  1090. <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3>
  1091. <p><blockquote>
  1092. <i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i>
  1093. </blockquote>
  1094. <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1095. <blockquote>
  1096. <A NAME=2.2.1>That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;</A><br>
  1097. <A NAME=2.2.2>What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.</A><br>
  1098. <A NAME=2.2.3>Hark! Peace!</A><br>
  1099. <A NAME=2.2.4>It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,</A><br>
  1100. <A NAME=2.2.5>Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:</A><br>
  1101. <A NAME=2.2.6>The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms</A><br>
  1102. <A NAME=2.2.7>Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd</A><br>
  1103. <A NAME=2.2.8>their possets,</A><br>
  1104. <A NAME=2.2.9>That death and nature do contend about them,</A><br>
  1105. <A NAME=2.2.10>Whether they live or die.</A><br>
  1106. </blockquote>
  1107. <A NAME=speech2><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1108. <blockquote>
  1109. <A NAME=2.2.11>[Within] Who's there? what, ho!</A><br>
  1110. </blockquote>
  1111. <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1112. <blockquote>
  1113. <A NAME=2.2.12>Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,</A><br>
  1114. <A NAME=2.2.13>And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed</A><br>
  1115. <A NAME=2.2.14>Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;</A><br>
  1116. <A NAME=2.2.15>He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled</A><br>
  1117. <A NAME=2.2.16>My father as he slept, I had done't.</A><br>
  1118. <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
  1119. <A NAME=2.2.17>My husband!</A><br>
  1120. </blockquote>
  1121. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1122. <blockquote>
  1123. <A NAME=2.2.18>I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?</A><br>
  1124. </blockquote>
  1125. <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1126. <blockquote>
  1127. <A NAME=2.2.19>I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.</A><br>
  1128. <A NAME=2.2.20>Did not you speak?</A><br>
  1129. </blockquote>
  1130. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1131. <blockquote>
  1132. <A NAME=2.2.21> When?</A><br>
  1133. </blockquote>
  1134. <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1135. <blockquote>
  1136. <A NAME=2.2.22>Now.</A><br>
  1137. </blockquote>
  1138. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1139. <blockquote>
  1140. <A NAME=2.2.23>As I descended?</A><br>
  1141. </blockquote>
  1142. <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1143. <blockquote>
  1144. <A NAME=2.2.24>Ay.</A><br>
  1145. </blockquote>
  1146. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1147. <blockquote>
  1148. <A NAME=2.2.25>Hark!</A><br>
  1149. <A NAME=2.2.26>Who lies i' the second chamber?</A><br>
  1150. </blockquote>
  1151. <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1152. <blockquote>
  1153. <A NAME=2.2.27>Donalbain.</A><br>
  1154. </blockquote>
  1155. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1156. <blockquote>
  1157. <A NAME=2.2.28>This is a sorry sight.</A><br>
  1158. <p><i>Looking on his hands</i></p>
  1159. </blockquote>
  1160. <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1161. <blockquote>
  1162. <A NAME=2.2.29>A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.</A><br>
  1163. </blockquote>
  1164. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1165. <blockquote>
  1166. <A NAME=2.2.30>There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried</A><br>
  1167. <A NAME=2.2.31>'Murder!'</A><br>
  1168. <A NAME=2.2.32>That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:</A><br>
  1169. <A NAME=2.2.33>But they did say their prayers, and address'd them</A><br>
  1170. <A NAME=2.2.34>Again to sleep.</A><br>
  1171. </blockquote>
  1172. <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1173. <blockquote>
  1174. <A NAME=2.2.35> There are two lodged together.</A><br>
  1175. </blockquote>
  1176. <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1177. <blockquote>
  1178. <A NAME=2.2.36>One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;</A><br>
  1179. <A NAME=2.2.37>As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.</A><br>
  1180. <A NAME=2.2.38>Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'</A><br>
  1181. <A NAME=2.2.39>When they did say 'God bless us!'</A><br>
  1182. </blockquote>
  1183. <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1184. <blockquote>
  1185. <A NAME=2.2.40>Consider it not so deeply.</A><br>
  1186. </blockquote>
  1187. <A NAME=speech18><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1188. <blockquote>
  1189. <A NAME=2.2.41>But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?</A><br>
  1190. <A NAME=2.2.42>I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'</A><br>
  1191. <A NAME=2.2.43>Stuck in my throat.</A><br>
  1192. </blockquote>
  1193. <A NAME=speech19><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1194. <blockquote>
  1195. <A NAME=2.2.44>These deeds must not be thought</A><br>
  1196. <A NAME=2.2.45>After these ways; so, it will make us mad.</A><br>
  1197. </blockquote>
  1198. <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1199. <blockquote>
  1200. <A NAME=2.2.46>Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!</A><br>
  1201. <A NAME=2.2.47>Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,</A><br>
  1202. <A NAME=2.2.48>Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,</A><br>
  1203. <A NAME=2.2.49>The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,</A><br>
  1204. <A NAME=2.2.50>Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,</A><br>
  1205. <A NAME=2.2.51>Chief nourisher in life's feast,--</A><br>
  1206. </blockquote>
  1207. <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1208. <blockquote>
  1209. <A NAME=2.2.52>What do you mean?</A><br>
  1210. </blockquote>
  1211. <A NAME=speech22><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1212. <blockquote>
  1213. <A NAME=2.2.53>Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:</A><br>
  1214. <A NAME=2.2.54>'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor</A><br>
  1215. <A NAME=2.2.55>Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'</A><br>
  1216. </blockquote>
  1217. <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1218. <blockquote>
  1219. <A NAME=2.2.56>Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,</A><br>
  1220. <A NAME=2.2.57>You do unbend your noble strength, to think</A><br>
  1221. <A NAME=2.2.58>So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,</A><br>
  1222. <A NAME=2.2.59>And wash this filthy witness from your hand.</A><br>
  1223. <A NAME=2.2.60>Why did you bring these daggers from the place?</A><br>
  1224. <A NAME=2.2.61>They must lie there: go carry them; and smear</A><br>
  1225. <A NAME=2.2.62>The sleepy grooms with blood.</A><br>
  1226. </blockquote>
  1227. <A NAME=speech24><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1228. <blockquote>
  1229. <A NAME=2.2.63>I'll go no more:</A><br>
  1230. <A NAME=2.2.64>I am afraid to think what I have done;</A><br>
  1231. <A NAME=2.2.65>Look on't again I dare not.</A><br>
  1232. </blockquote>
  1233. <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1234. <blockquote>
  1235. <A NAME=2.2.66>Infirm of purpose!</A><br>
  1236. <A NAME=2.2.67>Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead</A><br>
  1237. <A NAME=2.2.68>Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood</A><br>
  1238. <A NAME=2.2.69>That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,</A><br>
  1239. <A NAME=2.2.70>I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;</A><br>
  1240. <A NAME=2.2.71>For it must seem their guilt.</A><br>
  1241. <p><i>Exit. Knocking within</i></p>
  1242. </blockquote>
  1243. <A NAME=speech26><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1244. <blockquote>
  1245. <A NAME=2.2.72>Whence is that knocking?</A><br>
  1246. <A NAME=2.2.73>How is't with me, when every noise appals me?</A><br>
  1247. <A NAME=2.2.74>What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.</A><br>
  1248. <A NAME=2.2.75>Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood</A><br>
  1249. <A NAME=2.2.76>Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather</A><br>
  1250. <A NAME=2.2.77>The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,</A><br>
  1251. <A NAME=2.2.78>Making the green one red.</A><br>
  1252. <p><i>Re-enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
  1253. </blockquote>
  1254. <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1255. <blockquote>
  1256. <A NAME=2.2.79>My hands are of your colour; but I shame</A><br>
  1257. <A NAME=2.2.80>To wear a heart so white.</A><br>
  1258. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1259. <A NAME=2.2.81>I hear a knocking</A><br>
  1260. <A NAME=2.2.82>At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;</A><br>
  1261. <A NAME=2.2.83>A little water clears us of this deed:</A><br>
  1262. <A NAME=2.2.84>How easy is it, then! Your constancy</A><br>
  1263. <A NAME=2.2.85>Hath left you unattended.</A><br>
  1264. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1265. <A NAME=2.2.86>Hark! more knocking.</A><br>
  1266. <A NAME=2.2.87>Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,</A><br>
  1267. <A NAME=2.2.88>And show us to be watchers. Be not lost</A><br>
  1268. <A NAME=2.2.89>So poorly in your thoughts.</A><br>
  1269. </blockquote>
  1270. <A NAME=speech28><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1271. <blockquote>
  1272. <A NAME=2.2.90>To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.</A><br>
  1273. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1274. <A NAME=2.2.91>Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!</A><br>
  1275. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  1276. </blockquote>
  1277. <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3>
  1278. <p><blockquote>
  1279. <i>Knocking within. Enter a Porter</i>
  1280. </blockquote>
  1281. <A NAME=speech1><b>Porter</b></a>
  1282. <blockquote>
  1283. <A NAME=2.3.1>Here's a knocking indeed! If a</A><br>
  1284. <A NAME=2.3.2>man were porter of hell-gate, he should have</A><br>
  1285. <A NAME=2.3.3>old turning the key.</A><br>
  1286. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1287. <A NAME=2.3.4>Knock,</A><br>
  1288. <A NAME=2.3.5>knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of</A><br>
  1289. <A NAME=2.3.6>Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged</A><br>
  1290. <A NAME=2.3.7>himself on the expectation of plenty: come in</A><br>
  1291. <A NAME=2.3.8>time; have napkins enow about you; here</A><br>
  1292. <A NAME=2.3.9>you'll sweat for't.</A><br>
  1293. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1294. <A NAME=2.3.10>Knock,</A><br>
  1295. <A NAME=2.3.11>knock! Who's there, in the other devil's</A><br>
  1296. <A NAME=2.3.12>name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could</A><br>
  1297. <A NAME=2.3.13>swear in both the scales against either scale;</A><br>
  1298. <A NAME=2.3.14>who committed treason enough for God's sake,</A><br>
  1299. <A NAME=2.3.15>yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come</A><br>
  1300. <A NAME=2.3.16>in, equivocator.</A><br>
  1301. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1302. <A NAME=2.3.17>Knock,</A><br>
  1303. <A NAME=2.3.18>knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an</A><br>
  1304. <A NAME=2.3.19>English tailor come hither, for stealing out of</A><br>
  1305. <A NAME=2.3.20>a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may</A><br>
  1306. <A NAME=2.3.21>roast your goose.</A><br>
  1307. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1308. <A NAME=2.3.22>Knock,</A><br>
  1309. <A NAME=2.3.23>knock; never at quiet! What are you? But</A><br>
  1310. <A NAME=2.3.24>this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter</A><br>
  1311. <A NAME=2.3.25>it no further: I had thought to have let in</A><br>
  1312. <A NAME=2.3.26>some of all professions that go the primrose</A><br>
  1313. <A NAME=2.3.27>way to the everlasting bonfire.</A><br>
  1314. <p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
  1315. <A NAME=2.3.28>Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.</A><br>
  1316. <p><i>Opens the gate</i></p>
  1317. <p><i>Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX</i></p>
  1318. </blockquote>
  1319. <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1320. <blockquote>
  1321. <A NAME=2.3.29>Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,</A><br>
  1322. <A NAME=2.3.30>That you do lie so late?</A><br>
  1323. </blockquote>
  1324. <A NAME=speech3><b>Porter</b></a>
  1325. <blockquote>
  1326. <A NAME=2.3.31>'Faith sir, we were carousing till the</A><br>
  1327. <A NAME=2.3.32>second cock: and drink, sir, is a great</A><br>
  1328. <A NAME=2.3.33>provoker of three things.</A><br>
  1329. </blockquote>
  1330. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1331. <blockquote>
  1332. <A NAME=2.3.34>What three things does drink especially provoke?</A><br>
  1333. </blockquote>
  1334. <A NAME=speech5><b>Porter</b></a>
  1335. <blockquote>
  1336. <A NAME=2.3.35>Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and</A><br>
  1337. <A NAME=2.3.36>urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;</A><br>
  1338. <A NAME=2.3.37>it provokes the desire, but it takes</A><br>
  1339. <A NAME=2.3.38>away the performance: therefore, much drink</A><br>
  1340. <A NAME=2.3.39>may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:</A><br>
  1341. <A NAME=2.3.40>it makes him, and it mars him; it sets</A><br>
  1342. <A NAME=2.3.41>him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,</A><br>
  1343. <A NAME=2.3.42>and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and</A><br>
  1344. <A NAME=2.3.43>not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him</A><br>
  1345. <A NAME=2.3.44>in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.</A><br>
  1346. </blockquote>
  1347. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1348. <blockquote>
  1349. <A NAME=2.3.45>I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.</A><br>
  1350. </blockquote>
  1351. <A NAME=speech7><b>Porter</b></a>
  1352. <blockquote>
  1353. <A NAME=2.3.46>That it did, sir, i' the very throat on</A><br>
  1354. <A NAME=2.3.47>me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I</A><br>
  1355. <A NAME=2.3.48>think, being too strong for him, though he took</A><br>
  1356. <A NAME=2.3.49>up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast</A><br>
  1357. <A NAME=2.3.50>him.</A><br>
  1358. </blockquote>
  1359. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1360. <blockquote>
  1361. <A NAME=2.3.51>Is thy master stirring?</A><br>
  1362. <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
  1363. <A NAME=2.3.52>Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.</A><br>
  1364. </blockquote>
  1365. <A NAME=speech9><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1366. <blockquote>
  1367. <A NAME=2.3.53>Good morrow, noble sir.</A><br>
  1368. </blockquote>
  1369. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1370. <blockquote>
  1371. <A NAME=2.3.54>Good morrow, both.</A><br>
  1372. </blockquote>
  1373. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1374. <blockquote>
  1375. <A NAME=2.3.55>Is the king stirring, worthy thane?</A><br>
  1376. </blockquote>
  1377. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1378. <blockquote>
  1379. <A NAME=2.3.56>Not yet.</A><br>
  1380. </blockquote>
  1381. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1382. <blockquote>
  1383. <A NAME=2.3.57>He did command me to call timely on him:</A><br>
  1384. <A NAME=2.3.58>I have almost slipp'd the hour.</A><br>
  1385. </blockquote>
  1386. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1387. <blockquote>
  1388. <A NAME=2.3.59>I'll bring you to him.</A><br>
  1389. </blockquote>
  1390. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1391. <blockquote>
  1392. <A NAME=2.3.60>I know this is a joyful trouble to you;</A><br>
  1393. <A NAME=2.3.61>But yet 'tis one.</A><br>
  1394. </blockquote>
  1395. <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1396. <blockquote>
  1397. <A NAME=2.3.62>The labour we delight in physics pain.</A><br>
  1398. <A NAME=2.3.63>This is the door.</A><br>
  1399. </blockquote>
  1400. <A NAME=speech17><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1401. <blockquote>
  1402. <A NAME=2.3.64> I'll make so bold to call,</A><br>
  1403. <A NAME=2.3.65>For 'tis my limited service.</A><br>
  1404. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  1405. </blockquote>
  1406. <A NAME=speech18><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1407. <blockquote>
  1408. <A NAME=2.3.66>Goes the king hence to-day?</A><br>
  1409. </blockquote>
  1410. <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1411. <blockquote>
  1412. <A NAME=2.3.67>He does: he did appoint so.</A><br>
  1413. </blockquote>
  1414. <A NAME=speech20><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1415. <blockquote>
  1416. <A NAME=2.3.68>The night has been unruly: where we lay,</A><br>
  1417. <A NAME=2.3.69>Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,</A><br>
  1418. <A NAME=2.3.70>Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,</A><br>
  1419. <A NAME=2.3.71>And prophesying with accents terrible</A><br>
  1420. <A NAME=2.3.72>Of dire combustion and confused events</A><br>
  1421. <A NAME=2.3.73>New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird</A><br>
  1422. <A NAME=2.3.74>Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth</A><br>
  1423. <A NAME=2.3.75>Was feverous and did shake.</A><br>
  1424. </blockquote>
  1425. <A NAME=speech21><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1426. <blockquote>
  1427. <A NAME=2.3.76>'Twas a rough night.</A><br>
  1428. </blockquote>
  1429. <A NAME=speech22><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1430. <blockquote>
  1431. <A NAME=2.3.77>My young remembrance cannot parallel</A><br>
  1432. <A NAME=2.3.78>A fellow to it.</A><br>
  1433. <p><i>Re-enter MACDUFF</i></p>
  1434. </blockquote>
  1435. <A NAME=speech23><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1436. <blockquote>
  1437. <A NAME=2.3.79>O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart</A><br>
  1438. <A NAME=2.3.80>Cannot conceive nor name thee!</A><br>
  1439. </blockquote>
  1440. <A NAME=speech24><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1441. <A NAME=speech25><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1442. <blockquote>
  1443. <A NAME=2.3.81>What's the matter.</A><br>
  1444. </blockquote>
  1445. <A NAME=speech26><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1446. <blockquote>
  1447. <A NAME=2.3.82>Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!</A><br>
  1448. <A NAME=2.3.83>Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope</A><br>
  1449. <A NAME=2.3.84>The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence</A><br>
  1450. <A NAME=2.3.85>The life o' the building!</A><br>
  1451. </blockquote>
  1452. <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1453. <blockquote>
  1454. <A NAME=2.3.86>What is 't you say? the life?</A><br>
  1455. </blockquote>
  1456. <A NAME=speech28><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1457. <blockquote>
  1458. <A NAME=2.3.87>Mean you his majesty?</A><br>
  1459. </blockquote>
  1460. <A NAME=speech29><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1461. <blockquote>
  1462. <A NAME=2.3.88>Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight</A><br>
  1463. <A NAME=2.3.89>With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;</A><br>
  1464. <A NAME=2.3.90>See, and then speak yourselves.</A><br>
  1465. <p><i>Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX</i></p>
  1466. <A NAME=2.3.91>Awake, awake!</A><br>
  1467. <A NAME=2.3.92>Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!</A><br>
  1468. <A NAME=2.3.93>Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!</A><br>
  1469. <A NAME=2.3.94>Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,</A><br>
  1470. <A NAME=2.3.95>And look on death itself! up, up, and see</A><br>
  1471. <A NAME=2.3.96>The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!</A><br>
  1472. <A NAME=2.3.97>As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,</A><br>
  1473. <A NAME=2.3.98>To countenance this horror! Ring the bell.</A><br>
  1474. <p><i>Bell rings</i></p>
  1475. <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH</i></p>
  1476. </blockquote>
  1477. <A NAME=speech30><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1478. <blockquote>
  1479. <A NAME=2.3.99>What's the business,</A><br>
  1480. <A NAME=2.3.100>That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley</A><br>
  1481. <A NAME=2.3.101>The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!</A><br>
  1482. </blockquote>
  1483. <A NAME=speech31><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1484. <blockquote>
  1485. <A NAME=2.3.102>O gentle lady,</A><br>
  1486. <A NAME=2.3.103>'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:</A><br>
  1487. <A NAME=2.3.104>The repetition, in a woman's ear,</A><br>
  1488. <A NAME=2.3.105>Would murder as it fell.</A><br>
  1489. <p><i>Enter BANQUO</i></p>
  1490. <A NAME=2.3.106>O Banquo, Banquo,</A><br>
  1491. <A NAME=2.3.107>Our royal master 's murder'd!</A><br>
  1492. </blockquote>
  1493. <A NAME=speech32><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1494. <blockquote>
  1495. <A NAME=2.3.108>Woe, alas!</A><br>
  1496. <A NAME=2.3.109>What, in our house?</A><br>
  1497. </blockquote>
  1498. <A NAME=speech33><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1499. <blockquote>
  1500. <A NAME=2.3.110>Too cruel any where.</A><br>
  1501. <A NAME=2.3.111>Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,</A><br>
  1502. <A NAME=2.3.112>And say it is not so.</A><br>
  1503. <p><i>Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS</i></p>
  1504. </blockquote>
  1505. <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1506. <blockquote>
  1507. <A NAME=2.3.113>Had I but died an hour before this chance,</A><br>
  1508. <A NAME=2.3.114>I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,</A><br>
  1509. <A NAME=2.3.115>There 's nothing serious in mortality:</A><br>
  1510. <A NAME=2.3.116>All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;</A><br>
  1511. <A NAME=2.3.117>The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees</A><br>
  1512. <A NAME=2.3.118>Is left this vault to brag of.</A><br>
  1513. <p><i>Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN</i></p>
  1514. </blockquote>
  1515. <A NAME=speech35><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
  1516. <blockquote>
  1517. <A NAME=2.3.119>What is amiss?</A><br>
  1518. </blockquote>
  1519. <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1520. <blockquote>
  1521. <A NAME=2.3.120> You are, and do not know't:</A><br>
  1522. <A NAME=2.3.121>The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood</A><br>
  1523. <A NAME=2.3.122>Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd.</A><br>
  1524. </blockquote>
  1525. <A NAME=speech37><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1526. <blockquote>
  1527. <A NAME=2.3.123>Your royal father 's murder'd.</A><br>
  1528. </blockquote>
  1529. <A NAME=speech38><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  1530. <blockquote>
  1531. <A NAME=2.3.124>O, by whom?</A><br>
  1532. </blockquote>
  1533. <A NAME=speech39><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  1534. <blockquote>
  1535. <A NAME=2.3.125>Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:</A><br>
  1536. <A NAME=2.3.126>Their hands and faces were an badged with blood;</A><br>
  1537. <A NAME=2.3.127>So were their daggers, which unwiped we found</A><br>
  1538. <A NAME=2.3.128>Upon their pillows:</A><br>
  1539. <A NAME=2.3.129>They stared, and were distracted; no man's life</A><br>
  1540. <A NAME=2.3.130>Was to be trusted with them.</A><br>
  1541. </blockquote>
  1542. <A NAME=speech40><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1543. <blockquote>
  1544. <A NAME=2.3.131>O, yet I do repent me of my fury,</A><br>
  1545. <A NAME=2.3.132>That I did kill them.</A><br>
  1546. </blockquote>
  1547. <A NAME=speech41><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1548. <blockquote>
  1549. <A NAME=2.3.133>Wherefore did you so?</A><br>
  1550. </blockquote>
  1551. <A NAME=speech42><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1552. <blockquote>
  1553. <A NAME=2.3.134>Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,</A><br>
  1554. <A NAME=2.3.135>Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:</A><br>
  1555. <A NAME=2.3.136>The expedition my violent love</A><br>
  1556. <A NAME=2.3.137>Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,</A><br>
  1557. <A NAME=2.3.138>His silver skin laced with his golden blood;</A><br>
  1558. <A NAME=2.3.139>And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature</A><br>
  1559. <A NAME=2.3.140>For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,</A><br>
  1560. <A NAME=2.3.141>Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers</A><br>
  1561. <A NAME=2.3.142>Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,</A><br>
  1562. <A NAME=2.3.143>That had a heart to love, and in that heart</A><br>
  1563. <A NAME=2.3.144>Courage to make 's love kno wn?</A><br>
  1564. </blockquote>
  1565. <A NAME=speech43><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1566. <blockquote>
  1567. <A NAME=2.3.145>Help me hence, ho!</A><br>
  1568. </blockquote>
  1569. <A NAME=speech44><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1570. <blockquote>
  1571. <A NAME=2.3.146>Look to the lady.</A><br>
  1572. </blockquote>
  1573. <A NAME=speech45><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  1574. <blockquote>
  1575. <A NAME=2.3.147>[Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we hold our tongues,</A><br>
  1576. <A NAME=2.3.148>That most may claim this argument for ours?</A><br>
  1577. </blockquote>
  1578. <A NAME=speech46><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
  1579. <blockquote>
  1580. <A NAME=2.3.149>[Aside to MALCOLM] What should be spoken here,</A><br>
  1581. <A NAME=2.3.150>where our fate,</A><br>
  1582. <A NAME=2.3.151>Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?</A><br>
  1583. <A NAME=2.3.152>Let 's away;</A><br>
  1584. <A NAME=2.3.153>Our tears are not yet brew'd.</A><br>
  1585. </blockquote>
  1586. <A NAME=speech47><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  1587. <blockquote>
  1588. <A NAME=2.3.154>[Aside to DONALBAIN] Nor our strong sorrow</A><br>
  1589. <A NAME=2.3.155>Upon the foot of motion.</A><br>
  1590. </blockquote>
  1591. <A NAME=speech48><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1592. <blockquote>
  1593. <A NAME=2.3.156>Look to the lady:</A><br>
  1594. <p><i>LADY MACBETH is carried out</i></p>
  1595. <A NAME=2.3.157>And when we have our naked frailties hid,</A><br>
  1596. <A NAME=2.3.158>That suffer in exposure, let us meet,</A><br>
  1597. <A NAME=2.3.159>And question this most bloody piece of work,</A><br>
  1598. <A NAME=2.3.160>To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:</A><br>
  1599. <A NAME=2.3.161>In the great hand of God I stand; and thence</A><br>
  1600. <A NAME=2.3.162>Against the undivulged pretence I fight</A><br>
  1601. <A NAME=2.3.163>Of treasonous malice.</A><br>
  1602. </blockquote>
  1603. <A NAME=speech49><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1604. <blockquote>
  1605. <A NAME=2.3.164>And so do I.</A><br>
  1606. </blockquote>
  1607. <A NAME=speech50><b>ALL</b></a>
  1608. <blockquote>
  1609. <A NAME=2.3.165>So all.</A><br>
  1610. </blockquote>
  1611. <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1612. <blockquote>
  1613. <A NAME=2.3.166>Let's briefly put on manly readiness,</A><br>
  1614. <A NAME=2.3.167>And meet i' the hall together.</A><br>
  1615. </blockquote>
  1616. <A NAME=speech52><b>ALL</b></a>
  1617. <blockquote>
  1618. <A NAME=2.3.168>Well contented.</A><br>
  1619. <p><i>Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.</i></p>
  1620. </blockquote>
  1621. <A NAME=speech53><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  1622. <blockquote>
  1623. <A NAME=2.3.169>What will you do? Let's not consort with them:</A><br>
  1624. <A NAME=2.3.170>To show an unfelt sorrow is an office</A><br>
  1625. <A NAME=2.3.171>Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.</A><br>
  1626. </blockquote>
  1627. <A NAME=speech54><b>DONALBAIN</b></a>
  1628. <blockquote>
  1629. <A NAME=2.3.172>To Ireland, I; our separated fortune</A><br>
  1630. <A NAME=2.3.173>Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,</A><br>
  1631. <A NAME=2.3.174>There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,</A><br>
  1632. <A NAME=2.3.175>The nearer bloody.</A><br>
  1633. </blockquote>
  1634. <A NAME=speech55><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  1635. <blockquote>
  1636. <A NAME=2.3.176> This murderous shaft that's shot</A><br>
  1637. <A NAME=2.3.177>Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way</A><br>
  1638. <A NAME=2.3.178>Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;</A><br>
  1639. <A NAME=2.3.179>And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,</A><br>
  1640. <A NAME=2.3.180>But shift away: there's warrant in that theft</A><br>
  1641. <A NAME=2.3.181>Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.</A><br>
  1642. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  1643. </blockquote>
  1644. <h3>SCENE IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.</h3>
  1645. <p><blockquote>
  1646. <i>Enter ROSS and an old Man</i>
  1647. </blockquote>
  1648. <A NAME=speech1><b>Old Man</b></a>
  1649. <blockquote>
  1650. <A NAME=2.4.1>Threescore and ten I can remember well:</A><br>
  1651. <A NAME=2.4.2>Within the volume of which time I have seen</A><br>
  1652. <A NAME=2.4.3>Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night</A><br>
  1653. <A NAME=2.4.4>Hath trifled former knowings.</A><br>
  1654. </blockquote>
  1655. <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1656. <blockquote>
  1657. <A NAME=2.4.5>Ah, good father,</A><br>
  1658. <A NAME=2.4.6>Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,</A><br>
  1659. <A NAME=2.4.7>Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,</A><br>
  1660. <A NAME=2.4.8>And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:</A><br>
  1661. <A NAME=2.4.9>Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,</A><br>
  1662. <A NAME=2.4.10>That darkness does the face of earth entomb,</A><br>
  1663. <A NAME=2.4.11>When living light should kiss it?</A><br>
  1664. </blockquote>
  1665. <A NAME=speech3><b>Old Man</b></a>
  1666. <blockquote>
  1667. <A NAME=2.4.12>'Tis unnatural,</A><br>
  1668. <A NAME=2.4.13>Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,</A><br>
  1669. <A NAME=2.4.14>A falcon, towering in her pride of place,</A><br>
  1670. <A NAME=2.4.15>Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.</A><br>
  1671. </blockquote>
  1672. <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1673. <blockquote>
  1674. <A NAME=2.4.16>And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--</A><br>
  1675. <A NAME=2.4.17>Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,</A><br>
  1676. <A NAME=2.4.18>Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,</A><br>
  1677. <A NAME=2.4.19>Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make</A><br>
  1678. <A NAME=2.4.20>War with mankind.</A><br>
  1679. </blockquote>
  1680. <A NAME=speech5><b>Old Man</b></a>
  1681. <blockquote>
  1682. <A NAME=2.4.21>'Tis said they eat each other.</A><br>
  1683. </blockquote>
  1684. <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1685. <blockquote>
  1686. <A NAME=2.4.22>They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes</A><br>
  1687. <A NAME=2.4.23>That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff.</A><br>
  1688. <p><i>Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
  1689. <A NAME=2.4.24>How goes the world, sir, now?</A><br>
  1690. </blockquote>
  1691. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1692. <blockquote>
  1693. <A NAME=2.4.25>Why, see you not?</A><br>
  1694. </blockquote>
  1695. <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1696. <blockquote>
  1697. <A NAME=2.4.26>Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?</A><br>
  1698. </blockquote>
  1699. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1700. <blockquote>
  1701. <A NAME=2.4.27>Those that Macbeth hath slain.</A><br>
  1702. </blockquote>
  1703. <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1704. <blockquote>
  1705. <A NAME=2.4.28>Alas, the day!</A><br>
  1706. <A NAME=2.4.29>What good could they pretend?</A><br>
  1707. </blockquote>
  1708. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1709. <blockquote>
  1710. <A NAME=2.4.30>They were suborn'd:</A><br>
  1711. <A NAME=2.4.31>Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,</A><br>
  1712. <A NAME=2.4.32>Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them</A><br>
  1713. <A NAME=2.4.33>Suspicion of the deed.</A><br>
  1714. </blockquote>
  1715. <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1716. <blockquote>
  1717. <A NAME=2.4.34>'Gainst nature still!</A><br>
  1718. <A NAME=2.4.35>Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up</A><br>
  1719. <A NAME=2.4.36>Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like</A><br>
  1720. <A NAME=2.4.37>The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.</A><br>
  1721. </blockquote>
  1722. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1723. <blockquote>
  1724. <A NAME=2.4.38>He is already named, and gone to Scone</A><br>
  1725. <A NAME=2.4.39>To be invested.</A><br>
  1726. </blockquote>
  1727. <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1728. <blockquote>
  1729. <A NAME=2.4.40> Where is Duncan's body?</A><br>
  1730. </blockquote>
  1731. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1732. <blockquote>
  1733. <A NAME=2.4.41>Carried to Colmekill,</A><br>
  1734. <A NAME=2.4.42>The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,</A><br>
  1735. <A NAME=2.4.43>And guardian of their bones.</A><br>
  1736. </blockquote>
  1737. <A NAME=speech16><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1738. <blockquote>
  1739. <A NAME=2.4.44>Will you to Scone?</A><br>
  1740. </blockquote>
  1741. <A NAME=speech17><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1742. <blockquote>
  1743. <A NAME=2.4.45>No, cousin, I'll to Fife.</A><br>
  1744. </blockquote>
  1745. <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1746. <blockquote>
  1747. <A NAME=2.4.46>Well, I will thither.</A><br>
  1748. </blockquote>
  1749. <A NAME=speech19><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  1750. <blockquote>
  1751. <A NAME=2.4.47>Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!</A><br>
  1752. <A NAME=2.4.48>Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!</A><br>
  1753. </blockquote>
  1754. <A NAME=speech20><b>ROSS</b></a>
  1755. <blockquote>
  1756. <A NAME=2.4.49>Farewell, father.</A><br>
  1757. </blockquote>
  1758. <A NAME=speech21><b>Old Man</b></a>
  1759. <blockquote>
  1760. <A NAME=2.4.50>God's benison go with you; and with those</A><br>
  1761. <A NAME=2.4.51>That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!</A><br>
  1762. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  1763. </blockquote><p>
  1764. <H3>ACT III</h3>
  1765. <h3>SCENE I. Forres. The palace.</h3>
  1766. <p><blockquote>
  1767. <i>Enter BANQUO</i>
  1768. </blockquote>
  1769. <A NAME=speech1><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1770. <blockquote>
  1771. <A NAME=3.1.1>Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,</A><br>
  1772. <A NAME=3.1.2>As the weird women promised, and, I fear,</A><br>
  1773. <A NAME=3.1.3>Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said</A><br>
  1774. <A NAME=3.1.4>It should not stand in thy posterity,</A><br>
  1775. <A NAME=3.1.5>But that myself should be the root and father</A><br>
  1776. <A NAME=3.1.6>Of many kings. If there come truth from them--</A><br>
  1777. <A NAME=3.1.7>As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--</A><br>
  1778. <A NAME=3.1.8>Why, by the verities on thee made good,</A><br>
  1779. <A NAME=3.1.9>May they not be my oracles as well,</A><br>
  1780. <A NAME=3.1.10>And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.</A><br>
  1781. <p><i>Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants</i></p>
  1782. </blockquote>
  1783. <A NAME=speech2><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1784. <blockquote>
  1785. <A NAME=3.1.11>Here's our chief guest.</A><br>
  1786. </blockquote>
  1787. <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  1788. <blockquote>
  1789. <A NAME=3.1.12>If he had been forgotten,</A><br>
  1790. <A NAME=3.1.13>It had been as a gap in our great feast,</A><br>
  1791. <A NAME=3.1.14>And all-thing unbecoming.</A><br>
  1792. </blockquote>
  1793. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1794. <blockquote>
  1795. <A NAME=3.1.15>To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,</A><br>
  1796. <A NAME=3.1.16>And I'll request your presence.</A><br>
  1797. </blockquote>
  1798. <A NAME=speech5><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1799. <blockquote>
  1800. <A NAME=3.1.17>Let your highness</A><br>
  1801. <A NAME=3.1.18>Command upon me; to the which my duties</A><br>
  1802. <A NAME=3.1.19>Are with a most indissoluble tie</A><br>
  1803. <A NAME=3.1.20>For ever knit.</A><br>
  1804. </blockquote>
  1805. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1806. <blockquote>
  1807. <A NAME=3.1.21> Ride you this afternoon?</A><br>
  1808. </blockquote>
  1809. <A NAME=speech7><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1810. <blockquote>
  1811. <A NAME=3.1.22>Ay, my good lord.</A><br>
  1812. </blockquote>
  1813. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1814. <blockquote>
  1815. <A NAME=3.1.23>We should have else desired your good advice,</A><br>
  1816. <A NAME=3.1.24>Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,</A><br>
  1817. <A NAME=3.1.25>In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow.</A><br>
  1818. <A NAME=3.1.26>Is't far you ride?</A><br>
  1819. </blockquote>
  1820. <A NAME=speech9><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1821. <blockquote>
  1822. <A NAME=3.1.27>As far, my lord, as will fill up the time</A><br>
  1823. <A NAME=3.1.28>'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,</A><br>
  1824. <A NAME=3.1.29>I must become a borrower of the night</A><br>
  1825. <A NAME=3.1.30>For a dark hour or twain.</A><br>
  1826. </blockquote>
  1827. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1828. <blockquote>
  1829. <A NAME=3.1.31>Fail not our feast.</A><br>
  1830. </blockquote>
  1831. <A NAME=speech11><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1832. <blockquote>
  1833. <A NAME=3.1.32>My lord, I will not.</A><br>
  1834. </blockquote>
  1835. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1836. <blockquote>
  1837. <A NAME=3.1.33>We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd</A><br>
  1838. <A NAME=3.1.34>In England and in Ireland, not confessing</A><br>
  1839. <A NAME=3.1.35>Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers</A><br>
  1840. <A NAME=3.1.36>With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,</A><br>
  1841. <A NAME=3.1.37>When therewithal we shall have cause of state</A><br>
  1842. <A NAME=3.1.38>Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,</A><br>
  1843. <A NAME=3.1.39>Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?</A><br>
  1844. </blockquote>
  1845. <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  1846. <blockquote>
  1847. <A NAME=3.1.40>Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.</A><br>
  1848. </blockquote>
  1849. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1850. <blockquote>
  1851. <A NAME=3.1.41>I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;</A><br>
  1852. <A NAME=3.1.42>And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.</A><br>
  1853. <p><i>Exit BANQUO</i></p>
  1854. <A NAME=3.1.43>Let every man be master of his time</A><br>
  1855. <A NAME=3.1.44>Till seven at night: to make society</A><br>
  1856. <A NAME=3.1.45>The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself</A><br>
  1857. <A NAME=3.1.46>Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!</A><br>
  1858. <p><i>Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant</i></p>
  1859. <A NAME=3.1.47>Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men</A><br>
  1860. <A NAME=3.1.48>Our pleasure?</A><br>
  1861. </blockquote>
  1862. <A NAME=speech15><b>ATTENDANT</b></a>
  1863. <blockquote>
  1864. <A NAME=3.1.49>They are, my lord, without the palace gate.</A><br>
  1865. </blockquote>
  1866. <A NAME=speech16><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1867. <blockquote>
  1868. <A NAME=3.1.50>Bring them before us.</A><br>
  1869. <p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p>
  1870. <A NAME=3.1.51>To be thus is nothing;</A><br>
  1871. <A NAME=3.1.52>But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo</A><br>
  1872. <A NAME=3.1.53>Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature</A><br>
  1873. <A NAME=3.1.54>Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;</A><br>
  1874. <A NAME=3.1.55>And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,</A><br>
  1875. <A NAME=3.1.56>He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour</A><br>
  1876. <A NAME=3.1.57>To act in safety. There is none but he</A><br>
  1877. <A NAME=3.1.58>Whose being I do fear: and, under him,</A><br>
  1878. <A NAME=3.1.59>My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,</A><br>
  1879. <A NAME=3.1.60>Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters</A><br>
  1880. <A NAME=3.1.61>When first they put the name of king upon me,</A><br>
  1881. <A NAME=3.1.62>And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like</A><br>
  1882. <A NAME=3.1.63>They hail'd him father to a line of kings:</A><br>
  1883. <A NAME=3.1.64>Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,</A><br>
  1884. <A NAME=3.1.65>And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,</A><br>
  1885. <A NAME=3.1.66>Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,</A><br>
  1886. <A NAME=3.1.67>No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,</A><br>
  1887. <A NAME=3.1.68>For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;</A><br>
  1888. <A NAME=3.1.69>For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;</A><br>
  1889. <A NAME=3.1.70>Put rancours in the vessel of my peace</A><br>
  1890. <A NAME=3.1.71>Only for them; and mine eternal jewel</A><br>
  1891. <A NAME=3.1.72>Given to the common enemy of man,</A><br>
  1892. <A NAME=3.1.73>To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!</A><br>
  1893. <A NAME=3.1.74>Rather than so, come fate into the list.</A><br>
  1894. <A NAME=3.1.75>And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!</A><br>
  1895. <p><i>Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers</i></p>
  1896. <A NAME=3.1.76>Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.</A><br>
  1897. <p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p>
  1898. <A NAME=3.1.77>Was it not yesterday we spoke together?</A><br>
  1899. </blockquote>
  1900. <A NAME=speech17><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  1901. <blockquote>
  1902. <A NAME=3.1.78>It was, so please your highness.</A><br>
  1903. </blockquote>
  1904. <A NAME=speech18><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1905. <blockquote>
  1906. <A NAME=3.1.79>Well then, now</A><br>
  1907. <A NAME=3.1.80>Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know</A><br>
  1908. <A NAME=3.1.81>That it was he in the times past which held you</A><br>
  1909. <A NAME=3.1.82>So under fortune, which you thought had been</A><br>
  1910. <A NAME=3.1.83>Our innocent self: this I made good to you</A><br>
  1911. <A NAME=3.1.84>In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,</A><br>
  1912. <A NAME=3.1.85>How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,</A><br>
  1913. <A NAME=3.1.86>the instruments,</A><br>
  1914. <A NAME=3.1.87>Who wrought with them, and all things else that might</A><br>
  1915. <A NAME=3.1.88>To half a soul and to a notion crazed</A><br>
  1916. <A NAME=3.1.89>Say 'Thus did Banquo.'</A><br>
  1917. </blockquote>
  1918. <A NAME=speech19><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  1919. <blockquote>
  1920. <A NAME=3.1.90>You made it known to us.</A><br>
  1921. </blockquote>
  1922. <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1923. <blockquote>
  1924. <A NAME=3.1.91>I did so, and went further, which is now</A><br>
  1925. <A NAME=3.1.92>Our point of second meeting. Do you find</A><br>
  1926. <A NAME=3.1.93>Your patience so predominant in your nature</A><br>
  1927. <A NAME=3.1.94>That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd</A><br>
  1928. <A NAME=3.1.95>To pray for this good man and for his issue,</A><br>
  1929. <A NAME=3.1.96>Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave</A><br>
  1930. <A NAME=3.1.97>And beggar'd yours for ever?</A><br>
  1931. </blockquote>
  1932. <A NAME=speech21><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  1933. <blockquote>
  1934. <A NAME=3.1.98>We are men, my liege.</A><br>
  1935. </blockquote>
  1936. <A NAME=speech22><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1937. <blockquote>
  1938. <A NAME=3.1.99>Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;</A><br>
  1939. <A NAME=3.1.100>As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,</A><br>
  1940. <A NAME=3.1.101>Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept</A><br>
  1941. <A NAME=3.1.102>All by the name of dogs: the valued file</A><br>
  1942. <A NAME=3.1.103>Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,</A><br>
  1943. <A NAME=3.1.104>The housekeeper, the hunter, every one</A><br>
  1944. <A NAME=3.1.105>According to the gift which bounteous nature</A><br>
  1945. <A NAME=3.1.106>Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive</A><br>
  1946. <A NAME=3.1.107>Particular addition. from the bill</A><br>
  1947. <A NAME=3.1.108>That writes them all alike: and so of men.</A><br>
  1948. <A NAME=3.1.109>Now, if you have a station in the file,</A><br>
  1949. <A NAME=3.1.110>Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;</A><br>
  1950. <A NAME=3.1.111>And I will put that business in your bosoms,</A><br>
  1951. <A NAME=3.1.112>Whose execution takes your enemy off,</A><br>
  1952. <A NAME=3.1.113>Grapples you to the heart and love of us,</A><br>
  1953. <A NAME=3.1.114>Who wear our health but sickly in his life,</A><br>
  1954. <A NAME=3.1.115>Which in his death were perfect.</A><br>
  1955. </blockquote>
  1956. <A NAME=speech23><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  1957. <blockquote>
  1958. <A NAME=3.1.116>I am one, my liege,</A><br>
  1959. <A NAME=3.1.117>Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world</A><br>
  1960. <A NAME=3.1.118>Have so incensed that I am reckless what</A><br>
  1961. <A NAME=3.1.119>I do to spite the world.</A><br>
  1962. </blockquote>
  1963. <A NAME=speech24><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  1964. <blockquote>
  1965. <A NAME=3.1.120>And I another</A><br>
  1966. <A NAME=3.1.121>So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,</A><br>
  1967. <A NAME=3.1.122>That I would set my lie on any chance,</A><br>
  1968. <A NAME=3.1.123>To mend it, or be rid on't.</A><br>
  1969. </blockquote>
  1970. <A NAME=speech25><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1971. <blockquote>
  1972. <A NAME=3.1.124>Both of you</A><br>
  1973. <A NAME=3.1.125>Know Banquo was your enemy.</A><br>
  1974. </blockquote>
  1975. <A NAME=speech26><b>Both Murderers</b></a>
  1976. <blockquote>
  1977. <A NAME=3.1.126>True, my lord.</A><br>
  1978. </blockquote>
  1979. <A NAME=speech27><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  1980. <blockquote>
  1981. <A NAME=3.1.127>So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,</A><br>
  1982. <A NAME=3.1.128>That every minute of his being thrusts</A><br>
  1983. <A NAME=3.1.129>Against my near'st of life: and though I could</A><br>
  1984. <A NAME=3.1.130>With barefaced power sweep him from my sight</A><br>
  1985. <A NAME=3.1.131>And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,</A><br>
  1986. <A NAME=3.1.132>For certain friends that are both his and mine,</A><br>
  1987. <A NAME=3.1.133>Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall</A><br>
  1988. <A NAME=3.1.134>Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,</A><br>
  1989. <A NAME=3.1.135>That I to your assistance do make love,</A><br>
  1990. <A NAME=3.1.136>Masking the business from the common eye</A><br>
  1991. <A NAME=3.1.137>For sundry weighty reasons.</A><br>
  1992. </blockquote>
  1993. <A NAME=speech28><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  1994. <blockquote>
  1995. <A NAME=3.1.138>We shall, my lord,</A><br>
  1996. <A NAME=3.1.139>Perform what you command us.</A><br>
  1997. </blockquote>
  1998. <A NAME=speech29><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  1999. <blockquote>
  2000. <A NAME=3.1.140>Though our lives--</A><br>
  2001. </blockquote>
  2002. <A NAME=speech30><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2003. <blockquote>
  2004. <A NAME=3.1.141>Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most</A><br>
  2005. <A NAME=3.1.142>I will advise you where to plant yourselves;</A><br>
  2006. <A NAME=3.1.143>Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,</A><br>
  2007. <A NAME=3.1.144>The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,</A><br>
  2008. <A NAME=3.1.145>And something from the palace; always thought</A><br>
  2009. <A NAME=3.1.146>That I require a clearness: and with him--</A><br>
  2010. <A NAME=3.1.147>To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--</A><br>
  2011. <A NAME=3.1.148>Fleance his son, that keeps him company,</A><br>
  2012. <A NAME=3.1.149>Whose absence is no less material to me</A><br>
  2013. <A NAME=3.1.150>Than is his father's, must embrace the fate</A><br>
  2014. <A NAME=3.1.151>Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:</A><br>
  2015. <A NAME=3.1.152>I'll come to you anon.</A><br>
  2016. </blockquote>
  2017. <A NAME=speech31><b>Both Murderers</b></a>
  2018. <blockquote>
  2019. <A NAME=3.1.153>We are resolved, my lord.</A><br>
  2020. </blockquote>
  2021. <A NAME=speech32><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2022. <blockquote>
  2023. <A NAME=3.1.154>I'll call upon you straight: abide within.</A><br>
  2024. <p><i>Exeunt Murderers</i></p>
  2025. <A NAME=3.1.155>It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,</A><br>
  2026. <A NAME=3.1.156>If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.</A><br>
  2027. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  2028. </blockquote>
  2029. <h3>SCENE II. The palace.</h3>
  2030. <p><blockquote>
  2031. <i>Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant</i>
  2032. </blockquote>
  2033. <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2034. <blockquote>
  2035. <A NAME=3.2.1>Is Banquo gone from court?</A><br>
  2036. </blockquote>
  2037. <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
  2038. <blockquote>
  2039. <A NAME=3.2.2>Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.</A><br>
  2040. </blockquote>
  2041. <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2042. <blockquote>
  2043. <A NAME=3.2.3>Say to the king, I would attend his leisure</A><br>
  2044. <A NAME=3.2.4>For a few words.</A><br>
  2045. </blockquote>
  2046. <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
  2047. <blockquote>
  2048. <A NAME=3.2.5> Madam, I will.</A><br>
  2049. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  2050. </blockquote>
  2051. <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2052. <blockquote>
  2053. <A NAME=3.2.6>Nought's had, all's spent,</A><br>
  2054. <A NAME=3.2.7>Where our desire is got without content:</A><br>
  2055. <A NAME=3.2.8>'Tis safer to be that which we destroy</A><br>
  2056. <A NAME=3.2.9>Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.</A><br>
  2057. <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
  2058. <A NAME=3.2.10>How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,</A><br>
  2059. <A NAME=3.2.11>Of sorriest fancies your companions making,</A><br>
  2060. <A NAME=3.2.12>Using those thoughts which should indeed have died</A><br>
  2061. <A NAME=3.2.13>With them they think on? Things without all remedy</A><br>
  2062. <A NAME=3.2.14>Should be without regard: what's done is done.</A><br>
  2063. </blockquote>
  2064. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2065. <blockquote>
  2066. <A NAME=3.2.15>We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:</A><br>
  2067. <A NAME=3.2.16>She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice</A><br>
  2068. <A NAME=3.2.17>Remains in danger of her former tooth.</A><br>
  2069. <A NAME=3.2.18>But let the frame of things disjoint, both the</A><br>
  2070. <A NAME=3.2.19>worlds suffer,</A><br>
  2071. <A NAME=3.2.20>Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep</A><br>
  2072. <A NAME=3.2.21>In the affliction of these terrible dreams</A><br>
  2073. <A NAME=3.2.22>That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,</A><br>
  2074. <A NAME=3.2.23>Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,</A><br>
  2075. <A NAME=3.2.24>Than on the torture of the mind to lie</A><br>
  2076. <A NAME=3.2.25>In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;</A><br>
  2077. <A NAME=3.2.26>After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;</A><br>
  2078. <A NAME=3.2.27>Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,</A><br>
  2079. <A NAME=3.2.28>Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,</A><br>
  2080. <A NAME=3.2.29>Can touch him further.</A><br>
  2081. </blockquote>
  2082. <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2083. <blockquote>
  2084. <A NAME=3.2.30>Come on;</A><br>
  2085. <A NAME=3.2.31>Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;</A><br>
  2086. <A NAME=3.2.32>Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.</A><br>
  2087. </blockquote>
  2088. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2089. <blockquote>
  2090. <A NAME=3.2.33>So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:</A><br>
  2091. <A NAME=3.2.34>Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;</A><br>
  2092. <A NAME=3.2.35>Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:</A><br>
  2093. <A NAME=3.2.36>Unsafe the while, that we</A><br>
  2094. <A NAME=3.2.37>Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,</A><br>
  2095. <A NAME=3.2.38>And make our faces vizards to our hearts,</A><br>
  2096. <A NAME=3.2.39>Disguising what they are.</A><br>
  2097. </blockquote>
  2098. <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2099. <blockquote>
  2100. <A NAME=3.2.40>You must leave this.</A><br>
  2101. </blockquote>
  2102. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2103. <blockquote>
  2104. <A NAME=3.2.41>O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!</A><br>
  2105. <A NAME=3.2.42>Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.</A><br>
  2106. </blockquote>
  2107. <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2108. <blockquote>
  2109. <A NAME=3.2.43>But in them nature's copy's not eterne.</A><br>
  2110. </blockquote>
  2111. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2112. <blockquote>
  2113. <A NAME=3.2.44>There's comfort yet; they are assailable;</A><br>
  2114. <A NAME=3.2.45>Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown</A><br>
  2115. <A NAME=3.2.46>His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons</A><br>
  2116. <A NAME=3.2.47>The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums</A><br>
  2117. <A NAME=3.2.48>Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done</A><br>
  2118. <A NAME=3.2.49>A deed of dreadful note.</A><br>
  2119. </blockquote>
  2120. <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2121. <blockquote>
  2122. <A NAME=3.2.50>What's to be done?</A><br>
  2123. </blockquote>
  2124. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2125. <blockquote>
  2126. <A NAME=3.2.51>Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,</A><br>
  2127. <A NAME=3.2.52>Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,</A><br>
  2128. <A NAME=3.2.53>Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;</A><br>
  2129. <A NAME=3.2.54>And with thy bloody and invisible hand</A><br>
  2130. <A NAME=3.2.55>Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond</A><br>
  2131. <A NAME=3.2.56>Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow</A><br>
  2132. <A NAME=3.2.57>Makes wing to the rooky wood:</A><br>
  2133. <A NAME=3.2.58>Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;</A><br>
  2134. <A NAME=3.2.59>While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.</A><br>
  2135. <A NAME=3.2.60>Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;</A><br>
  2136. <A NAME=3.2.61>Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.</A><br>
  2137. <A NAME=3.2.62>So, prithee, go with me.</A><br>
  2138. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  2139. </blockquote>
  2140. <h3>SCENE III. A park near the palace.</h3>
  2141. <p><blockquote>
  2142. <i>Enter three Murderers</i>
  2143. </blockquote>
  2144. <A NAME=speech1><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2145. <blockquote>
  2146. <A NAME=3.3.1>But who did bid thee join with us?</A><br>
  2147. </blockquote>
  2148. <A NAME=speech2><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2149. <blockquote>
  2150. <A NAME=3.3.2>Macbeth.</A><br>
  2151. </blockquote>
  2152. <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  2153. <blockquote>
  2154. <A NAME=3.3.3>He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers</A><br>
  2155. <A NAME=3.3.4>Our offices and what we have to do</A><br>
  2156. <A NAME=3.3.5>To the direction just.</A><br>
  2157. </blockquote>
  2158. <A NAME=speech4><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2159. <blockquote>
  2160. <A NAME=3.3.6>Then stand with us.</A><br>
  2161. <A NAME=3.3.7>The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:</A><br>
  2162. <A NAME=3.3.8>Now spurs the lated traveller apace</A><br>
  2163. <A NAME=3.3.9>To gain the timely inn; and near approaches</A><br>
  2164. <A NAME=3.3.10>The subject of our watch.</A><br>
  2165. </blockquote>
  2166. <A NAME=speech5><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2167. <blockquote>
  2168. <A NAME=3.3.11>Hark! I hear horses.</A><br>
  2169. </blockquote>
  2170. <A NAME=speech6><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  2171. <blockquote>
  2172. <A NAME=3.3.12>[Within] Give us a light there, ho!</A><br>
  2173. </blockquote>
  2174. <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  2175. <blockquote>
  2176. <A NAME=3.3.13>Then 'tis he: the rest</A><br>
  2177. <A NAME=3.3.14>That are within the note of expectation</A><br>
  2178. <A NAME=3.3.15>Already are i' the court.</A><br>
  2179. </blockquote>
  2180. <A NAME=speech8><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2181. <blockquote>
  2182. <A NAME=3.3.16>His horses go about.</A><br>
  2183. </blockquote>
  2184. <A NAME=speech9><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2185. <blockquote>
  2186. <A NAME=3.3.17>Almost a mile: but he does usually,</A><br>
  2187. <A NAME=3.3.18>So all men do, from hence to the palace gate</A><br>
  2188. <A NAME=3.3.19>Make it their walk.</A><br>
  2189. </blockquote>
  2190. <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  2191. <blockquote>
  2192. <A NAME=3.3.20>A light, a light!</A><br>
  2193. <p><i>Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch</i></p>
  2194. </blockquote>
  2195. <A NAME=speech11><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2196. <blockquote>
  2197. <A NAME=3.3.21>'Tis he.</A><br>
  2198. </blockquote>
  2199. <A NAME=speech12><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2200. <blockquote>
  2201. <A NAME=3.3.22>Stand to't.</A><br>
  2202. </blockquote>
  2203. <A NAME=speech13><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  2204. <blockquote>
  2205. <A NAME=3.3.23>It will be rain to-night.</A><br>
  2206. </blockquote>
  2207. <A NAME=speech14><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2208. <blockquote>
  2209. <A NAME=3.3.24>Let it come down.</A><br>
  2210. <p><i>They set upon BANQUO</i></p>
  2211. </blockquote>
  2212. <A NAME=speech15><b>BANQUO</b></a>
  2213. <blockquote>
  2214. <A NAME=3.3.25>O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!</A><br>
  2215. <A NAME=3.3.26>Thou mayst revenge. O slave!</A><br>
  2216. <p><i>Dies. FLEANCE escapes</i></p>
  2217. </blockquote>
  2218. <A NAME=speech16><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2219. <blockquote>
  2220. <A NAME=3.3.27>Who did strike out the light?</A><br>
  2221. </blockquote>
  2222. <A NAME=speech17><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2223. <blockquote>
  2224. <A NAME=3.3.28>Wast not the way?</A><br>
  2225. </blockquote>
  2226. <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Murderer</b></a>
  2227. <blockquote>
  2228. <A NAME=3.3.29>There's but one down; the son is fled.</A><br>
  2229. </blockquote>
  2230. <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Murderer</b></a>
  2231. <blockquote>
  2232. <A NAME=3.3.30>We have lost</A><br>
  2233. <A NAME=3.3.31>Best half of our affair.</A><br>
  2234. </blockquote>
  2235. <A NAME=speech20><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2236. <blockquote>
  2237. <A NAME=3.3.32>Well, let's away, and say how much is done.</A><br>
  2238. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  2239. </blockquote>
  2240. <h3>SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.</h3>
  2241. <p><blockquote>
  2242. <i>A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants</i>
  2243. </blockquote>
  2244. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2245. <blockquote>
  2246. <A NAME=3.4.1>You know your own degrees; sit down: at first</A><br>
  2247. <A NAME=3.4.2>And last the hearty welcome.</A><br>
  2248. </blockquote>
  2249. <A NAME=speech2><b>Lords</b></a>
  2250. <blockquote>
  2251. <A NAME=3.4.3>Thanks to your majesty.</A><br>
  2252. </blockquote>
  2253. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2254. <blockquote>
  2255. <A NAME=3.4.4>Ourself will mingle with society,</A><br>
  2256. <A NAME=3.4.5>And play the humble host.</A><br>
  2257. <A NAME=3.4.6>Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time</A><br>
  2258. <A NAME=3.4.7>We will require her welcome.</A><br>
  2259. </blockquote>
  2260. <A NAME=speech4><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2261. <blockquote>
  2262. <A NAME=3.4.8>Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;</A><br>
  2263. <A NAME=3.4.9>For my heart speaks they are welcome.</A><br>
  2264. <p><i>First Murderer appears at the door</i></p>
  2265. </blockquote>
  2266. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2267. <blockquote>
  2268. <A NAME=3.4.10>See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.</A><br>
  2269. <A NAME=3.4.11>Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:</A><br>
  2270. <A NAME=3.4.12>Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure</A><br>
  2271. <A NAME=3.4.13>The table round.</A><br>
  2272. <p><i>Approaching the door</i></p>
  2273. <A NAME=3.4.14>There's blood on thy face.</A><br>
  2274. </blockquote>
  2275. <A NAME=speech6><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2276. <blockquote>
  2277. <A NAME=3.4.15>'Tis Banquo's then.</A><br>
  2278. </blockquote>
  2279. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2280. <blockquote>
  2281. <A NAME=3.4.16>'Tis better thee without than he within.</A><br>
  2282. <A NAME=3.4.17>Is he dispatch'd?</A><br>
  2283. </blockquote>
  2284. <A NAME=speech8><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2285. <blockquote>
  2286. <A NAME=3.4.18>My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.</A><br>
  2287. </blockquote>
  2288. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2289. <blockquote>
  2290. <A NAME=3.4.19>Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good</A><br>
  2291. <A NAME=3.4.20>That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,</A><br>
  2292. <A NAME=3.4.21>Thou art the nonpareil.</A><br>
  2293. </blockquote>
  2294. <A NAME=speech10><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2295. <blockquote>
  2296. <A NAME=3.4.22>Most royal sir,</A><br>
  2297. <A NAME=3.4.23>Fleance is 'scaped.</A><br>
  2298. </blockquote>
  2299. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2300. <blockquote>
  2301. <A NAME=3.4.24>Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,</A><br>
  2302. <A NAME=3.4.25>Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,</A><br>
  2303. <A NAME=3.4.26>As broad and general as the casing air:</A><br>
  2304. <A NAME=3.4.27>But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in</A><br>
  2305. <A NAME=3.4.28>To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?</A><br>
  2306. </blockquote>
  2307. <A NAME=speech12><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  2308. <blockquote>
  2309. <A NAME=3.4.29>Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,</A><br>
  2310. <A NAME=3.4.30>With twenty trenched gashes on his head;</A><br>
  2311. <A NAME=3.4.31>The least a death to nature.</A><br>
  2312. </blockquote>
  2313. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2314. <blockquote>
  2315. <A NAME=3.4.32>Thanks for that:</A><br>
  2316. <A NAME=3.4.33>There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled</A><br>
  2317. <A NAME=3.4.34>Hath nature that in time will venom breed,</A><br>
  2318. <A NAME=3.4.35>No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow</A><br>
  2319. <A NAME=3.4.36>We'll hear, ourselves, again.</A><br>
  2320. <p><i>Exit Murderer</i></p>
  2321. </blockquote>
  2322. <A NAME=speech14><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2323. <blockquote>
  2324. <A NAME=3.4.37>My royal lord,</A><br>
  2325. <A NAME=3.4.38>You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold</A><br>
  2326. <A NAME=3.4.39>That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,</A><br>
  2327. <A NAME=3.4.40>'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;</A><br>
  2328. <A NAME=3.4.41>From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;</A><br>
  2329. <A NAME=3.4.42>Meeting were bare without it.</A><br>
  2330. </blockquote>
  2331. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2332. <blockquote>
  2333. <A NAME=3.4.43>Sweet remembrancer!</A><br>
  2334. <A NAME=3.4.44>Now, good digestion wait on appetite,</A><br>
  2335. <A NAME=3.4.45>And health on both!</A><br>
  2336. </blockquote>
  2337. <A NAME=speech16><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2338. <blockquote>
  2339. <A NAME=3.4.46>May't please your highness sit.</A><br>
  2340. <p><i>The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place</i></p>
  2341. </blockquote>
  2342. <A NAME=speech17><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2343. <blockquote>
  2344. <A NAME=3.4.47>Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,</A><br>
  2345. <A NAME=3.4.48>Were the graced person of our Banquo present;</A><br>
  2346. <A NAME=3.4.49>Who may I rather challenge for unkindness</A><br>
  2347. <A NAME=3.4.50>Than pity for mischance!</A><br>
  2348. </blockquote>
  2349. <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSS</b></a>
  2350. <blockquote>
  2351. <A NAME=3.4.51>His absence, sir,</A><br>
  2352. <A NAME=3.4.52>Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness</A><br>
  2353. <A NAME=3.4.53>To grace us with your royal company.</A><br>
  2354. </blockquote>
  2355. <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2356. <blockquote>
  2357. <A NAME=3.4.54>The table's full.</A><br>
  2358. </blockquote>
  2359. <A NAME=speech20><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2360. <blockquote>
  2361. <A NAME=3.4.55> Here is a place reserved, sir.</A><br>
  2362. </blockquote>
  2363. <A NAME=speech21><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2364. <blockquote>
  2365. <A NAME=3.4.56>Where?</A><br>
  2366. </blockquote>
  2367. <A NAME=speech22><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2368. <blockquote>
  2369. <A NAME=3.4.57>Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?</A><br>
  2370. </blockquote>
  2371. <A NAME=speech23><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2372. <blockquote>
  2373. <A NAME=3.4.58>Which of you have done this?</A><br>
  2374. </blockquote>
  2375. <A NAME=speech24><b>Lords</b></a>
  2376. <blockquote>
  2377. <A NAME=3.4.59>What, my good lord?</A><br>
  2378. </blockquote>
  2379. <A NAME=speech25><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2380. <blockquote>
  2381. <A NAME=3.4.60>Thou canst not say I did it: never shake</A><br>
  2382. <A NAME=3.4.61>Thy gory locks at me.</A><br>
  2383. </blockquote>
  2384. <A NAME=speech26><b>ROSS</b></a>
  2385. <blockquote>
  2386. <A NAME=3.4.62>Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.</A><br>
  2387. </blockquote>
  2388. <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2389. <blockquote>
  2390. <A NAME=3.4.63>Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,</A><br>
  2391. <A NAME=3.4.64>And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;</A><br>
  2392. <A NAME=3.4.65>The fit is momentary; upon a thought</A><br>
  2393. <A NAME=3.4.66>He will again be well: if much you note him,</A><br>
  2394. <A NAME=3.4.67>You shall offend him and extend his passion:</A><br>
  2395. <A NAME=3.4.68>Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?</A><br>
  2396. </blockquote>
  2397. <A NAME=speech28><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2398. <blockquote>
  2399. <A NAME=3.4.69>Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that</A><br>
  2400. <A NAME=3.4.70>Which might appal the devil.</A><br>
  2401. </blockquote>
  2402. <A NAME=speech29><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2403. <blockquote>
  2404. <A NAME=3.4.71>O proper stuff!</A><br>
  2405. <A NAME=3.4.72>This is the very painting of your fear:</A><br>
  2406. <A NAME=3.4.73>This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,</A><br>
  2407. <A NAME=3.4.74>Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,</A><br>
  2408. <A NAME=3.4.75>Impostors to true fear, would well become</A><br>
  2409. <A NAME=3.4.76>A woman's story at a winter's fire,</A><br>
  2410. <A NAME=3.4.77>Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!</A><br>
  2411. <A NAME=3.4.78>Why do you make such faces? When all's done,</A><br>
  2412. <A NAME=3.4.79>You look but on a stool.</A><br>
  2413. </blockquote>
  2414. <A NAME=speech30><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2415. <blockquote>
  2416. <A NAME=3.4.80>Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!</A><br>
  2417. <A NAME=3.4.81>how say you?</A><br>
  2418. <A NAME=3.4.82>Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.</A><br>
  2419. <A NAME=3.4.83>If charnel-houses and our graves must send</A><br>
  2420. <A NAME=3.4.84>Those that we bury back, our monuments</A><br>
  2421. <A NAME=3.4.85>Shall be the maws of kites.</A><br>
  2422. <p><i>GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</i></p>
  2423. </blockquote>
  2424. <A NAME=speech31><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2425. <blockquote>
  2426. <A NAME=3.4.86>What, quite unmann'd in folly?</A><br>
  2427. </blockquote>
  2428. <A NAME=speech32><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2429. <blockquote>
  2430. <A NAME=3.4.87>If I stand here, I saw him.</A><br>
  2431. </blockquote>
  2432. <A NAME=speech33><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2433. <blockquote>
  2434. <A NAME=3.4.88>Fie, for shame!</A><br>
  2435. </blockquote>
  2436. <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2437. <blockquote>
  2438. <A NAME=3.4.89>Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,</A><br>
  2439. <A NAME=3.4.90>Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;</A><br>
  2440. <A NAME=3.4.91>Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd</A><br>
  2441. <A NAME=3.4.92>Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,</A><br>
  2442. <A NAME=3.4.93>That, when the brains were out, the man would die,</A><br>
  2443. <A NAME=3.4.94>And there an end; but now they rise again,</A><br>
  2444. <A NAME=3.4.95>With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,</A><br>
  2445. <A NAME=3.4.96>And push us from our stools: this is more strange</A><br>
  2446. <A NAME=3.4.97>Than such a murder is.</A><br>
  2447. </blockquote>
  2448. <A NAME=speech35><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2449. <blockquote>
  2450. <A NAME=3.4.98>My worthy lord,</A><br>
  2451. <A NAME=3.4.99>Your noble friends do lack you.</A><br>
  2452. </blockquote>
  2453. <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2454. <blockquote>
  2455. <A NAME=3.4.100>I do forget.</A><br>
  2456. <A NAME=3.4.101>Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,</A><br>
  2457. <A NAME=3.4.102>I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing</A><br>
  2458. <A NAME=3.4.103>To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;</A><br>
  2459. <A NAME=3.4.104>Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.</A><br>
  2460. <A NAME=3.4.105>I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,</A><br>
  2461. <A NAME=3.4.106>And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;</A><br>
  2462. <A NAME=3.4.107>Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,</A><br>
  2463. <A NAME=3.4.108>And all to all.</A><br>
  2464. </blockquote>
  2465. <A NAME=speech37><b>Lords</b></a>
  2466. <blockquote>
  2467. <A NAME=3.4.109> Our duties, and the pledge.</A><br>
  2468. <p><i>Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO</i></p>
  2469. </blockquote>
  2470. <A NAME=speech38><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2471. <blockquote>
  2472. <A NAME=3.4.110>Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!</A><br>
  2473. <A NAME=3.4.111>Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;</A><br>
  2474. <A NAME=3.4.112>Thou hast no speculation in those eyes</A><br>
  2475. <A NAME=3.4.113>Which thou dost glare with!</A><br>
  2476. </blockquote>
  2477. <A NAME=speech39><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2478. <blockquote>
  2479. <A NAME=3.4.114>Think of this, good peers,</A><br>
  2480. <A NAME=3.4.115>But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;</A><br>
  2481. <A NAME=3.4.116>Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.</A><br>
  2482. </blockquote>
  2483. <A NAME=speech40><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2484. <blockquote>
  2485. <A NAME=3.4.117>What man dare, I dare:</A><br>
  2486. <A NAME=3.4.118>Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,</A><br>
  2487. <A NAME=3.4.119>The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;</A><br>
  2488. <A NAME=3.4.120>Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves</A><br>
  2489. <A NAME=3.4.121>Shall never tremble: or be alive again,</A><br>
  2490. <A NAME=3.4.122>And dare me to the desert with thy sword;</A><br>
  2491. <A NAME=3.4.123>If trembling I inhabit then, protest me</A><br>
  2492. <A NAME=3.4.124>The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!</A><br>
  2493. <A NAME=3.4.125>Unreal mockery, hence!</A><br>
  2494. <p><i>GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes</i></p>
  2495. <A NAME=3.4.126>Why, so: being gone,</A><br>
  2496. <A NAME=3.4.127>I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.</A><br>
  2497. </blockquote>
  2498. <A NAME=speech41><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2499. <blockquote>
  2500. <A NAME=3.4.128>You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,</A><br>
  2501. <A NAME=3.4.129>With most admired disorder.</A><br>
  2502. </blockquote>
  2503. <A NAME=speech42><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2504. <blockquote>
  2505. <A NAME=3.4.130>Can such things be,</A><br>
  2506. <A NAME=3.4.131>And overcome us like a summer's cloud,</A><br>
  2507. <A NAME=3.4.132>Without our special wonder? You make me strange</A><br>
  2508. <A NAME=3.4.133>Even to the disposition that I owe,</A><br>
  2509. <A NAME=3.4.134>When now I think you can behold such sights,</A><br>
  2510. <A NAME=3.4.135>And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,</A><br>
  2511. <A NAME=3.4.136>When mine is blanched with fear.</A><br>
  2512. </blockquote>
  2513. <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSS</b></a>
  2514. <blockquote>
  2515. <A NAME=3.4.137>What sights, my lord?</A><br>
  2516. </blockquote>
  2517. <A NAME=speech44><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2518. <blockquote>
  2519. <A NAME=3.4.138>I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;</A><br>
  2520. <A NAME=3.4.139>Question enrages him. At once, good night:</A><br>
  2521. <A NAME=3.4.140>Stand not upon the order of your going,</A><br>
  2522. <A NAME=3.4.141>But go at once.</A><br>
  2523. </blockquote>
  2524. <A NAME=speech45><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2525. <blockquote>
  2526. <A NAME=3.4.142> Good night; and better health</A><br>
  2527. <A NAME=3.4.143>Attend his majesty!</A><br>
  2528. </blockquote>
  2529. <A NAME=speech46><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2530. <blockquote>
  2531. <A NAME=3.4.144>A kind good night to all!</A><br>
  2532. <p><i>Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH</i></p>
  2533. </blockquote>
  2534. <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2535. <blockquote>
  2536. <A NAME=3.4.145>It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:</A><br>
  2537. <A NAME=3.4.146>Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;</A><br>
  2538. <A NAME=3.4.147>Augurs and understood relations have</A><br>
  2539. <A NAME=3.4.148>By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth</A><br>
  2540. <A NAME=3.4.149>The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?</A><br>
  2541. </blockquote>
  2542. <A NAME=speech48><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2543. <blockquote>
  2544. <A NAME=3.4.150>Almost at odds with morning, which is which.</A><br>
  2545. </blockquote>
  2546. <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2547. <blockquote>
  2548. <A NAME=3.4.151>How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person</A><br>
  2549. <A NAME=3.4.152>At our great bidding?</A><br>
  2550. </blockquote>
  2551. <A NAME=speech50><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2552. <blockquote>
  2553. <A NAME=3.4.153>Did you send to him, sir?</A><br>
  2554. </blockquote>
  2555. <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2556. <blockquote>
  2557. <A NAME=3.4.154>I hear it by the way; but I will send:</A><br>
  2558. <A NAME=3.4.155>There's not a one of them but in his house</A><br>
  2559. <A NAME=3.4.156>I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,</A><br>
  2560. <A NAME=3.4.157>And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:</A><br>
  2561. <A NAME=3.4.158>More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,</A><br>
  2562. <A NAME=3.4.159>By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,</A><br>
  2563. <A NAME=3.4.160>All causes shall give way: I am in blood</A><br>
  2564. <A NAME=3.4.161>Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,</A><br>
  2565. <A NAME=3.4.162>Returning were as tedious as go o'er:</A><br>
  2566. <A NAME=3.4.163>Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;</A><br>
  2567. <A NAME=3.4.164>Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.</A><br>
  2568. </blockquote>
  2569. <A NAME=speech52><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  2570. <blockquote>
  2571. <A NAME=3.4.165>You lack the season of all natures, sleep.</A><br>
  2572. </blockquote>
  2573. <A NAME=speech53><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2574. <blockquote>
  2575. <A NAME=3.4.166>Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse</A><br>
  2576. <A NAME=3.4.167>Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:</A><br>
  2577. <A NAME=3.4.168>We are yet but young in deed.</A><br>
  2578. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  2579. </blockquote>
  2580. <h3>SCENE V. A Heath.</h3>
  2581. <p><blockquote>
  2582. <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE</i>
  2583. </blockquote>
  2584. <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2585. <blockquote>
  2586. <A NAME=3.5.1>Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.</A><br>
  2587. </blockquote>
  2588. <A NAME=speech2><b>HECATE</b></a>
  2589. <blockquote>
  2590. <A NAME=3.5.2>Have I not reason, beldams as you are,</A><br>
  2591. <A NAME=3.5.3>Saucy and overbold? How did you dare</A><br>
  2592. <A NAME=3.5.4>To trade and traffic with Macbeth</A><br>
  2593. <A NAME=3.5.5>In riddles and affairs of death;</A><br>
  2594. <A NAME=3.5.6>And I, the mistress of your charms,</A><br>
  2595. <A NAME=3.5.7>The close contriver of all harms,</A><br>
  2596. <A NAME=3.5.8>Was never call'd to bear my part,</A><br>
  2597. <A NAME=3.5.9>Or show the glory of our art?</A><br>
  2598. <A NAME=3.5.10>And, which is worse, all you have done</A><br>
  2599. <A NAME=3.5.11>Hath been but for a wayward son,</A><br>
  2600. <A NAME=3.5.12>Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,</A><br>
  2601. <A NAME=3.5.13>Loves for his own ends, not for you.</A><br>
  2602. <A NAME=3.5.14>But make amends now: get you gone,</A><br>
  2603. <A NAME=3.5.15>And at the pit of Acheron</A><br>
  2604. <A NAME=3.5.16>Meet me i' the morning: thither he</A><br>
  2605. <A NAME=3.5.17>Will come to know his destiny:</A><br>
  2606. <A NAME=3.5.18>Your vessels and your spells provide,</A><br>
  2607. <A NAME=3.5.19>Your charms and every thing beside.</A><br>
  2608. <A NAME=3.5.20>I am for the air; this night I'll spend</A><br>
  2609. <A NAME=3.5.21>Unto a dismal and a fatal end:</A><br>
  2610. <A NAME=3.5.22>Great business must be wrought ere noon:</A><br>
  2611. <A NAME=3.5.23>Upon the corner of the moon</A><br>
  2612. <A NAME=3.5.24>There hangs a vaporous drop profound;</A><br>
  2613. <A NAME=3.5.25>I'll catch it ere it come to ground:</A><br>
  2614. <A NAME=3.5.26>And that distill'd by magic sleights</A><br>
  2615. <A NAME=3.5.27>Shall raise such artificial sprites</A><br>
  2616. <A NAME=3.5.28>As by the strength of their illusion</A><br>
  2617. <A NAME=3.5.29>Shall draw him on to his confusion:</A><br>
  2618. <A NAME=3.5.30>He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear</A><br>
  2619. <A NAME=3.5.31>He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:</A><br>
  2620. <A NAME=3.5.32>And you all know, security</A><br>
  2621. <A NAME=3.5.33>Is mortals' chiefest enemy.</A><br>
  2622. <p><i>Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' & c</i></p>
  2623. <A NAME=3.5.34>Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,</A><br>
  2624. <A NAME=3.5.35>Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.</A><br>
  2625. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  2626. </blockquote>
  2627. <A NAME=speech3><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2628. <blockquote>
  2629. <A NAME=3.5.36>Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.</A><br>
  2630. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  2631. </blockquote>
  2632. <h3>SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.</h3>
  2633. <p><blockquote>
  2634. <i>Enter LENNOX and another Lord</i>
  2635. </blockquote>
  2636. <A NAME=speech1><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2637. <blockquote>
  2638. <A NAME=3.6.1>My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,</A><br>
  2639. <A NAME=3.6.2>Which can interpret further: only, I say,</A><br>
  2640. <A NAME=3.6.3>Things have been strangely borne. The</A><br>
  2641. <A NAME=3.6.4>gracious Duncan</A><br>
  2642. <A NAME=3.6.5>Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:</A><br>
  2643. <A NAME=3.6.6>And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;</A><br>
  2644. <A NAME=3.6.7>Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,</A><br>
  2645. <A NAME=3.6.8>For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.</A><br>
  2646. <A NAME=3.6.9>Who cannot want the thought how monstrous</A><br>
  2647. <A NAME=3.6.10>It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain</A><br>
  2648. <A NAME=3.6.11>To kill their gracious father? damned fact!</A><br>
  2649. <A NAME=3.6.12>How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight</A><br>
  2650. <A NAME=3.6.13>In pious rage the two delinquents tear,</A><br>
  2651. <A NAME=3.6.14>That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?</A><br>
  2652. <A NAME=3.6.15>Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;</A><br>
  2653. <A NAME=3.6.16>For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive</A><br>
  2654. <A NAME=3.6.17>To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,</A><br>
  2655. <A NAME=3.6.18>He has borne all things well: and I do think</A><br>
  2656. <A NAME=3.6.19>That had he Duncan's sons under his key--</A><br>
  2657. <A NAME=3.6.20>As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they</A><br>
  2658. <A NAME=3.6.21>should find</A><br>
  2659. <A NAME=3.6.22>What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.</A><br>
  2660. <A NAME=3.6.23>But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd</A><br>
  2661. <A NAME=3.6.24>His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear</A><br>
  2662. <A NAME=3.6.25>Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell</A><br>
  2663. <A NAME=3.6.26>Where he bestows himself?</A><br>
  2664. </blockquote>
  2665. <A NAME=speech2><b>Lord</b></a>
  2666. <blockquote>
  2667. <A NAME=3.6.27>The son of Duncan,</A><br>
  2668. <A NAME=3.6.28>From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth</A><br>
  2669. <A NAME=3.6.29>Lives in the English court, and is received</A><br>
  2670. <A NAME=3.6.30>Of the most pious Edward with such grace</A><br>
  2671. <A NAME=3.6.31>That the malevolence of fortune nothing</A><br>
  2672. <A NAME=3.6.32>Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff</A><br>
  2673. <A NAME=3.6.33>Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid</A><br>
  2674. <A NAME=3.6.34>To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:</A><br>
  2675. <A NAME=3.6.35>That, by the help of these--with Him above</A><br>
  2676. <A NAME=3.6.36>To ratify the work--we may again</A><br>
  2677. <A NAME=3.6.37>Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,</A><br>
  2678. <A NAME=3.6.38>Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,</A><br>
  2679. <A NAME=3.6.39>Do faithful homage and receive free honours:</A><br>
  2680. <A NAME=3.6.40>All which we pine for now: and this report</A><br>
  2681. <A NAME=3.6.41>Hath so exasperate the king that he</A><br>
  2682. <A NAME=3.6.42>Prepares for some attempt of war.</A><br>
  2683. </blockquote>
  2684. <A NAME=speech3><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2685. <blockquote>
  2686. <A NAME=3.6.43>Sent he to Macduff?</A><br>
  2687. </blockquote>
  2688. <A NAME=speech4><b>Lord</b></a>
  2689. <blockquote>
  2690. <A NAME=3.6.44>He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'</A><br>
  2691. <A NAME=3.6.45>The cloudy messenger turns me his back,</A><br>
  2692. <A NAME=3.6.46>And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time</A><br>
  2693. <A NAME=3.6.47>That clogs me with this answer.'</A><br>
  2694. </blockquote>
  2695. <A NAME=speech5><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  2696. <blockquote>
  2697. <A NAME=3.6.48>And that well might</A><br>
  2698. <A NAME=3.6.49>Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance</A><br>
  2699. <A NAME=3.6.50>His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel</A><br>
  2700. <A NAME=3.6.51>Fly to the court of England and unfold</A><br>
  2701. <A NAME=3.6.52>His message ere he come, that a swift blessing</A><br>
  2702. <A NAME=3.6.53>May soon return to this our suffering country</A><br>
  2703. <A NAME=3.6.54>Under a hand accursed!</A><br>
  2704. </blockquote>
  2705. <A NAME=speech6><b>Lord</b></a>
  2706. <blockquote>
  2707. <A NAME=3.6.55>I'll send my prayers with him.</A><br>
  2708. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  2709. </blockquote><p>
  2710. <H3>ACT IV</h3>
  2711. <h3>SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.</h3>
  2712. <p><blockquote>
  2713. <i>Thunder. Enter the three Witches</i>
  2714. </blockquote>
  2715. <A NAME=speech1><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2716. <blockquote>
  2717. <A NAME=4.1.1>Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.</A><br>
  2718. </blockquote>
  2719. <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2720. <blockquote>
  2721. <A NAME=4.1.2>Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.</A><br>
  2722. </blockquote>
  2723. <A NAME=speech3><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  2724. <blockquote>
  2725. <A NAME=4.1.3>Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.</A><br>
  2726. </blockquote>
  2727. <A NAME=speech4><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2728. <blockquote>
  2729. <A NAME=4.1.4>Round about the cauldron go;</A><br>
  2730. <A NAME=4.1.5>In the poison'd entrails throw.</A><br>
  2731. <A NAME=4.1.6>Toad, that under cold stone</A><br>
  2732. <A NAME=4.1.7>Days and nights has thirty-one</A><br>
  2733. <A NAME=4.1.8>Swelter'd venom sleeping got,</A><br>
  2734. <A NAME=4.1.9>Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.</A><br>
  2735. </blockquote>
  2736. <A NAME=speech5><b>ALL</b></a>
  2737. <blockquote>
  2738. <A NAME=4.1.10>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
  2739. <A NAME=4.1.11>Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
  2740. </blockquote>
  2741. <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2742. <blockquote>
  2743. <A NAME=4.1.12>Fillet of a fenny snake,</A><br>
  2744. <A NAME=4.1.13>In the cauldron boil and bake;</A><br>
  2745. <A NAME=4.1.14>Eye of newt and toe of frog,</A><br>
  2746. <A NAME=4.1.15>Wool of bat and tongue of dog,</A><br>
  2747. <A NAME=4.1.16>Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,</A><br>
  2748. <A NAME=4.1.17>Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,</A><br>
  2749. <A NAME=4.1.18>For a charm of powerful trouble,</A><br>
  2750. <A NAME=4.1.19>Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.</A><br>
  2751. </blockquote>
  2752. <A NAME=speech7><b>ALL</b></a>
  2753. <blockquote>
  2754. <A NAME=4.1.20>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
  2755. <A NAME=4.1.21>Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
  2756. </blockquote>
  2757. <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  2758. <blockquote>
  2759. <A NAME=4.1.22>Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,</A><br>
  2760. <A NAME=4.1.23>Witches' mummy, maw and gulf</A><br>
  2761. <A NAME=4.1.24>Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,</A><br>
  2762. <A NAME=4.1.25>Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,</A><br>
  2763. <A NAME=4.1.26>Liver of blaspheming Jew,</A><br>
  2764. <A NAME=4.1.27>Gall of goat, and slips of yew</A><br>
  2765. <A NAME=4.1.28>Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,</A><br>
  2766. <A NAME=4.1.29>Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,</A><br>
  2767. <A NAME=4.1.30>Finger of birth-strangled babe</A><br>
  2768. <A NAME=4.1.31>Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,</A><br>
  2769. <A NAME=4.1.32>Make the gruel thick and slab:</A><br>
  2770. <A NAME=4.1.33>Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,</A><br>
  2771. <A NAME=4.1.34>For the ingredients of our cauldron.</A><br>
  2772. </blockquote>
  2773. <A NAME=speech9><b>ALL</b></a>
  2774. <blockquote>
  2775. <A NAME=4.1.35>Double, double toil and trouble;</A><br>
  2776. <A NAME=4.1.36>Fire burn and cauldron bubble.</A><br>
  2777. </blockquote>
  2778. <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2779. <blockquote>
  2780. <A NAME=4.1.37>Cool it with a baboon's blood,</A><br>
  2781. <A NAME=4.1.38>Then the charm is firm and good.</A><br>
  2782. <p><i>Enter HECATE to the other three Witches</i></p>
  2783. </blockquote>
  2784. <A NAME=speech11><b>HECATE</b></a>
  2785. <blockquote>
  2786. <A NAME=4.1.39>O well done! I commend your pains;</A><br>
  2787. <A NAME=4.1.40>And every one shall share i' the gains;</A><br>
  2788. <A NAME=4.1.41>And now about the cauldron sing,</A><br>
  2789. <A NAME=4.1.42>Live elves and fairies in a ring,</A><br>
  2790. <A NAME=4.1.43>Enchanting all that you put in.</A><br>
  2791. <p><i>Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c</i></p>
  2792. <p><i>HECATE retires</i></p>
  2793. </blockquote>
  2794. <A NAME=speech12><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2795. <blockquote>
  2796. <A NAME=4.1.44>By the pricking of my thumbs,</A><br>
  2797. <A NAME=4.1.45>Something wicked this way comes.</A><br>
  2798. <A NAME=4.1.46>Open, locks,</A><br>
  2799. <A NAME=4.1.47>Whoever knocks!</A><br>
  2800. <p><i>Enter MACBETH</i></p>
  2801. </blockquote>
  2802. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2803. <blockquote>
  2804. <A NAME=4.1.48>How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!</A><br>
  2805. <A NAME=4.1.49>What is't you do?</A><br>
  2806. </blockquote>
  2807. <A NAME=speech14><b>ALL</b></a>
  2808. <blockquote>
  2809. <A NAME=4.1.50> A deed without a name.</A><br>
  2810. </blockquote>
  2811. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2812. <blockquote>
  2813. <A NAME=4.1.51>I conjure you, by that which you profess,</A><br>
  2814. <A NAME=4.1.52>Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:</A><br>
  2815. <A NAME=4.1.53>Though you untie the winds and let them fight</A><br>
  2816. <A NAME=4.1.54>Against the churches; though the yesty waves</A><br>
  2817. <A NAME=4.1.55>Confound and swallow navigation up;</A><br>
  2818. <A NAME=4.1.56>Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;</A><br>
  2819. <A NAME=4.1.57>Though castles topple on their warders' heads;</A><br>
  2820. <A NAME=4.1.58>Though palaces and pyramids do slope</A><br>
  2821. <A NAME=4.1.59>Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure</A><br>
  2822. <A NAME=4.1.60>Of nature's germens tumble all together,</A><br>
  2823. <A NAME=4.1.61>Even till destruction sicken; answer me</A><br>
  2824. <A NAME=4.1.62>To what I ask you.</A><br>
  2825. </blockquote>
  2826. <A NAME=speech16><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2827. <blockquote>
  2828. <A NAME=4.1.63> Speak.</A><br>
  2829. </blockquote>
  2830. <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2831. <blockquote>
  2832. <A NAME=4.1.64>Demand.</A><br>
  2833. </blockquote>
  2834. <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  2835. <blockquote>
  2836. <A NAME=4.1.65>We'll answer.</A><br>
  2837. </blockquote>
  2838. <A NAME=speech19><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2839. <blockquote>
  2840. <A NAME=4.1.66>Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,</A><br>
  2841. <A NAME=4.1.67>Or from our masters?</A><br>
  2842. </blockquote>
  2843. <A NAME=speech20><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2844. <blockquote>
  2845. <A NAME=4.1.68>Call 'em; let me see 'em.</A><br>
  2846. </blockquote>
  2847. <A NAME=speech21><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2848. <blockquote>
  2849. <A NAME=4.1.69>Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten</A><br>
  2850. <A NAME=4.1.70>Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten</A><br>
  2851. <A NAME=4.1.71>From the murderer's gibbet throw</A><br>
  2852. <A NAME=4.1.72>Into the flame.</A><br>
  2853. </blockquote>
  2854. <A NAME=speech22><b>ALL</b></a>
  2855. <blockquote>
  2856. <A NAME=4.1.73> Come, high or low;</A><br>
  2857. <A NAME=4.1.74>Thyself and office deftly show!</A><br>
  2858. <p><i>Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head</i></p>
  2859. </blockquote>
  2860. <A NAME=speech23><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2861. <blockquote>
  2862. <A NAME=4.1.75>Tell me, thou unknown power,--</A><br>
  2863. </blockquote>
  2864. <A NAME=speech24><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2865. <blockquote>
  2866. <A NAME=4.1.76>He knows thy thought:</A><br>
  2867. <A NAME=4.1.77>Hear his speech, but say thou nought.</A><br>
  2868. </blockquote>
  2869. <A NAME=speech25><b>First Apparition</b></a>
  2870. <blockquote>
  2871. <A NAME=4.1.78>Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;</A><br>
  2872. <A NAME=4.1.79>Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.</A><br>
  2873. <p><i>Descends</i></p>
  2874. </blockquote>
  2875. <A NAME=speech26><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2876. <blockquote>
  2877. <A NAME=4.1.80>Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;</A><br>
  2878. <A NAME=4.1.81>Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one</A><br>
  2879. <A NAME=4.1.82>word more,--</A><br>
  2880. </blockquote>
  2881. <A NAME=speech27><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2882. <blockquote>
  2883. <A NAME=4.1.83>He will not be commanded: here's another,</A><br>
  2884. <A NAME=4.1.84>More potent than the first.</A><br>
  2885. <p><i>Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child</i></p>
  2886. </blockquote>
  2887. <A NAME=speech28><b>Second Apparition</b></a>
  2888. <blockquote>
  2889. <A NAME=4.1.85>Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!</A><br>
  2890. </blockquote>
  2891. <A NAME=speech29><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2892. <blockquote>
  2893. <A NAME=4.1.86>Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.</A><br>
  2894. </blockquote>
  2895. <A NAME=speech30><b>Second Apparition</b></a>
  2896. <blockquote>
  2897. <A NAME=4.1.87>Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn</A><br>
  2898. <A NAME=4.1.88>The power of man, for none of woman born</A><br>
  2899. <A NAME=4.1.89>Shall harm Macbeth.</A><br>
  2900. <p><i>Descends</i></p>
  2901. </blockquote>
  2902. <A NAME=speech31><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2903. <blockquote>
  2904. <A NAME=4.1.90>Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?</A><br>
  2905. <A NAME=4.1.91>But yet I'll make assurance double sure,</A><br>
  2906. <A NAME=4.1.92>And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;</A><br>
  2907. <A NAME=4.1.93>That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,</A><br>
  2908. <A NAME=4.1.94>And sleep in spite of thunder.</A><br>
  2909. <p><i>Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand</i></p>
  2910. <A NAME=4.1.95>What is this</A><br>
  2911. <A NAME=4.1.96>That rises like the issue of a king,</A><br>
  2912. <A NAME=4.1.97>And wears upon his baby-brow the round</A><br>
  2913. <A NAME=4.1.98>And top of sovereignty?</A><br>
  2914. </blockquote>
  2915. <A NAME=speech32><b>ALL</b></a>
  2916. <blockquote>
  2917. <A NAME=4.1.99>Listen, but speak not to't.</A><br>
  2918. </blockquote>
  2919. <A NAME=speech33><b>Third Apparition</b></a>
  2920. <blockquote>
  2921. <A NAME=4.1.100>Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care</A><br>
  2922. <A NAME=4.1.101>Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:</A><br>
  2923. <A NAME=4.1.102>Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until</A><br>
  2924. <A NAME=4.1.103>Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill</A><br>
  2925. <A NAME=4.1.104>Shall come against him.</A><br>
  2926. <p><i>Descends</i></p>
  2927. </blockquote>
  2928. <A NAME=speech34><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2929. <blockquote>
  2930. <A NAME=4.1.105>That will never be</A><br>
  2931. <A NAME=4.1.106>Who can impress the forest, bid the tree</A><br>
  2932. <A NAME=4.1.107>Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!</A><br>
  2933. <A NAME=4.1.108>Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood</A><br>
  2934. <A NAME=4.1.109>Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth</A><br>
  2935. <A NAME=4.1.110>Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath</A><br>
  2936. <A NAME=4.1.111>To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart</A><br>
  2937. <A NAME=4.1.112>Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art</A><br>
  2938. <A NAME=4.1.113>Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever</A><br>
  2939. <A NAME=4.1.114>Reign in this kingdom?</A><br>
  2940. </blockquote>
  2941. <A NAME=speech35><b>ALL</b></a>
  2942. <blockquote>
  2943. <A NAME=4.1.115>Seek to know no more.</A><br>
  2944. </blockquote>
  2945. <A NAME=speech36><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2946. <blockquote>
  2947. <A NAME=4.1.116>I will be satisfied: deny me this,</A><br>
  2948. <A NAME=4.1.117>And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.</A><br>
  2949. <A NAME=4.1.118>Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?</A><br>
  2950. <p><i>Hautboys</i></p>
  2951. </blockquote>
  2952. <A NAME=speech37><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2953. <blockquote>
  2954. <A NAME=4.1.119>Show!</A><br>
  2955. </blockquote>
  2956. <A NAME=speech38><b>Second Witch</b></a>
  2957. <blockquote>
  2958. <A NAME=4.1.120>Show!</A><br>
  2959. </blockquote>
  2960. <A NAME=speech39><b>Third Witch</b></a>
  2961. <blockquote>
  2962. <A NAME=4.1.121>Show!</A><br>
  2963. </blockquote>
  2964. <A NAME=speech40><b>ALL</b></a>
  2965. <blockquote>
  2966. <A NAME=4.1.122>Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;</A><br>
  2967. <A NAME=4.1.123>Come like shadows, so depart!</A><br>
  2968. <p><i>A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following</i></p>
  2969. </blockquote>
  2970. <A NAME=speech41><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  2971. <blockquote>
  2972. <A NAME=4.1.124>Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!</A><br>
  2973. <A NAME=4.1.125>Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,</A><br>
  2974. <A NAME=4.1.126>Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.</A><br>
  2975. <A NAME=4.1.127>A third is like the former. Filthy hags!</A><br>
  2976. <A NAME=4.1.128>Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!</A><br>
  2977. <A NAME=4.1.129>What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?</A><br>
  2978. <A NAME=4.1.130>Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:</A><br>
  2979. <A NAME=4.1.131>And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass</A><br>
  2980. <A NAME=4.1.132>Which shows me many more; and some I see</A><br>
  2981. <A NAME=4.1.133>That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:</A><br>
  2982. <A NAME=4.1.134>Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;</A><br>
  2983. <A NAME=4.1.135>For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,</A><br>
  2984. <A NAME=4.1.136>And points at them for his.</A><br>
  2985. <p><i>Apparitions vanish</i></p>
  2986. <A NAME=4.1.137>What, is this so?</A><br>
  2987. </blockquote>
  2988. <A NAME=speech42><b>First Witch</b></a>
  2989. <blockquote>
  2990. <A NAME=4.1.138>Ay, sir, all this is so: but why</A><br>
  2991. <A NAME=4.1.139>Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?</A><br>
  2992. <A NAME=4.1.140>Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,</A><br>
  2993. <A NAME=4.1.141>And show the best of our delights:</A><br>
  2994. <A NAME=4.1.142>I'll charm the air to give a sound,</A><br>
  2995. <A NAME=4.1.143>While you perform your antic round:</A><br>
  2996. <A NAME=4.1.144>That this great king may kindly say,</A><br>
  2997. <A NAME=4.1.145>Our duties did his welcome pay.</A><br>
  2998. <p><i>Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE</i></p>
  2999. </blockquote>
  3000. <A NAME=speech43><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3001. <blockquote>
  3002. <A NAME=4.1.146>Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour</A><br>
  3003. <A NAME=4.1.147>Stand aye accursed in the calendar!</A><br>
  3004. <A NAME=4.1.148>Come in, without there!</A><br>
  3005. <p><i>Enter LENNOX</i></p>
  3006. </blockquote>
  3007. <A NAME=speech44><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3008. <blockquote>
  3009. <A NAME=4.1.149>What's your grace's will?</A><br>
  3010. </blockquote>
  3011. <A NAME=speech45><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3012. <blockquote>
  3013. <A NAME=4.1.150>Saw you the weird sisters?</A><br>
  3014. </blockquote>
  3015. <A NAME=speech46><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3016. <blockquote>
  3017. <A NAME=4.1.151>No, my lord.</A><br>
  3018. </blockquote>
  3019. <A NAME=speech47><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3020. <blockquote>
  3021. <A NAME=4.1.152>Came they not by you?</A><br>
  3022. </blockquote>
  3023. <A NAME=speech48><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3024. <blockquote>
  3025. <A NAME=4.1.153>No, indeed, my lord.</A><br>
  3026. </blockquote>
  3027. <A NAME=speech49><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3028. <blockquote>
  3029. <A NAME=4.1.154>Infected be the air whereon they ride;</A><br>
  3030. <A NAME=4.1.155>And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear</A><br>
  3031. <A NAME=4.1.156>The galloping of horse: who was't came by?</A><br>
  3032. </blockquote>
  3033. <A NAME=speech50><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3034. <blockquote>
  3035. <A NAME=4.1.157>'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word</A><br>
  3036. <A NAME=4.1.158>Macduff is fled to England.</A><br>
  3037. </blockquote>
  3038. <A NAME=speech51><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3039. <blockquote>
  3040. <A NAME=4.1.159>Fled to England!</A><br>
  3041. </blockquote>
  3042. <A NAME=speech52><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3043. <blockquote>
  3044. <A NAME=4.1.160>Ay, my good lord.</A><br>
  3045. </blockquote>
  3046. <A NAME=speech53><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  3047. <blockquote>
  3048. <A NAME=4.1.161>Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:</A><br>
  3049. <A NAME=4.1.162>The flighty purpose never is o'ertook</A><br>
  3050. <A NAME=4.1.163>Unless the deed go with it; from this moment</A><br>
  3051. <A NAME=4.1.164>The very firstlings of my heart shall be</A><br>
  3052. <A NAME=4.1.165>The firstlings of my hand. And even now,</A><br>
  3053. <A NAME=4.1.166>To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:</A><br>
  3054. <A NAME=4.1.167>The castle of Macduff I will surprise;</A><br>
  3055. <A NAME=4.1.168>Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword</A><br>
  3056. <A NAME=4.1.169>His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls</A><br>
  3057. <A NAME=4.1.170>That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;</A><br>
  3058. <A NAME=4.1.171>This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.</A><br>
  3059. <A NAME=4.1.172>But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?</A><br>
  3060. <A NAME=4.1.173>Come, bring me where they are.</A><br>
  3061. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  3062. </blockquote>
  3063. <h3>SCENE II. Fife. Macduff's castle.</h3>
  3064. <p><blockquote>
  3065. <i>Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS</i>
  3066. </blockquote>
  3067. <A NAME=speech1><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3068. <blockquote>
  3069. <A NAME=4.2.1>What had he done, to make him fly the land?</A><br>
  3070. </blockquote>
  3071. <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3072. <blockquote>
  3073. <A NAME=4.2.2>You must have patience, madam.</A><br>
  3074. </blockquote>
  3075. <A NAME=speech3><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3076. <blockquote>
  3077. <A NAME=4.2.3>He had none:</A><br>
  3078. <A NAME=4.2.4>His flight was madness: when our actions do not,</A><br>
  3079. <A NAME=4.2.5>Our fears do make us traitors.</A><br>
  3080. </blockquote>
  3081. <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3082. <blockquote>
  3083. <A NAME=4.2.6>You know not</A><br>
  3084. <A NAME=4.2.7>Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.</A><br>
  3085. </blockquote>
  3086. <A NAME=speech5><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3087. <blockquote>
  3088. <A NAME=4.2.8>Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,</A><br>
  3089. <A NAME=4.2.9>His mansion and his titles in a place</A><br>
  3090. <A NAME=4.2.10>From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;</A><br>
  3091. <A NAME=4.2.11>He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,</A><br>
  3092. <A NAME=4.2.12>The most diminutive of birds, will fight,</A><br>
  3093. <A NAME=4.2.13>Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.</A><br>
  3094. <A NAME=4.2.14>All is the fear and nothing is the love;</A><br>
  3095. <A NAME=4.2.15>As little is the wisdom, where the flight</A><br>
  3096. <A NAME=4.2.16>So runs against all reason.</A><br>
  3097. </blockquote>
  3098. <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3099. <blockquote>
  3100. <A NAME=4.2.17>My dearest coz,</A><br>
  3101. <A NAME=4.2.18>I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,</A><br>
  3102. <A NAME=4.2.19>He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows</A><br>
  3103. <A NAME=4.2.20>The fits o' the season. I dare not speak</A><br>
  3104. <A NAME=4.2.21>much further;</A><br>
  3105. <A NAME=4.2.22>But cruel are the times, when we are traitors</A><br>
  3106. <A NAME=4.2.23>And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour</A><br>
  3107. <A NAME=4.2.24>From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,</A><br>
  3108. <A NAME=4.2.25>But float upon a wild and violent sea</A><br>
  3109. <A NAME=4.2.26>Each way and move. I take my leave of you:</A><br>
  3110. <A NAME=4.2.27>Shall not be long but I'll be here again:</A><br>
  3111. <A NAME=4.2.28>Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward</A><br>
  3112. <A NAME=4.2.29>To what they were before. My pretty cousin,</A><br>
  3113. <A NAME=4.2.30>Blessing upon you!</A><br>
  3114. </blockquote>
  3115. <A NAME=speech7><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3116. <blockquote>
  3117. <A NAME=4.2.31>Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless.</A><br>
  3118. </blockquote>
  3119. <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3120. <blockquote>
  3121. <A NAME=4.2.32>I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,</A><br>
  3122. <A NAME=4.2.33>It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:</A><br>
  3123. <A NAME=4.2.34>I take my leave at once.</A><br>
  3124. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  3125. </blockquote>
  3126. <A NAME=speech9><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3127. <blockquote>
  3128. <A NAME=4.2.35>Sirrah, your father's dead;</A><br>
  3129. <A NAME=4.2.36>And what will you do now? How will you live?</A><br>
  3130. </blockquote>
  3131. <A NAME=speech10><b>Son</b></a>
  3132. <blockquote>
  3133. <A NAME=4.2.37>As birds do, mother.</A><br>
  3134. </blockquote>
  3135. <A NAME=speech11><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3136. <blockquote>
  3137. <A NAME=4.2.38>What, with worms and flies?</A><br>
  3138. </blockquote>
  3139. <A NAME=speech12><b>Son</b></a>
  3140. <blockquote>
  3141. <A NAME=4.2.39>With what I get, I mean; and so do they.</A><br>
  3142. </blockquote>
  3143. <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3144. <blockquote>
  3145. <A NAME=4.2.40>Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,</A><br>
  3146. <A NAME=4.2.41>The pitfall nor the gin.</A><br>
  3147. </blockquote>
  3148. <A NAME=speech14><b>Son</b></a>
  3149. <blockquote>
  3150. <A NAME=4.2.42>Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.</A><br>
  3151. <A NAME=4.2.43>My father is not dead, for all your saying.</A><br>
  3152. </blockquote>
  3153. <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3154. <blockquote>
  3155. <A NAME=4.2.44>Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father?</A><br>
  3156. </blockquote>
  3157. <A NAME=speech16><b>Son</b></a>
  3158. <blockquote>
  3159. <A NAME=4.2.45>Nay, how will you do for a husband?</A><br>
  3160. </blockquote>
  3161. <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3162. <blockquote>
  3163. <A NAME=4.2.46>Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.</A><br>
  3164. </blockquote>
  3165. <A NAME=speech18><b>Son</b></a>
  3166. <blockquote>
  3167. <A NAME=4.2.47>Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.</A><br>
  3168. </blockquote>
  3169. <A NAME=speech19><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3170. <blockquote>
  3171. <A NAME=4.2.48>Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,</A><br>
  3172. <A NAME=4.2.49>With wit enough for thee.</A><br>
  3173. </blockquote>
  3174. <A NAME=speech20><b>Son</b></a>
  3175. <blockquote>
  3176. <A NAME=4.2.50>Was my father a traitor, mother?</A><br>
  3177. </blockquote>
  3178. <A NAME=speech21><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3179. <blockquote>
  3180. <A NAME=4.2.51>Ay, that he was.</A><br>
  3181. </blockquote>
  3182. <A NAME=speech22><b>Son</b></a>
  3183. <blockquote>
  3184. <A NAME=4.2.52>What is a traitor?</A><br>
  3185. </blockquote>
  3186. <A NAME=speech23><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3187. <blockquote>
  3188. <A NAME=4.2.53>Why, one that swears and lies.</A><br>
  3189. </blockquote>
  3190. <A NAME=speech24><b>Son</b></a>
  3191. <blockquote>
  3192. <A NAME=4.2.54>And be all traitors that do so?</A><br>
  3193. </blockquote>
  3194. <A NAME=speech25><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3195. <blockquote>
  3196. <A NAME=4.2.55>Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.</A><br>
  3197. </blockquote>
  3198. <A NAME=speech26><b>Son</b></a>
  3199. <blockquote>
  3200. <A NAME=4.2.56>And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?</A><br>
  3201. </blockquote>
  3202. <A NAME=speech27><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3203. <blockquote>
  3204. <A NAME=4.2.57>Every one.</A><br>
  3205. </blockquote>
  3206. <A NAME=speech28><b>Son</b></a>
  3207. <blockquote>
  3208. <A NAME=4.2.58>Who must hang them?</A><br>
  3209. </blockquote>
  3210. <A NAME=speech29><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3211. <blockquote>
  3212. <A NAME=4.2.59>Why, the honest men.</A><br>
  3213. </blockquote>
  3214. <A NAME=speech30><b>Son</b></a>
  3215. <blockquote>
  3216. <A NAME=4.2.60>Then the liars and swearers are fools,</A><br>
  3217. <A NAME=4.2.61>for there are liars and swearers enow to beat</A><br>
  3218. <A NAME=4.2.62>the honest men and hang up them.</A><br>
  3219. </blockquote>
  3220. <A NAME=speech31><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3221. <blockquote>
  3222. <A NAME=4.2.63>Now, God help thee, poor monkey!</A><br>
  3223. <A NAME=4.2.64>But how wilt thou do for a father?</A><br>
  3224. </blockquote>
  3225. <A NAME=speech32><b>Son</b></a>
  3226. <blockquote>
  3227. <A NAME=4.2.65>If he were dead, you'ld weep for</A><br>
  3228. <A NAME=4.2.66>him: if you would not, it were a good sign</A><br>
  3229. <A NAME=4.2.67>that I should quickly have a new father.</A><br>
  3230. </blockquote>
  3231. <A NAME=speech33><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3232. <blockquote>
  3233. <A NAME=4.2.68>Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!</A><br>
  3234. <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
  3235. </blockquote>
  3236. <A NAME=speech34><b>Messenger</b></a>
  3237. <blockquote>
  3238. <A NAME=4.2.69>Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,</A><br>
  3239. <A NAME=4.2.70>Though in your state of honour I am perfect.</A><br>
  3240. <A NAME=4.2.71>I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:</A><br>
  3241. <A NAME=4.2.72>If you will take a homely man's advice,</A><br>
  3242. <A NAME=4.2.73>Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.</A><br>
  3243. <A NAME=4.2.74>To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;</A><br>
  3244. <A NAME=4.2.75>To do worse to you were fell cruelty,</A><br>
  3245. <A NAME=4.2.76>Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!</A><br>
  3246. <A NAME=4.2.77>I dare abide no longer.</A><br>
  3247. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  3248. </blockquote>
  3249. <A NAME=speech35><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3250. <blockquote>
  3251. <A NAME=4.2.78>Whither should I fly?</A><br>
  3252. <A NAME=4.2.79>I have done no harm. But I remember now</A><br>
  3253. <A NAME=4.2.80>I am in this earthly world; where to do harm</A><br>
  3254. <A NAME=4.2.81>Is often laudable, to do good sometime</A><br>
  3255. <A NAME=4.2.82>Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,</A><br>
  3256. <A NAME=4.2.83>Do I put up that womanly defence,</A><br>
  3257. <A NAME=4.2.84>To say I have done no harm?</A><br>
  3258. <p><i>Enter Murderers</i></p>
  3259. <A NAME=4.2.85>What are these faces?</A><br>
  3260. </blockquote>
  3261. <A NAME=speech36><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  3262. <blockquote>
  3263. <A NAME=4.2.86>Where is your husband?</A><br>
  3264. </blockquote>
  3265. <A NAME=speech37><b>LADY MACDUFF</b></a>
  3266. <blockquote>
  3267. <A NAME=4.2.87>I hope, in no place so unsanctified</A><br>
  3268. <A NAME=4.2.88>Where such as thou mayst find him.</A><br>
  3269. </blockquote>
  3270. <A NAME=speech38><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  3271. <blockquote>
  3272. <A NAME=4.2.89>He's a traitor.</A><br>
  3273. </blockquote>
  3274. <A NAME=speech39><b>Son</b></a>
  3275. <blockquote>
  3276. <A NAME=4.2.90>Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!</A><br>
  3277. </blockquote>
  3278. <A NAME=speech40><b>First Murderer</b></a>
  3279. <blockquote>
  3280. <A NAME=4.2.91>What, you egg!</A><br>
  3281. <p><i>Stabbing him</i></p>
  3282. <A NAME=4.2.92>Young fry of treachery!</A><br>
  3283. </blockquote>
  3284. <A NAME=speech41><b>Son</b></a>
  3285. <blockquote>
  3286. <A NAME=4.2.93>He has kill'd me, mother:</A><br>
  3287. <A NAME=4.2.94>Run away, I pray you!</A><br>
  3288. <p><i>Dies</i></p>
  3289. <p><i>Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt Murderers, following her</i></p>
  3290. </blockquote>
  3291. <h3>SCENE III. England. Before the King's palace.</h3>
  3292. <p><blockquote>
  3293. <i>Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF</i>
  3294. </blockquote>
  3295. <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3296. <blockquote>
  3297. <A NAME=4.3.1>Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there</A><br>
  3298. <A NAME=4.3.2>Weep our sad bosoms empty.</A><br>
  3299. </blockquote>
  3300. <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3301. <blockquote>
  3302. <A NAME=4.3.3>Let us rather</A><br>
  3303. <A NAME=4.3.4>Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men</A><br>
  3304. <A NAME=4.3.5>Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn</A><br>
  3305. <A NAME=4.3.6>New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows</A><br>
  3306. <A NAME=4.3.7>Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds</A><br>
  3307. <A NAME=4.3.8>As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out</A><br>
  3308. <A NAME=4.3.9>Like syllable of dolour.</A><br>
  3309. </blockquote>
  3310. <A NAME=speech3><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3311. <blockquote>
  3312. <A NAME=4.3.10>What I believe I'll wail,</A><br>
  3313. <A NAME=4.3.11>What know believe, and what I can redress,</A><br>
  3314. <A NAME=4.3.12>As I shall find the time to friend, I will.</A><br>
  3315. <A NAME=4.3.13>What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.</A><br>
  3316. <A NAME=4.3.14>This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,</A><br>
  3317. <A NAME=4.3.15>Was once thought honest: you have loved him well.</A><br>
  3318. <A NAME=4.3.16>He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young;</A><br>
  3319. <A NAME=4.3.17>but something</A><br>
  3320. <A NAME=4.3.18>You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom</A><br>
  3321. <A NAME=4.3.19>To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb</A><br>
  3322. <A NAME=4.3.20>To appease an angry god.</A><br>
  3323. </blockquote>
  3324. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3325. <blockquote>
  3326. <A NAME=4.3.21>I am not treacherous.</A><br>
  3327. </blockquote>
  3328. <A NAME=speech5><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3329. <blockquote>
  3330. <A NAME=4.3.22>But Macbeth is.</A><br>
  3331. <A NAME=4.3.23>A good and virtuous nature may recoil</A><br>
  3332. <A NAME=4.3.24>In an imperial charge. But I shall crave</A><br>
  3333. <A NAME=4.3.25>your pardon;</A><br>
  3334. <A NAME=4.3.26>That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:</A><br>
  3335. <A NAME=4.3.27>Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;</A><br>
  3336. <A NAME=4.3.28>Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,</A><br>
  3337. <A NAME=4.3.29>Yet grace must still look so.</A><br>
  3338. </blockquote>
  3339. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3340. <blockquote>
  3341. <A NAME=4.3.30>I have lost my hopes.</A><br>
  3342. </blockquote>
  3343. <A NAME=speech7><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3344. <blockquote>
  3345. <A NAME=4.3.31>Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.</A><br>
  3346. <A NAME=4.3.32>Why in that rawness left you wife and child,</A><br>
  3347. <A NAME=4.3.33>Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,</A><br>
  3348. <A NAME=4.3.34>Without leave-taking? I pray you,</A><br>
  3349. <A NAME=4.3.35>Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,</A><br>
  3350. <A NAME=4.3.36>But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,</A><br>
  3351. <A NAME=4.3.37>Whatever I shall think.</A><br>
  3352. </blockquote>
  3353. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3354. <blockquote>
  3355. <A NAME=4.3.38>Bleed, bleed, poor country!</A><br>
  3356. <A NAME=4.3.39>Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,</A><br>
  3357. <A NAME=4.3.40>For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou</A><br>
  3358. <A NAME=4.3.41>thy wrongs;</A><br>
  3359. <A NAME=4.3.42>The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:</A><br>
  3360. <A NAME=4.3.43>I would not be the villain that thou think'st</A><br>
  3361. <A NAME=4.3.44>For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,</A><br>
  3362. <A NAME=4.3.45>And the rich East to boot.</A><br>
  3363. </blockquote>
  3364. <A NAME=speech9><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3365. <blockquote>
  3366. <A NAME=4.3.46>Be not offended:</A><br>
  3367. <A NAME=4.3.47>I speak not as in absolute fear of you.</A><br>
  3368. <A NAME=4.3.48>I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;</A><br>
  3369. <A NAME=4.3.49>It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash</A><br>
  3370. <A NAME=4.3.50>Is added to her wounds: I think withal</A><br>
  3371. <A NAME=4.3.51>There would be hands uplifted in my right;</A><br>
  3372. <A NAME=4.3.52>And here from gracious England have I offer</A><br>
  3373. <A NAME=4.3.53>Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,</A><br>
  3374. <A NAME=4.3.54>When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,</A><br>
  3375. <A NAME=4.3.55>Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country</A><br>
  3376. <A NAME=4.3.56>Shall have more vices than it had before,</A><br>
  3377. <A NAME=4.3.57>More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,</A><br>
  3378. <A NAME=4.3.58>By him that shall succeed.</A><br>
  3379. </blockquote>
  3380. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3381. <blockquote>
  3382. <A NAME=4.3.59>What should he be?</A><br>
  3383. </blockquote>
  3384. <A NAME=speech11><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3385. <blockquote>
  3386. <A NAME=4.3.60>It is myself I mean: in whom I know</A><br>
  3387. <A NAME=4.3.61>All the particulars of vice so grafted</A><br>
  3388. <A NAME=4.3.62>That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth</A><br>
  3389. <A NAME=4.3.63>Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state</A><br>
  3390. <A NAME=4.3.64>Esteem him as a lamb, being compared</A><br>
  3391. <A NAME=4.3.65>With my confineless harms.</A><br>
  3392. </blockquote>
  3393. <A NAME=speech12><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3394. <blockquote>
  3395. <A NAME=4.3.66>Not in the legions</A><br>
  3396. <A NAME=4.3.67>Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd</A><br>
  3397. <A NAME=4.3.68>In evils to top Macbeth.</A><br>
  3398. </blockquote>
  3399. <A NAME=speech13><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3400. <blockquote>
  3401. <A NAME=4.3.69>I grant him bloody,</A><br>
  3402. <A NAME=4.3.70>Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,</A><br>
  3403. <A NAME=4.3.71>Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin</A><br>
  3404. <A NAME=4.3.72>That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,</A><br>
  3405. <A NAME=4.3.73>In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,</A><br>
  3406. <A NAME=4.3.74>Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up</A><br>
  3407. <A NAME=4.3.75>The cistern of my lust, and my desire</A><br>
  3408. <A NAME=4.3.76>All continent impediments would o'erbear</A><br>
  3409. <A NAME=4.3.77>That did oppose my will: better Macbeth</A><br>
  3410. <A NAME=4.3.78>Than such an one to reign.</A><br>
  3411. </blockquote>
  3412. <A NAME=speech14><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3413. <blockquote>
  3414. <A NAME=4.3.79>Boundless intemperance</A><br>
  3415. <A NAME=4.3.80>In nature is a tyranny; it hath been</A><br>
  3416. <A NAME=4.3.81>The untimely emptying of the happy throne</A><br>
  3417. <A NAME=4.3.82>And fall of many kings. But fear not yet</A><br>
  3418. <A NAME=4.3.83>To take upon you what is yours: you may</A><br>
  3419. <A NAME=4.3.84>Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,</A><br>
  3420. <A NAME=4.3.85>And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.</A><br>
  3421. <A NAME=4.3.86>We have willing dames enough: there cannot be</A><br>
  3422. <A NAME=4.3.87>That vulture in you, to devour so many</A><br>
  3423. <A NAME=4.3.88>As will to greatness dedicate themselves,</A><br>
  3424. <A NAME=4.3.89>Finding it so inclined.</A><br>
  3425. </blockquote>
  3426. <A NAME=speech15><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3427. <blockquote>
  3428. <A NAME=4.3.90>With this there grows</A><br>
  3429. <A NAME=4.3.91>In my most ill-composed affection such</A><br>
  3430. <A NAME=4.3.92>A stanchless avarice that, were I king,</A><br>
  3431. <A NAME=4.3.93>I should cut off the nobles for their lands,</A><br>
  3432. <A NAME=4.3.94>Desire his jewels and this other's house:</A><br>
  3433. <A NAME=4.3.95>And my more-having would be as a sauce</A><br>
  3434. <A NAME=4.3.96>To make me hunger more; that I should forge</A><br>
  3435. <A NAME=4.3.97>Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,</A><br>
  3436. <A NAME=4.3.98>Destroying them for wealth.</A><br>
  3437. </blockquote>
  3438. <A NAME=speech16><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3439. <blockquote>
  3440. <A NAME=4.3.99>This avarice</A><br>
  3441. <A NAME=4.3.100>Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root</A><br>
  3442. <A NAME=4.3.101>Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been</A><br>
  3443. <A NAME=4.3.102>The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;</A><br>
  3444. <A NAME=4.3.103>Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.</A><br>
  3445. <A NAME=4.3.104>Of your mere own: all these are portable,</A><br>
  3446. <A NAME=4.3.105>With other graces weigh'd.</A><br>
  3447. </blockquote>
  3448. <A NAME=speech17><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3449. <blockquote>
  3450. <A NAME=4.3.106>But I have none: the king-becoming graces,</A><br>
  3451. <A NAME=4.3.107>As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,</A><br>
  3452. <A NAME=4.3.108>Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,</A><br>
  3453. <A NAME=4.3.109>Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,</A><br>
  3454. <A NAME=4.3.110>I have no relish of them, but abound</A><br>
  3455. <A NAME=4.3.111>In the division of each several crime,</A><br>
  3456. <A NAME=4.3.112>Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should</A><br>
  3457. <A NAME=4.3.113>Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,</A><br>
  3458. <A NAME=4.3.114>Uproar the universal peace, confound</A><br>
  3459. <A NAME=4.3.115>All unity on earth.</A><br>
  3460. </blockquote>
  3461. <A NAME=speech18><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3462. <blockquote>
  3463. <A NAME=4.3.116>O Scotland, Scotland!</A><br>
  3464. </blockquote>
  3465. <A NAME=speech19><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3466. <blockquote>
  3467. <A NAME=4.3.117>If such a one be fit to govern, speak:</A><br>
  3468. <A NAME=4.3.118>I am as I have spoken.</A><br>
  3469. </blockquote>
  3470. <A NAME=speech20><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3471. <blockquote>
  3472. <A NAME=4.3.119>Fit to govern!</A><br>
  3473. <A NAME=4.3.120>No, not to live. O nation miserable,</A><br>
  3474. <A NAME=4.3.121>With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,</A><br>
  3475. <A NAME=4.3.122>When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,</A><br>
  3476. <A NAME=4.3.123>Since that the truest issue of thy throne</A><br>
  3477. <A NAME=4.3.124>By his own interdiction stands accursed,</A><br>
  3478. <A NAME=4.3.125>And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father</A><br>
  3479. <A NAME=4.3.126>Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,</A><br>
  3480. <A NAME=4.3.127>Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,</A><br>
  3481. <A NAME=4.3.128>Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!</A><br>
  3482. <A NAME=4.3.129>These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself</A><br>
  3483. <A NAME=4.3.130>Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,</A><br>
  3484. <A NAME=4.3.131>Thy hope ends here!</A><br>
  3485. </blockquote>
  3486. <A NAME=speech21><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3487. <blockquote>
  3488. <A NAME=4.3.132>Macduff, this noble passion,</A><br>
  3489. <A NAME=4.3.133>Child of integrity, hath from my soul</A><br>
  3490. <A NAME=4.3.134>Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts</A><br>
  3491. <A NAME=4.3.135>To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth</A><br>
  3492. <A NAME=4.3.136>By many of these trains hath sought to win me</A><br>
  3493. <A NAME=4.3.137>Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me</A><br>
  3494. <A NAME=4.3.138>From over-credulous haste: but God above</A><br>
  3495. <A NAME=4.3.139>Deal between thee and me! for even now</A><br>
  3496. <A NAME=4.3.140>I put myself to thy direction, and</A><br>
  3497. <A NAME=4.3.141>Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure</A><br>
  3498. <A NAME=4.3.142>The taints and blames I laid upon myself,</A><br>
  3499. <A NAME=4.3.143>For strangers to my nature. I am yet</A><br>
  3500. <A NAME=4.3.144>Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,</A><br>
  3501. <A NAME=4.3.145>Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,</A><br>
  3502. <A NAME=4.3.146>At no time broke my faith, would not betray</A><br>
  3503. <A NAME=4.3.147>The devil to his fellow and delight</A><br>
  3504. <A NAME=4.3.148>No less in truth than life: my first false speaking</A><br>
  3505. <A NAME=4.3.149>Was this upon myself: what I am truly,</A><br>
  3506. <A NAME=4.3.150>Is thine and my poor country's to command:</A><br>
  3507. <A NAME=4.3.151>Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,</A><br>
  3508. <A NAME=4.3.152>Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,</A><br>
  3509. <A NAME=4.3.153>Already at a point, was setting forth.</A><br>
  3510. <A NAME=4.3.154>Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness</A><br>
  3511. <A NAME=4.3.155>Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?</A><br>
  3512. </blockquote>
  3513. <A NAME=speech22><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3514. <blockquote>
  3515. <A NAME=4.3.156>Such welcome and unwelcome things at once</A><br>
  3516. <A NAME=4.3.157>'Tis hard to reconcile.</A><br>
  3517. <p><i>Enter a Doctor</i></p>
  3518. </blockquote>
  3519. <A NAME=speech23><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3520. <blockquote>
  3521. <A NAME=4.3.158>Well; more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?</A><br>
  3522. </blockquote>
  3523. <A NAME=speech24><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3524. <blockquote>
  3525. <A NAME=4.3.159>Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls</A><br>
  3526. <A NAME=4.3.160>That stay his cure: their malady convinces</A><br>
  3527. <A NAME=4.3.161>The great assay of art; but at his touch--</A><br>
  3528. <A NAME=4.3.162>Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--</A><br>
  3529. <A NAME=4.3.163>They presently amend.</A><br>
  3530. </blockquote>
  3531. <A NAME=speech25><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3532. <blockquote>
  3533. <A NAME=4.3.164>I thank you, doctor.</A><br>
  3534. <p><i>Exit Doctor</i></p>
  3535. </blockquote>
  3536. <A NAME=speech26><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3537. <blockquote>
  3538. <A NAME=4.3.165>What's the disease he means?</A><br>
  3539. </blockquote>
  3540. <A NAME=speech27><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3541. <blockquote>
  3542. <A NAME=4.3.166>'Tis call'd the evil:</A><br>
  3543. <A NAME=4.3.167>A most miraculous work in this good king;</A><br>
  3544. <A NAME=4.3.168>Which often, since my here-remain in England,</A><br>
  3545. <A NAME=4.3.169>I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,</A><br>
  3546. <A NAME=4.3.170>Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,</A><br>
  3547. <A NAME=4.3.171>All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,</A><br>
  3548. <A NAME=4.3.172>The mere despair of surgery, he cures,</A><br>
  3549. <A NAME=4.3.173>Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,</A><br>
  3550. <A NAME=4.3.174>Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,</A><br>
  3551. <A NAME=4.3.175>To the succeeding royalty he leaves</A><br>
  3552. <A NAME=4.3.176>The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,</A><br>
  3553. <A NAME=4.3.177>He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,</A><br>
  3554. <A NAME=4.3.178>And sundry blessings hang about his throne,</A><br>
  3555. <A NAME=4.3.179>That speak him full of grace.</A><br>
  3556. <p><i>Enter ROSS</i></p>
  3557. </blockquote>
  3558. <A NAME=speech28><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3559. <blockquote>
  3560. <A NAME=4.3.180>See, who comes here?</A><br>
  3561. </blockquote>
  3562. <A NAME=speech29><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3563. <blockquote>
  3564. <A NAME=4.3.181>My countryman; but yet I know him not.</A><br>
  3565. </blockquote>
  3566. <A NAME=speech30><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3567. <blockquote>
  3568. <A NAME=4.3.182>My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.</A><br>
  3569. </blockquote>
  3570. <A NAME=speech31><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3571. <blockquote>
  3572. <A NAME=4.3.183>I know him now. Good God, betimes remove</A><br>
  3573. <A NAME=4.3.184>The means that makes us strangers!</A><br>
  3574. </blockquote>
  3575. <A NAME=speech32><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3576. <blockquote>
  3577. <A NAME=4.3.185>Sir, amen.</A><br>
  3578. </blockquote>
  3579. <A NAME=speech33><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3580. <blockquote>
  3581. <A NAME=4.3.186>Stands Scotland where it did?</A><br>
  3582. </blockquote>
  3583. <A NAME=speech34><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3584. <blockquote>
  3585. <A NAME=4.3.187>Alas, poor country!</A><br>
  3586. <A NAME=4.3.188>Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot</A><br>
  3587. <A NAME=4.3.189>Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,</A><br>
  3588. <A NAME=4.3.190>But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;</A><br>
  3589. <A NAME=4.3.191>Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air</A><br>
  3590. <A NAME=4.3.192>Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems</A><br>
  3591. <A NAME=4.3.193>A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell</A><br>
  3592. <A NAME=4.3.194>Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives</A><br>
  3593. <A NAME=4.3.195>Expire before the flowers in their caps,</A><br>
  3594. <A NAME=4.3.196>Dying or ere they sicken.</A><br>
  3595. </blockquote>
  3596. <A NAME=speech35><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3597. <blockquote>
  3598. <A NAME=4.3.197>O, relation</A><br>
  3599. <A NAME=4.3.198>Too nice, and yet too true!</A><br>
  3600. </blockquote>
  3601. <A NAME=speech36><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3602. <blockquote>
  3603. <A NAME=4.3.199>What's the newest grief?</A><br>
  3604. </blockquote>
  3605. <A NAME=speech37><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3606. <blockquote>
  3607. <A NAME=4.3.200>That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:</A><br>
  3608. <A NAME=4.3.201>Each minute teems a new one.</A><br>
  3609. </blockquote>
  3610. <A NAME=speech38><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3611. <blockquote>
  3612. <A NAME=4.3.202>How does my wife?</A><br>
  3613. </blockquote>
  3614. <A NAME=speech39><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3615. <blockquote>
  3616. <A NAME=4.3.203>Why, well.</A><br>
  3617. </blockquote>
  3618. <A NAME=speech40><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3619. <blockquote>
  3620. <A NAME=4.3.204> And all my children?</A><br>
  3621. </blockquote>
  3622. <A NAME=speech41><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3623. <blockquote>
  3624. <A NAME=4.3.205>Well too.</A><br>
  3625. </blockquote>
  3626. <A NAME=speech42><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3627. <blockquote>
  3628. <A NAME=4.3.206>The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?</A><br>
  3629. </blockquote>
  3630. <A NAME=speech43><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3631. <blockquote>
  3632. <A NAME=4.3.207>No; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.</A><br>
  3633. </blockquote>
  3634. <A NAME=speech44><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3635. <blockquote>
  3636. <A NAME=4.3.208>But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?</A><br>
  3637. </blockquote>
  3638. <A NAME=speech45><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3639. <blockquote>
  3640. <A NAME=4.3.209>When I came hither to transport the tidings,</A><br>
  3641. <A NAME=4.3.210>Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour</A><br>
  3642. <A NAME=4.3.211>Of many worthy fellows that were out;</A><br>
  3643. <A NAME=4.3.212>Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,</A><br>
  3644. <A NAME=4.3.213>For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:</A><br>
  3645. <A NAME=4.3.214>Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland</A><br>
  3646. <A NAME=4.3.215>Would create soldiers, make our women fight,</A><br>
  3647. <A NAME=4.3.216>To doff their dire distresses.</A><br>
  3648. </blockquote>
  3649. <A NAME=speech46><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3650. <blockquote>
  3651. <A NAME=4.3.217>Be't their comfort</A><br>
  3652. <A NAME=4.3.218>We are coming thither: gracious England hath</A><br>
  3653. <A NAME=4.3.219>Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;</A><br>
  3654. <A NAME=4.3.220>An older and a better soldier none</A><br>
  3655. <A NAME=4.3.221>That Christendom gives out.</A><br>
  3656. </blockquote>
  3657. <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3658. <blockquote>
  3659. <A NAME=4.3.222>Would I could answer</A><br>
  3660. <A NAME=4.3.223>This comfort with the like! But I have words</A><br>
  3661. <A NAME=4.3.224>That would be howl'd out in the desert air,</A><br>
  3662. <A NAME=4.3.225>Where hearing should not latch them.</A><br>
  3663. </blockquote>
  3664. <A NAME=speech48><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3665. <blockquote>
  3666. <A NAME=4.3.226>What concern they?</A><br>
  3667. <A NAME=4.3.227>The general cause? or is it a fee-grief</A><br>
  3668. <A NAME=4.3.228>Due to some single breast?</A><br>
  3669. </blockquote>
  3670. <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3671. <blockquote>
  3672. <A NAME=4.3.229>No mind that's honest</A><br>
  3673. <A NAME=4.3.230>But in it shares some woe; though the main part</A><br>
  3674. <A NAME=4.3.231>Pertains to you alone.</A><br>
  3675. </blockquote>
  3676. <A NAME=speech50><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3677. <blockquote>
  3678. <A NAME=4.3.232>If it be mine,</A><br>
  3679. <A NAME=4.3.233>Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.</A><br>
  3680. </blockquote>
  3681. <A NAME=speech51><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3682. <blockquote>
  3683. <A NAME=4.3.234>Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,</A><br>
  3684. <A NAME=4.3.235>Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound</A><br>
  3685. <A NAME=4.3.236>That ever yet they heard.</A><br>
  3686. </blockquote>
  3687. <A NAME=speech52><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3688. <blockquote>
  3689. <A NAME=4.3.237>Hum! I guess at it.</A><br>
  3690. </blockquote>
  3691. <A NAME=speech53><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3692. <blockquote>
  3693. <A NAME=4.3.238>Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes</A><br>
  3694. <A NAME=4.3.239>Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,</A><br>
  3695. <A NAME=4.3.240>Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,</A><br>
  3696. <A NAME=4.3.241>To add the death of you.</A><br>
  3697. </blockquote>
  3698. <A NAME=speech54><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3699. <blockquote>
  3700. <A NAME=4.3.242>Merciful heaven!</A><br>
  3701. <A NAME=4.3.243>What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows;</A><br>
  3702. <A NAME=4.3.244>Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak</A><br>
  3703. <A NAME=4.3.245>Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.</A><br>
  3704. </blockquote>
  3705. <A NAME=speech55><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3706. <blockquote>
  3707. <A NAME=4.3.246>My children too?</A><br>
  3708. </blockquote>
  3709. <A NAME=speech56><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3710. <blockquote>
  3711. <A NAME=4.3.247> Wife, children, servants, all</A><br>
  3712. <A NAME=4.3.248>That could be found.</A><br>
  3713. </blockquote>
  3714. <A NAME=speech57><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3715. <blockquote>
  3716. <A NAME=4.3.249>And I must be from thence!</A><br>
  3717. <A NAME=4.3.250>My wife kill'd too?</A><br>
  3718. </blockquote>
  3719. <A NAME=speech58><b>ROSS</b></a>
  3720. <blockquote>
  3721. <A NAME=4.3.251>I have said.</A><br>
  3722. </blockquote>
  3723. <A NAME=speech59><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3724. <blockquote>
  3725. <A NAME=4.3.252>Be comforted:</A><br>
  3726. <A NAME=4.3.253>Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,</A><br>
  3727. <A NAME=4.3.254>To cure this deadly grief.</A><br>
  3728. </blockquote>
  3729. <A NAME=speech60><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3730. <blockquote>
  3731. <A NAME=4.3.255>He has no children. All my pretty ones?</A><br>
  3732. <A NAME=4.3.256>Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?</A><br>
  3733. <A NAME=4.3.257>What, all my pretty chickens and their dam</A><br>
  3734. <A NAME=4.3.258>At one fell swoop?</A><br>
  3735. </blockquote>
  3736. <A NAME=speech61><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3737. <blockquote>
  3738. <A NAME=4.3.259>Dispute it like a man.</A><br>
  3739. </blockquote>
  3740. <A NAME=speech62><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3741. <blockquote>
  3742. <A NAME=4.3.260>I shall do so;</A><br>
  3743. <A NAME=4.3.261>But I must also feel it as a man:</A><br>
  3744. <A NAME=4.3.262>I cannot but remember such things were,</A><br>
  3745. <A NAME=4.3.263>That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,</A><br>
  3746. <A NAME=4.3.264>And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,</A><br>
  3747. <A NAME=4.3.265>They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,</A><br>
  3748. <A NAME=4.3.266>Not for their own demerits, but for mine,</A><br>
  3749. <A NAME=4.3.267>Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!</A><br>
  3750. </blockquote>
  3751. <A NAME=speech63><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3752. <blockquote>
  3753. <A NAME=4.3.268>Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief</A><br>
  3754. <A NAME=4.3.269>Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.</A><br>
  3755. </blockquote>
  3756. <A NAME=speech64><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  3757. <blockquote>
  3758. <A NAME=4.3.270>O, I could play the woman with mine eyes</A><br>
  3759. <A NAME=4.3.271>And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,</A><br>
  3760. <A NAME=4.3.272>Cut short all intermission; front to front</A><br>
  3761. <A NAME=4.3.273>Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;</A><br>
  3762. <A NAME=4.3.274>Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,</A><br>
  3763. <A NAME=4.3.275>Heaven forgive him too!</A><br>
  3764. </blockquote>
  3765. <A NAME=speech65><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  3766. <blockquote>
  3767. <A NAME=4.3.276>This tune goes manly.</A><br>
  3768. <A NAME=4.3.277>Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;</A><br>
  3769. <A NAME=4.3.278>Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth</A><br>
  3770. <A NAME=4.3.279>Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above</A><br>
  3771. <A NAME=4.3.280>Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:</A><br>
  3772. <A NAME=4.3.281>The night is long that never finds the day.</A><br>
  3773. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  3774. </blockquote><p>
  3775. <H3>ACT V</h3>
  3776. <h3>SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.</h3>
  3777. <p><blockquote>
  3778. <i>Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman</i>
  3779. </blockquote>
  3780. <A NAME=speech1><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3781. <blockquote>
  3782. <A NAME=5.1.1>I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive</A><br>
  3783. <A NAME=5.1.2>no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?</A><br>
  3784. </blockquote>
  3785. <A NAME=speech2><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3786. <blockquote>
  3787. <A NAME=5.1.3>Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen</A><br>
  3788. <A NAME=5.1.4>her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon</A><br>
  3789. <A NAME=5.1.5>her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,</A><br>
  3790. <A NAME=5.1.6>write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again</A><br>
  3791. <A NAME=5.1.7>return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.</A><br>
  3792. </blockquote>
  3793. <A NAME=speech3><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3794. <blockquote>
  3795. <A NAME=5.1.8>A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once</A><br>
  3796. <A NAME=5.1.9>the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of</A><br>
  3797. <A NAME=5.1.10>watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her</A><br>
  3798. <A NAME=5.1.11>walking and other actual performances, what, at any</A><br>
  3799. <A NAME=5.1.12>time, have you heard her say?</A><br>
  3800. </blockquote>
  3801. <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3802. <blockquote>
  3803. <A NAME=5.1.13>That, sir, which I will not report after her.</A><br>
  3804. </blockquote>
  3805. <A NAME=speech5><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3806. <blockquote>
  3807. <A NAME=5.1.14>You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should.</A><br>
  3808. </blockquote>
  3809. <A NAME=speech6><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3810. <blockquote>
  3811. <A NAME=5.1.15>Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to</A><br>
  3812. <A NAME=5.1.16>confirm my speech.</A><br>
  3813. <p><i>Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper</i></p>
  3814. <A NAME=5.1.17>Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;</A><br>
  3815. <A NAME=5.1.18>and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.</A><br>
  3816. </blockquote>
  3817. <A NAME=speech7><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3818. <blockquote>
  3819. <A NAME=5.1.19>How came she by that light?</A><br>
  3820. </blockquote>
  3821. <A NAME=speech8><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3822. <blockquote>
  3823. <A NAME=5.1.20>Why, it stood by her: she has light by her</A><br>
  3824. <A NAME=5.1.21>continually; 'tis her command.</A><br>
  3825. </blockquote>
  3826. <A NAME=speech9><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3827. <blockquote>
  3828. <A NAME=5.1.22>You see, her eyes are open.</A><br>
  3829. </blockquote>
  3830. <A NAME=speech10><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3831. <blockquote>
  3832. <A NAME=5.1.23>Ay, but their sense is shut.</A><br>
  3833. </blockquote>
  3834. <A NAME=speech11><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3835. <blockquote>
  3836. <A NAME=5.1.24>What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.</A><br>
  3837. </blockquote>
  3838. <A NAME=speech12><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3839. <blockquote>
  3840. <A NAME=5.1.25>It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus</A><br>
  3841. <A NAME=5.1.26>washing her hands: I have known her continue in</A><br>
  3842. <A NAME=5.1.27>this a quarter of an hour.</A><br>
  3843. </blockquote>
  3844. <A NAME=speech13><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3845. <blockquote>
  3846. <A NAME=5.1.28>Yet here's a spot.</A><br>
  3847. </blockquote>
  3848. <A NAME=speech14><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3849. <blockquote>
  3850. <A NAME=5.1.29>Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from</A><br>
  3851. <A NAME=5.1.30>her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.</A><br>
  3852. </blockquote>
  3853. <A NAME=speech15><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3854. <blockquote>
  3855. <A NAME=5.1.31>Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,</A><br>
  3856. <A NAME=5.1.32>then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my</A><br>
  3857. <A NAME=5.1.33>lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we</A><br>
  3858. <A NAME=5.1.34>fear who knows it, when none can call our power to</A><br>
  3859. <A NAME=5.1.35>account?--Yet who would have thought the old man</A><br>
  3860. <A NAME=5.1.36>to have had so much blood in him.</A><br>
  3861. </blockquote>
  3862. <A NAME=speech16><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3863. <blockquote>
  3864. <A NAME=5.1.37>Do you mark that?</A><br>
  3865. </blockquote>
  3866. <A NAME=speech17><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3867. <blockquote>
  3868. <A NAME=5.1.38>The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--</A><br>
  3869. <A NAME=5.1.39>What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'</A><br>
  3870. <A NAME=5.1.40>that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with</A><br>
  3871. <A NAME=5.1.41>this starting.</A><br>
  3872. </blockquote>
  3873. <A NAME=speech18><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3874. <blockquote>
  3875. <A NAME=5.1.42>Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.</A><br>
  3876. </blockquote>
  3877. <A NAME=speech19><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3878. <blockquote>
  3879. <A NAME=5.1.43>She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of</A><br>
  3880. <A NAME=5.1.44>that: heaven knows what she has known.</A><br>
  3881. </blockquote>
  3882. <A NAME=speech20><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3883. <blockquote>
  3884. <A NAME=5.1.45>Here's the smell of the blood still: all the</A><br>
  3885. <A NAME=5.1.46>perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little</A><br>
  3886. <A NAME=5.1.47>hand. Oh, oh, oh!</A><br>
  3887. </blockquote>
  3888. <A NAME=speech21><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3889. <blockquote>
  3890. <A NAME=5.1.48>What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.</A><br>
  3891. </blockquote>
  3892. <A NAME=speech22><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3893. <blockquote>
  3894. <A NAME=5.1.49>I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the</A><br>
  3895. <A NAME=5.1.50>dignity of the whole body.</A><br>
  3896. </blockquote>
  3897. <A NAME=speech23><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3898. <blockquote>
  3899. <A NAME=5.1.51>Well, well, well,--</A><br>
  3900. </blockquote>
  3901. <A NAME=speech24><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3902. <blockquote>
  3903. <A NAME=5.1.52>Pray God it be, sir.</A><br>
  3904. </blockquote>
  3905. <A NAME=speech25><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3906. <blockquote>
  3907. <A NAME=5.1.53>This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known</A><br>
  3908. <A NAME=5.1.54>those which have walked in their sleep who have died</A><br>
  3909. <A NAME=5.1.55>holily in their beds.</A><br>
  3910. </blockquote>
  3911. <A NAME=speech26><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3912. <blockquote>
  3913. <A NAME=5.1.56>Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so</A><br>
  3914. <A NAME=5.1.57>pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he</A><br>
  3915. <A NAME=5.1.58>cannot come out on's grave.</A><br>
  3916. </blockquote>
  3917. <A NAME=speech27><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3918. <blockquote>
  3919. <A NAME=5.1.59>Even so?</A><br>
  3920. </blockquote>
  3921. <A NAME=speech28><b>LADY MACBETH</b></a>
  3922. <blockquote>
  3923. <A NAME=5.1.60>To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:</A><br>
  3924. <A NAME=5.1.61>come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's</A><br>
  3925. <A NAME=5.1.62>done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!</A><br>
  3926. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  3927. </blockquote>
  3928. <A NAME=speech29><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3929. <blockquote>
  3930. <A NAME=5.1.63>Will she go now to bed?</A><br>
  3931. </blockquote>
  3932. <A NAME=speech30><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3933. <blockquote>
  3934. <A NAME=5.1.64>Directly.</A><br>
  3935. </blockquote>
  3936. <A NAME=speech31><b>Doctor</b></a>
  3937. <blockquote>
  3938. <A NAME=5.1.65>Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds</A><br>
  3939. <A NAME=5.1.66>Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds</A><br>
  3940. <A NAME=5.1.67>To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:</A><br>
  3941. <A NAME=5.1.68>More needs she the divine than the physician.</A><br>
  3942. <A NAME=5.1.69>God, God forgive us all! Look after her;</A><br>
  3943. <A NAME=5.1.70>Remove from her the means of all annoyance,</A><br>
  3944. <A NAME=5.1.71>And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:</A><br>
  3945. <A NAME=5.1.72>My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.</A><br>
  3946. <A NAME=5.1.73>I think, but dare not speak.</A><br>
  3947. </blockquote>
  3948. <A NAME=speech32><b>Gentlewoman</b></a>
  3949. <blockquote>
  3950. <A NAME=5.1.74>Good night, good doctor.</A><br>
  3951. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  3952. </blockquote>
  3953. <h3>SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane.</h3>
  3954. <p><blockquote>
  3955. <i>Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers</i>
  3956. </blockquote>
  3957. <A NAME=speech1><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
  3958. <blockquote>
  3959. <A NAME=5.2.1>The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,</A><br>
  3960. <A NAME=5.2.2>His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:</A><br>
  3961. <A NAME=5.2.3>Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes</A><br>
  3962. <A NAME=5.2.4>Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm</A><br>
  3963. <A NAME=5.2.5>Excite the mortified man.</A><br>
  3964. </blockquote>
  3965. <A NAME=speech2><b>ANGUS</b></a>
  3966. <blockquote>
  3967. <A NAME=5.2.6>Near Birnam wood</A><br>
  3968. <A NAME=5.2.7>Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming.</A><br>
  3969. </blockquote>
  3970. <A NAME=speech3><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
  3971. <blockquote>
  3972. <A NAME=5.2.8>Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?</A><br>
  3973. </blockquote>
  3974. <A NAME=speech4><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  3975. <blockquote>
  3976. <A NAME=5.2.9>For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file</A><br>
  3977. <A NAME=5.2.10>Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,</A><br>
  3978. <A NAME=5.2.11>And many unrough youths that even now</A><br>
  3979. <A NAME=5.2.12>Protest their first of manhood.</A><br>
  3980. </blockquote>
  3981. <A NAME=speech5><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
  3982. <blockquote>
  3983. <A NAME=5.2.13>What does the tyrant?</A><br>
  3984. </blockquote>
  3985. <A NAME=speech6><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
  3986. <blockquote>
  3987. <A NAME=5.2.14>Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:</A><br>
  3988. <A NAME=5.2.15>Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him</A><br>
  3989. <A NAME=5.2.16>Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,</A><br>
  3990. <A NAME=5.2.17>He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause</A><br>
  3991. <A NAME=5.2.18>Within the belt of rule.</A><br>
  3992. </blockquote>
  3993. <A NAME=speech7><b>ANGUS</b></a>
  3994. <blockquote>
  3995. <A NAME=5.2.19>Now does he feel</A><br>
  3996. <A NAME=5.2.20>His secret murders sticking on his hands;</A><br>
  3997. <A NAME=5.2.21>Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;</A><br>
  3998. <A NAME=5.2.22>Those he commands move only in command,</A><br>
  3999. <A NAME=5.2.23>Nothing in love: now does he feel his title</A><br>
  4000. <A NAME=5.2.24>Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe</A><br>
  4001. <A NAME=5.2.25>Upon a dwarfish thief.</A><br>
  4002. </blockquote>
  4003. <A NAME=speech8><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
  4004. <blockquote>
  4005. <A NAME=5.2.26>Who then shall blame</A><br>
  4006. <A NAME=5.2.27>His pester'd senses to recoil and start,</A><br>
  4007. <A NAME=5.2.28>When all that is within him does condemn</A><br>
  4008. <A NAME=5.2.29>Itself for being there?</A><br>
  4009. </blockquote>
  4010. <A NAME=speech9><b>CAITHNESS</b></a>
  4011. <blockquote>
  4012. <A NAME=5.2.30>Well, march we on,</A><br>
  4013. <A NAME=5.2.31>To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:</A><br>
  4014. <A NAME=5.2.32>Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,</A><br>
  4015. <A NAME=5.2.33>And with him pour we in our country's purge</A><br>
  4016. <A NAME=5.2.34>Each drop of us.</A><br>
  4017. </blockquote>
  4018. <A NAME=speech10><b>LENNOX</b></a>
  4019. <blockquote>
  4020. <A NAME=5.2.35> Or so much as it needs,</A><br>
  4021. <A NAME=5.2.36>To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.</A><br>
  4022. <A NAME=5.2.37>Make we our march towards Birnam.</A><br>
  4023. <p><i>Exeunt, marching</i></p>
  4024. </blockquote>
  4025. <h3>SCENE III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle.</h3>
  4026. <p><blockquote>
  4027. <i>Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants</i>
  4028. </blockquote>
  4029. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4030. <blockquote>
  4031. <A NAME=5.3.1>Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:</A><br>
  4032. <A NAME=5.3.2>Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,</A><br>
  4033. <A NAME=5.3.3>I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?</A><br>
  4034. <A NAME=5.3.4>Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know</A><br>
  4035. <A NAME=5.3.5>All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:</A><br>
  4036. <A NAME=5.3.6>'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman</A><br>
  4037. <A NAME=5.3.7>Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,</A><br>
  4038. <A NAME=5.3.8>false thanes,</A><br>
  4039. <A NAME=5.3.9>And mingle with the English epicures:</A><br>
  4040. <A NAME=5.3.10>The mind I sway by and the heart I bear</A><br>
  4041. <A NAME=5.3.11>Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.</A><br>
  4042. <p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
  4043. <A NAME=5.3.12>The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!</A><br>
  4044. <A NAME=5.3.13>Where got'st thou that goose look?</A><br>
  4045. </blockquote>
  4046. <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
  4047. <blockquote>
  4048. <A NAME=5.3.14>There is ten thousand--</A><br>
  4049. </blockquote>
  4050. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4051. <blockquote>
  4052. <A NAME=5.3.15>Geese, villain!</A><br>
  4053. </blockquote>
  4054. <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
  4055. <blockquote>
  4056. <A NAME=5.3.16>Soldiers, sir.</A><br>
  4057. </blockquote>
  4058. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4059. <blockquote>
  4060. <A NAME=5.3.17>Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,</A><br>
  4061. <A NAME=5.3.18>Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?</A><br>
  4062. <A NAME=5.3.19>Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine</A><br>
  4063. <A NAME=5.3.20>Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?</A><br>
  4064. </blockquote>
  4065. <A NAME=speech6><b>Servant</b></a>
  4066. <blockquote>
  4067. <A NAME=5.3.21>The English force, so please you.</A><br>
  4068. </blockquote>
  4069. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4070. <blockquote>
  4071. <A NAME=5.3.22>Take thy face hence.</A><br>
  4072. <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
  4073. <A NAME=5.3.23>Seyton!--I am sick at heart,</A><br>
  4074. <A NAME=5.3.24>When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push</A><br>
  4075. <A NAME=5.3.25>Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.</A><br>
  4076. <A NAME=5.3.26>I have lived long enough: my way of life</A><br>
  4077. <A NAME=5.3.27>Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;</A><br>
  4078. <A NAME=5.3.28>And that which should accompany old age,</A><br>
  4079. <A NAME=5.3.29>As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,</A><br>
  4080. <A NAME=5.3.30>I must not look to have; but, in their stead,</A><br>
  4081. <A NAME=5.3.31>Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,</A><br>
  4082. <A NAME=5.3.32>Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!</A><br>
  4083. <p><i>Enter SEYTON</i></p>
  4084. </blockquote>
  4085. <A NAME=speech8><b>SEYTON</b></a>
  4086. <blockquote>
  4087. <A NAME=5.3.33>What is your gracious pleasure?</A><br>
  4088. </blockquote>
  4089. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4090. <blockquote>
  4091. <A NAME=5.3.34>What news more?</A><br>
  4092. </blockquote>
  4093. <A NAME=speech10><b>SEYTON</b></a>
  4094. <blockquote>
  4095. <A NAME=5.3.35>All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.</A><br>
  4096. </blockquote>
  4097. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4098. <blockquote>
  4099. <A NAME=5.3.36>I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.</A><br>
  4100. <A NAME=5.3.37>Give me my armour.</A><br>
  4101. </blockquote>
  4102. <A NAME=speech12><b>SEYTON</b></a>
  4103. <blockquote>
  4104. <A NAME=5.3.38>'Tis not needed yet.</A><br>
  4105. </blockquote>
  4106. <A NAME=speech13><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4107. <blockquote>
  4108. <A NAME=5.3.39>I'll put it on.</A><br>
  4109. <A NAME=5.3.40>Send out more horses; skirr the country round;</A><br>
  4110. <A NAME=5.3.41>Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.</A><br>
  4111. <A NAME=5.3.42>How does your patient, doctor?</A><br>
  4112. </blockquote>
  4113. <A NAME=speech14><b>Doctor</b></a>
  4114. <blockquote>
  4115. <A NAME=5.3.43>Not so sick, my lord,</A><br>
  4116. <A NAME=5.3.44>As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,</A><br>
  4117. <A NAME=5.3.45>That keep her from her rest.</A><br>
  4118. </blockquote>
  4119. <A NAME=speech15><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4120. <blockquote>
  4121. <A NAME=5.3.46>Cure her of that.</A><br>
  4122. <A NAME=5.3.47>Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,</A><br>
  4123. <A NAME=5.3.48>Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,</A><br>
  4124. <A NAME=5.3.49>Raze out the written troubles of the brain</A><br>
  4125. <A NAME=5.3.50>And with some sweet oblivious antidote</A><br>
  4126. <A NAME=5.3.51>Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff</A><br>
  4127. <A NAME=5.3.52>Which weighs upon the heart?</A><br>
  4128. </blockquote>
  4129. <A NAME=speech16><b>Doctor</b></a>
  4130. <blockquote>
  4131. <A NAME=5.3.53>Therein the patient</A><br>
  4132. <A NAME=5.3.54>Must minister to himself.</A><br>
  4133. </blockquote>
  4134. <A NAME=speech17><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4135. <blockquote>
  4136. <A NAME=5.3.55>Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.</A><br>
  4137. <A NAME=5.3.56>Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.</A><br>
  4138. <A NAME=5.3.57>Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.</A><br>
  4139. <A NAME=5.3.58>Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast</A><br>
  4140. <A NAME=5.3.59>The water of my land, find her disease,</A><br>
  4141. <A NAME=5.3.60>And purge it to a sound and pristine health,</A><br>
  4142. <A NAME=5.3.61>I would applaud thee to the very echo,</A><br>
  4143. <A NAME=5.3.62>That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--</A><br>
  4144. <A NAME=5.3.63>What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,</A><br>
  4145. <A NAME=5.3.64>Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?</A><br>
  4146. </blockquote>
  4147. <A NAME=speech18><b>Doctor</b></a>
  4148. <blockquote>
  4149. <A NAME=5.3.65>Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation</A><br>
  4150. <A NAME=5.3.66>Makes us hear something.</A><br>
  4151. </blockquote>
  4152. <A NAME=speech19><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4153. <blockquote>
  4154. <A NAME=5.3.67>Bring it after me.</A><br>
  4155. <A NAME=5.3.68>I will not be afraid of death and bane,</A><br>
  4156. <A NAME=5.3.69>Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.</A><br>
  4157. </blockquote>
  4158. <A NAME=speech20><b>Doctor</b></a>
  4159. <blockquote>
  4160. <A NAME=5.3.70>[Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,</A><br>
  4161. <A NAME=5.3.71>Profit again should hardly draw me here.</A><br>
  4162. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  4163. </blockquote>
  4164. <h3>SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood.</h3>
  4165. <p><blockquote>
  4166. <i>Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching</i>
  4167. </blockquote>
  4168. <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4169. <blockquote>
  4170. <A NAME=5.4.1>Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand</A><br>
  4171. <A NAME=5.4.2>That chambers will be safe.</A><br>
  4172. </blockquote>
  4173. <A NAME=speech2><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
  4174. <blockquote>
  4175. <A NAME=5.4.3>We doubt it nothing.</A><br>
  4176. </blockquote>
  4177. <A NAME=speech3><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4178. <blockquote>
  4179. <A NAME=5.4.4>What wood is this before us?</A><br>
  4180. </blockquote>
  4181. <A NAME=speech4><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
  4182. <blockquote>
  4183. <A NAME=5.4.5>The wood of Birnam.</A><br>
  4184. </blockquote>
  4185. <A NAME=speech5><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4186. <blockquote>
  4187. <A NAME=5.4.6>Let every soldier hew him down a bough</A><br>
  4188. <A NAME=5.4.7>And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow</A><br>
  4189. <A NAME=5.4.8>The numbers of our host and make discovery</A><br>
  4190. <A NAME=5.4.9>Err in report of us.</A><br>
  4191. </blockquote>
  4192. <A NAME=speech6><b>Soldiers</b></a>
  4193. <blockquote>
  4194. <A NAME=5.4.10>It shall be done.</A><br>
  4195. </blockquote>
  4196. <A NAME=speech7><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4197. <blockquote>
  4198. <A NAME=5.4.11>We learn no other but the confident tyrant</A><br>
  4199. <A NAME=5.4.12>Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure</A><br>
  4200. <A NAME=5.4.13>Our setting down before 't.</A><br>
  4201. </blockquote>
  4202. <A NAME=speech8><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4203. <blockquote>
  4204. <A NAME=5.4.14>'Tis his main hope:</A><br>
  4205. <A NAME=5.4.15>For where there is advantage to be given,</A><br>
  4206. <A NAME=5.4.16>Both more and less have given him the revolt,</A><br>
  4207. <A NAME=5.4.17>And none serve with him but constrained things</A><br>
  4208. <A NAME=5.4.18>Whose hearts are absent too.</A><br>
  4209. </blockquote>
  4210. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4211. <blockquote>
  4212. <A NAME=5.4.19>Let our just censures</A><br>
  4213. <A NAME=5.4.20>Attend the true event, and put we on</A><br>
  4214. <A NAME=5.4.21>Industrious soldiership.</A><br>
  4215. </blockquote>
  4216. <A NAME=speech10><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4217. <blockquote>
  4218. <A NAME=5.4.22>The time approaches</A><br>
  4219. <A NAME=5.4.23>That will with due decision make us know</A><br>
  4220. <A NAME=5.4.24>What we shall say we have and what we owe.</A><br>
  4221. <A NAME=5.4.25>Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,</A><br>
  4222. <A NAME=5.4.26>But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:</A><br>
  4223. <A NAME=5.4.27>Towards which advance the war.</A><br>
  4224. <p><i>Exeunt, marching</i></p>
  4225. </blockquote>
  4226. <h3>SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.</h3>
  4227. <p><blockquote>
  4228. <i>Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours</i>
  4229. </blockquote>
  4230. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4231. <blockquote>
  4232. <A NAME=5.5.1>Hang out our banners on the outward walls;</A><br>
  4233. <A NAME=5.5.2>The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength</A><br>
  4234. <A NAME=5.5.3>Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie</A><br>
  4235. <A NAME=5.5.4>Till famine and the ague eat them up:</A><br>
  4236. <A NAME=5.5.5>Were they not forced with those that should be ours,</A><br>
  4237. <A NAME=5.5.6>We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,</A><br>
  4238. <A NAME=5.5.7>And beat them backward home.</A><br>
  4239. <p><i>A cry of women within</i></p>
  4240. <A NAME=5.5.8>What is that noise?</A><br>
  4241. </blockquote>
  4242. <A NAME=speech2><b>SEYTON</b></a>
  4243. <blockquote>
  4244. <A NAME=5.5.9>It is the cry of women, my good lord.</A><br>
  4245. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  4246. </blockquote>
  4247. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4248. <blockquote>
  4249. <A NAME=5.5.10>I have almost forgot the taste of fears;</A><br>
  4250. <A NAME=5.5.11>The time has been, my senses would have cool'd</A><br>
  4251. <A NAME=5.5.12>To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair</A><br>
  4252. <A NAME=5.5.13>Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir</A><br>
  4253. <A NAME=5.5.14>As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;</A><br>
  4254. <A NAME=5.5.15>Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts</A><br>
  4255. <A NAME=5.5.16>Cannot once start me.</A><br>
  4256. <p><i>Re-enter SEYTON</i></p>
  4257. <A NAME=5.5.17>Wherefore was that cry?</A><br>
  4258. </blockquote>
  4259. <A NAME=speech4><b>SEYTON</b></a>
  4260. <blockquote>
  4261. <A NAME=5.5.18>The queen, my lord, is dead.</A><br>
  4262. </blockquote>
  4263. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4264. <blockquote>
  4265. <A NAME=5.5.19>She should have died hereafter;</A><br>
  4266. <A NAME=5.5.20>There would have been a time for such a word.</A><br>
  4267. <A NAME=5.5.21>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,</A><br>
  4268. <A NAME=5.5.22>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day</A><br>
  4269. <A NAME=5.5.23>To the last syllable of recorded time,</A><br>
  4270. <A NAME=5.5.24>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</A><br>
  4271. <A NAME=5.5.25>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</A><br>
  4272. <A NAME=5.5.26>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player</A><br>
  4273. <A NAME=5.5.27>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</A><br>
  4274. <A NAME=5.5.28>And then is heard no more: it is a tale</A><br>
  4275. <A NAME=5.5.29>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,</A><br>
  4276. <A NAME=5.5.30>Signifying nothing.</A><br>
  4277. <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
  4278. <A NAME=5.5.31>Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.</A><br>
  4279. </blockquote>
  4280. <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a>
  4281. <blockquote>
  4282. <A NAME=5.5.32>Gracious my lord,</A><br>
  4283. <A NAME=5.5.33>I should report that which I say I saw,</A><br>
  4284. <A NAME=5.5.34>But know not how to do it.</A><br>
  4285. </blockquote>
  4286. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4287. <blockquote>
  4288. <A NAME=5.5.35>Well, say, sir.</A><br>
  4289. </blockquote>
  4290. <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a>
  4291. <blockquote>
  4292. <A NAME=5.5.36>As I did stand my watch upon the hill,</A><br>
  4293. <A NAME=5.5.37>I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,</A><br>
  4294. <A NAME=5.5.38>The wood began to move.</A><br>
  4295. </blockquote>
  4296. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4297. <blockquote>
  4298. <A NAME=5.5.39>Liar and slave!</A><br>
  4299. </blockquote>
  4300. <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a>
  4301. <blockquote>
  4302. <A NAME=5.5.40>Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:</A><br>
  4303. <A NAME=5.5.41>Within this three mile may you see it coming;</A><br>
  4304. <A NAME=5.5.42>I say, a moving grove.</A><br>
  4305. </blockquote>
  4306. <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4307. <blockquote>
  4308. <A NAME=5.5.43>If thou speak'st false,</A><br>
  4309. <A NAME=5.5.44>Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,</A><br>
  4310. <A NAME=5.5.45>Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,</A><br>
  4311. <A NAME=5.5.46>I care not if thou dost for me as much.</A><br>
  4312. <A NAME=5.5.47>I pull in resolution, and begin</A><br>
  4313. <A NAME=5.5.48>To doubt the equivocation of the fiend</A><br>
  4314. <A NAME=5.5.49>That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood</A><br>
  4315. <A NAME=5.5.50>Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood</A><br>
  4316. <A NAME=5.5.51>Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!</A><br>
  4317. <A NAME=5.5.52>If this which he avouches does appear,</A><br>
  4318. <A NAME=5.5.53>There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.</A><br>
  4319. <A NAME=5.5.54>I gin to be aweary of the sun,</A><br>
  4320. <A NAME=5.5.55>And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.</A><br>
  4321. <A NAME=5.5.56>Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!</A><br>
  4322. <A NAME=5.5.57>At least we'll die with harness on our back.</A><br>
  4323. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  4324. </blockquote>
  4325. <h3>SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle.</h3>
  4326. <p><blockquote>
  4327. <i>Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs</i>
  4328. </blockquote>
  4329. <A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4330. <blockquote>
  4331. <A NAME=5.6.1>Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.</A><br>
  4332. <A NAME=5.6.2>And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,</A><br>
  4333. <A NAME=5.6.3>Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,</A><br>
  4334. <A NAME=5.6.4>Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we</A><br>
  4335. <A NAME=5.6.5>Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,</A><br>
  4336. <A NAME=5.6.6>According to our order.</A><br>
  4337. </blockquote>
  4338. <A NAME=speech2><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4339. <blockquote>
  4340. <A NAME=5.6.7>Fare you well.</A><br>
  4341. <A NAME=5.6.8>Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,</A><br>
  4342. <A NAME=5.6.9>Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.</A><br>
  4343. </blockquote>
  4344. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4345. <blockquote>
  4346. <A NAME=5.6.10>Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,</A><br>
  4347. <A NAME=5.6.11>Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.</A><br>
  4348. <p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
  4349. </blockquote>
  4350. <h3>SCENE VII. Another part of the field.</h3>
  4351. <p><blockquote>
  4352. <i>Alarums. Enter MACBETH</i>
  4353. </blockquote>
  4354. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4355. <blockquote>
  4356. <A NAME=5.7.1>They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,</A><br>
  4357. <A NAME=5.7.2>But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he</A><br>
  4358. <A NAME=5.7.3>That was not born of woman? Such a one</A><br>
  4359. <A NAME=5.7.4>Am I to fear, or none.</A><br>
  4360. <p><i>Enter YOUNG SIWARD</i></p>
  4361. </blockquote>
  4362. <A NAME=speech2><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
  4363. <blockquote>
  4364. <A NAME=5.7.5>What is thy name?</A><br>
  4365. </blockquote>
  4366. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4367. <blockquote>
  4368. <A NAME=5.7.6> Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.</A><br>
  4369. </blockquote>
  4370. <A NAME=speech4><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
  4371. <blockquote>
  4372. <A NAME=5.7.7>No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name</A><br>
  4373. <A NAME=5.7.8>Than any is in hell.</A><br>
  4374. </blockquote>
  4375. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4376. <blockquote>
  4377. <A NAME=5.7.9>My name's Macbeth.</A><br>
  4378. </blockquote>
  4379. <A NAME=speech6><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
  4380. <blockquote>
  4381. <A NAME=5.7.10>The devil himself could not pronounce a title</A><br>
  4382. <A NAME=5.7.11>More hateful to mine ear.</A><br>
  4383. </blockquote>
  4384. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4385. <blockquote>
  4386. <A NAME=5.7.12>No, nor more fearful.</A><br>
  4387. </blockquote>
  4388. <A NAME=speech8><b>YOUNG SIWARD</b></a>
  4389. <blockquote>
  4390. <A NAME=5.7.13>Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword</A><br>
  4391. <A NAME=5.7.14>I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.</A><br>
  4392. <p><i>They fight and YOUNG SIWARD is slain</i></p>
  4393. </blockquote>
  4394. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4395. <blockquote>
  4396. <A NAME=5.7.15>Thou wast born of woman</A><br>
  4397. <A NAME=5.7.16>But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,</A><br>
  4398. <A NAME=5.7.17>Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.</A><br>
  4399. <p><i>Exit</i></p>
  4400. <p><i>Alarums. Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
  4401. </blockquote>
  4402. <A NAME=speech10><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4403. <blockquote>
  4404. <A NAME=5.7.18>That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!</A><br>
  4405. <A NAME=5.7.19>If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,</A><br>
  4406. <A NAME=5.7.20>My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.</A><br>
  4407. <A NAME=5.7.21>I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms</A><br>
  4408. <A NAME=5.7.22>Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,</A><br>
  4409. <A NAME=5.7.23>Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge</A><br>
  4410. <A NAME=5.7.24>I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;</A><br>
  4411. <A NAME=5.7.25>By this great clatter, one of greatest note</A><br>
  4412. <A NAME=5.7.26>Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!</A><br>
  4413. <A NAME=5.7.27>And more I beg not.</A><br>
  4414. <p><i>Exit. Alarums</i></p>
  4415. <p><i>Enter MALCOLM and SIWARD</i></p>
  4416. </blockquote>
  4417. <A NAME=speech11><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4418. <blockquote>
  4419. <A NAME=5.7.28>This way, my lord; the castle's gently render'd:</A><br>
  4420. <A NAME=5.7.29>The tyrant's people on both sides do fight;</A><br>
  4421. <A NAME=5.7.30>The noble thanes do bravely in the war;</A><br>
  4422. <A NAME=5.7.31>The day almost itself professes yours,</A><br>
  4423. <A NAME=5.7.32>And little is to do.</A><br>
  4424. </blockquote>
  4425. <A NAME=speech12><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4426. <blockquote>
  4427. <A NAME=5.7.33>We have met with foes</A><br>
  4428. <A NAME=5.7.34>That strike beside us.</A><br>
  4429. </blockquote>
  4430. <A NAME=speech13><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4431. <blockquote>
  4432. <A NAME=5.7.35>Enter, sir, the castle.</A><br>
  4433. <p><i>Exeunt. Alarums</i></p>
  4434. </blockquote>
  4435. <h3>SCENE VIII. Another part of the field.</h3>
  4436. <p><blockquote>
  4437. <i>Enter MACBETH</i>
  4438. </blockquote>
  4439. <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4440. <blockquote>
  4441. <A NAME=5.8.1>Why should I play the Roman fool, and die</A><br>
  4442. <A NAME=5.8.2>On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes</A><br>
  4443. <A NAME=5.8.3>Do better upon them.</A><br>
  4444. <p><i>Enter MACDUFF</i></p>
  4445. </blockquote>
  4446. <A NAME=speech2><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4447. <blockquote>
  4448. <A NAME=5.8.4>Turn, hell-hound, turn!</A><br>
  4449. </blockquote>
  4450. <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4451. <blockquote>
  4452. <A NAME=5.8.5>Of all men else I have avoided thee:</A><br>
  4453. <A NAME=5.8.6>But get thee back; my soul is too much charged</A><br>
  4454. <A NAME=5.8.7>With blood of thine already.</A><br>
  4455. </blockquote>
  4456. <A NAME=speech4><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4457. <blockquote>
  4458. <A NAME=5.8.8>I have no words:</A><br>
  4459. <A NAME=5.8.9>My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain</A><br>
  4460. <A NAME=5.8.10>Than terms can give thee out!</A><br>
  4461. <p><i>They fight</i></p>
  4462. </blockquote>
  4463. <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4464. <blockquote>
  4465. <A NAME=5.8.11>Thou losest labour:</A><br>
  4466. <A NAME=5.8.12>As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air</A><br>
  4467. <A NAME=5.8.13>With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:</A><br>
  4468. <A NAME=5.8.14>Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;</A><br>
  4469. <A NAME=5.8.15>I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,</A><br>
  4470. <A NAME=5.8.16>To one of woman born.</A><br>
  4471. </blockquote>
  4472. <A NAME=speech6><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4473. <blockquote>
  4474. <A NAME=5.8.17>Despair thy charm;</A><br>
  4475. <A NAME=5.8.18>And let the angel whom thou still hast served</A><br>
  4476. <A NAME=5.8.19>Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb</A><br>
  4477. <A NAME=5.8.20>Untimely ripp'd.</A><br>
  4478. </blockquote>
  4479. <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4480. <blockquote>
  4481. <A NAME=5.8.21>Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,</A><br>
  4482. <A NAME=5.8.22>For it hath cow'd my better part of man!</A><br>
  4483. <A NAME=5.8.23>And be these juggling fiends no more believed,</A><br>
  4484. <A NAME=5.8.24>That palter with us in a double sense;</A><br>
  4485. <A NAME=5.8.25>That keep the word of promise to our ear,</A><br>
  4486. <A NAME=5.8.26>And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.</A><br>
  4487. </blockquote>
  4488. <A NAME=speech8><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4489. <blockquote>
  4490. <A NAME=5.8.27>Then yield thee, coward,</A><br>
  4491. <A NAME=5.8.28>And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:</A><br>
  4492. <A NAME=5.8.29>We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,</A><br>
  4493. <A NAME=5.8.30>Painted on a pole, and underwrit,</A><br>
  4494. <A NAME=5.8.31>'Here may you see the tyrant.'</A><br>
  4495. </blockquote>
  4496. <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a>
  4497. <blockquote>
  4498. <A NAME=5.8.32>I will not yield,</A><br>
  4499. <A NAME=5.8.33>To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,</A><br>
  4500. <A NAME=5.8.34>And to be baited with the rabble's curse.</A><br>
  4501. <A NAME=5.8.35>Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,</A><br>
  4502. <A NAME=5.8.36>And thou opposed, being of no woman born,</A><br>
  4503. <A NAME=5.8.37>Yet I will try the last. Before my body</A><br>
  4504. <A NAME=5.8.38>I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,</A><br>
  4505. <A NAME=5.8.39>And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'</A><br>
  4506. <p><i>Exeunt, fighting. Alarums</i></p>
  4507. <p><i>Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers</i></p>
  4508. </blockquote>
  4509. <A NAME=speech10><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4510. <blockquote>
  4511. <A NAME=5.8.40>I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.</A><br>
  4512. </blockquote>
  4513. <A NAME=speech11><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4514. <blockquote>
  4515. <A NAME=5.8.41>Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,</A><br>
  4516. <A NAME=5.8.42>So great a day as this is cheaply bought.</A><br>
  4517. </blockquote>
  4518. <A NAME=speech12><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4519. <blockquote>
  4520. <A NAME=5.8.43>Macduff is missing, and your noble son.</A><br>
  4521. </blockquote>
  4522. <A NAME=speech13><b>ROSS</b></a>
  4523. <blockquote>
  4524. <A NAME=5.8.44>Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:</A><br>
  4525. <A NAME=5.8.45>He only lived but till he was a man;</A><br>
  4526. <A NAME=5.8.46>The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd</A><br>
  4527. <A NAME=5.8.47>In the unshrinking station where he fought,</A><br>
  4528. <A NAME=5.8.48>But like a man he died.</A><br>
  4529. </blockquote>
  4530. <A NAME=speech14><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4531. <blockquote>
  4532. <A NAME=5.8.49>Then he is dead?</A><br>
  4533. </blockquote>
  4534. <A NAME=speech15><b>ROSS</b></a>
  4535. <blockquote>
  4536. <A NAME=5.8.50>Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow</A><br>
  4537. <A NAME=5.8.51>Must not be measured by his worth, for then</A><br>
  4538. <A NAME=5.8.52>It hath no end.</A><br>
  4539. </blockquote>
  4540. <A NAME=speech16><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4541. <blockquote>
  4542. <A NAME=5.8.53> Had he his hurts before?</A><br>
  4543. </blockquote>
  4544. <A NAME=speech17><b>ROSS</b></a>
  4545. <blockquote>
  4546. <A NAME=5.8.54>Ay, on the front.</A><br>
  4547. </blockquote>
  4548. <A NAME=speech18><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4549. <blockquote>
  4550. <A NAME=5.8.55> Why then, God's soldier be he!</A><br>
  4551. <A NAME=5.8.56>Had I as many sons as I have hairs,</A><br>
  4552. <A NAME=5.8.57>I would not wish them to a fairer death:</A><br>
  4553. <A NAME=5.8.58>And so, his knell is knoll'd.</A><br>
  4554. </blockquote>
  4555. <A NAME=speech19><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4556. <blockquote>
  4557. <A NAME=5.8.59>He's worth more sorrow,</A><br>
  4558. <A NAME=5.8.60>And that I'll spend for him.</A><br>
  4559. </blockquote>
  4560. <A NAME=speech20><b>SIWARD</b></a>
  4561. <blockquote>
  4562. <A NAME=5.8.61>He's worth no more</A><br>
  4563. <A NAME=5.8.62>They say he parted well, and paid his score:</A><br>
  4564. <A NAME=5.8.63>And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.</A><br>
  4565. <p><i>Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head</i></p>
  4566. </blockquote>
  4567. <A NAME=speech21><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
  4568. <blockquote>
  4569. <A NAME=5.8.64>Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands</A><br>
  4570. <A NAME=5.8.65>The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:</A><br>
  4571. <A NAME=5.8.66>I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,</A><br>
  4572. <A NAME=5.8.67>That speak my salutation in their minds;</A><br>
  4573. <A NAME=5.8.68>Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:</A><br>
  4574. <A NAME=5.8.69>Hail, King of Scotland!</A><br>
  4575. </blockquote>
  4576. <A NAME=speech22><b>ALL</b></a>
  4577. <blockquote>
  4578. <A NAME=5.8.70>Hail, King of Scotland!</A><br>
  4579. <p><i>Flourish</i></p>
  4580. </blockquote>
  4581. <A NAME=speech23><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
  4582. <blockquote>
  4583. <A NAME=5.8.71>We shall not spend a large expense of time</A><br>
  4584. <A NAME=5.8.72>Before we reckon with your several loves,</A><br>
  4585. <A NAME=5.8.73>And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,</A><br>
  4586. <A NAME=5.8.74>Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland</A><br>
  4587. <A NAME=5.8.75>In such an honour named. What's more to do,</A><br>
  4588. <A NAME=5.8.76>Which would be planted newly with the time,</A><br>
  4589. <A NAME=5.8.77>As calling home our exiled friends abroad</A><br>
  4590. <A NAME=5.8.78>That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;</A><br>
  4591. <A NAME=5.8.79>Producing forth the cruel ministers</A><br>
  4592. <A NAME=5.8.80>Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,</A><br>
  4593. <A NAME=5.8.81>Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands</A><br>
  4594. <A NAME=5.8.82>Took off her life; this, and what needful else</A><br>
  4595. <A NAME=5.8.83>That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,</A><br>
  4596. <A NAME=5.8.84>We will perform in measure, time and place:</A><br>
  4597. <A NAME=5.8.85>So, thanks to all at once and to each one,</A><br>
  4598. <A NAME=5.8.86>Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.</A><br>
  4599. <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p>
  4600. </body>
  4601. </html>