2 Witch. All hail, Macbeth thane of Cawdor! hail to thee, 3 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter. Ban. Good Sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair ?-I'the name of Are ye fantastical or that indeed Of noble having, + and of royal hope, [not: Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 1 Witch. Hail! 2 Witch. Hail! 3 Witch. Hail! 1 Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. be none: So, all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! 1 Witch. Banquo and Macbeth, all hail! Macb. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: By Sinel's death § I know I am thane of Glamis; you. As breath into the wind.-'Would they staid ! had Ban. Were such things here, as we do speak about; Or have we eaten of the insane root, That takes the reason prisoner? Macb. Your children shall be kings. Macb. And thane of Cawdor too; went it not so? [here? Ban. To the self-same tune and words. Who's Enter ROSSE and ANGUS. Rosse. The king hath happily receiv'd, Mac- The news of thy success; and when he reads In viewing o'er the rest o'the self-same day, In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! Ban. What, can the devil speak true? Ang. Who was the thane, lives yet; He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; Macb. Glamis and thane of Cawdor: pains. Do you not hope your children shall be kings, Ban. That trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Macb. Two truths are told, If good, why do I yield to that suggestion || Ban. Look, how our partner's rapt. Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments; cleave not to the mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may; Time and the hour ++ runs through the roughest day. Ban. Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. Macb. Give me your favour: ‡‡-my dull brain was wrought [pains With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your Are register'd where every day I turn The leaf to read them.-Let us toward the [time, Think upon what hath chanc'd; and, at more The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other. king; Ban. Very gladly. Macb. Till then, enough.-Come, friends. SCENE IV.-Fores.-A Room in the Palace. Are t Encitement. Glamis is still standing, and is the magnificent residence of Earl Strathmore. Firmly fixed. 11 Pardon. Temptation. The powers of action are ft Time and oppor 2 T Mal. My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke Dun. There's no art, To find the mind's construction in the face: + Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSSE, and ANGUS. To overtake thee. 'Would thou hadst less deserv'd ; That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine! only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay. Mach. The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties; and our duties Are to your throne and state, children, and servants, Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. Dun. Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour Ban. There if I grow, Dun. My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves Macb. The rest is labour, which is not us'd for you: I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful Dun. My worthy Cawdor! Mach. The prince of Cumberland 1-That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your tires! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant ; || And in his comniendations, I am fed ; SCENE V.-Inverness.-A Room in Enter Lady MACBETH, reading a letter. Owned, possessed. |report, they have more in them than morta, knowledge. When I burned in desire & question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives + from the king, who all-hailed me, Thane of Cawdor; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with Hail king that shalt be! This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness; that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promis'd :-Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way: Thou would'st be great; Art not without ambition; but without That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; Enter an ATTENDANT. Is not thy master with him? who, wer't so, Attend. So please you, it is true; our thane is coming: One of my fellows had the speed of him; more That would make up bis message. He brings great news. The raven himself is That tend on mortal || thought, unsex me here; Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! That my keen knife t† see not the wound it makes; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, Cawdor! To cry, Hold, Hold!-Great Glamis ! worthy Enter MACBETH Greater than both, by the all-bail hereafter ! The best intelligence. ↑ Messengers. Supernatural. ↑ Diadem. Pity. ++ Knife aucientl it I e. Beyond the 1 Murderous. 4 We cannot construe the disposition of the mind by **Wrap as in a mantle. the lineaments of the face. 1 Exuberant. meant a sword or dagger. present time, which is according to the process of naFull as valiant as described.ture ignorant of the future. The walls of Macbeth's Castle at Inverness, are yet standing. Mecb. My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes bence? Macb. To-morrow,-as he purposes. Lady M. Oh! never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters :-To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. He that's coming SCENE VII.-The same.-A Room in the Castle. Hautboys and torches. Enter, and pass over the stage, a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service. Then enter MACBETH. Macb. If it were doue, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination We still have judgment here; that we but teach tice can To our own lips. He's here in double trust: spur Lady M. Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, Macb. Pr'ythee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Lady M. What beast was it then, And, to be more than what you were, you would [place, Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fit[know ness now Does unmake you. I have given suck; and An officer so called from his placing th. dishes on the table. Winds; sightless is invisible. How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this. Macb. If we should fail, Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, ney Sonndly invite him,) his two chamberlains Macb. Bring forth men-children only! two Would spend it in some words upon that bus If you would grant the time. Macb. If you shall cleave to my consent,→ It shall make honour for you. Ban. So I lose none, In seeking to augment it, but still keep Macb. Good repose, the while! Ban. Thanks, Sir; The like to you! [Exit BANQUo. Macb. Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [Exit Servant. Is this a dagger, which I see before me, I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. As this which now I draw. Of his own chamber, and us'd their very dag-Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going; gers, That they have don't? Lady M. Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar Macb. I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. ACT II. SCENE 1.-The same.-Court within the Castle. Enter BANQUO and FLEANCE, and a Servant, with a torch before them. Ban. How goes the night, boy? And such an instrument I was to use. It is the bloody business, which informs Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.--Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Fle. The moon is down; I have not heard the Thy very stones prate of my where-about, Ban. What, Sir, not yet at rest? The king's What hath quench'd them bath given me fire: a-bed : He hath been in unusual pleasure, and Sent forth great largess ¶ to your offices; -Hark!-Peace! He is It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms Again to sleep. Lady M. There are two lodg'd together. Macb. One cried, God bless us! aud Amen, the other; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear-I could not say, Amen, Lady M. Consider it not so deeply. I had most need of blessing, and Amen Lady M. These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad. Mach. Methought, I heard a voice cry, Sleep How is't with me, when every uoise appals me ? What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Re-enter Lady MACBETH. Lady M. My hands are of your colour; but Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, Macb. To know my deed,-'twere best not Wake Duncan with thy knocking! Ay, 'would thou could'st! [Exeunt. SCENE III.-The same. Enter a PORTER.—[Knocking within.] Port. Here's a knocking, indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old * turning the key. [Knocking.] Knock, knock, knock: Who's there, i'the name of Belzebub ? Here's a farmer, that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty: Come in time; have napkius enough about you; here you'll sweat for't. [Knocking.] Knock, knock: Who's there, i'the devil's name? 'Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O come in, equivocator. [Knocking.] Knock, kuock, knock: Who's there? 'Faith here's an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose: Come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose. [Knocking.] Knock, knock: Never at quiet! What are you?-But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: 1 had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the ever lasting bonfire. [Knocking.] Anon, anon; I pray you, remember the porter. [Opens the gate. Enter MACDUFF and LENOX. Macd. Was it so late, friend, ere you went That you do lie so late? [to bed, Port. 'Faith, Sir, we were carousing till the secoud cock and drink, Sir, is a great provoker of three things. Macd. What three things does drink especially provoke? Port. Marry, Sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, Sir, it provokes and unpro. vokes it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him staud to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. Macd. I believe, drink gave thee the lie last night. Port. That it did, Sir, i'the very throat o'me : But I requited him for his lie; and, I think, being too strong for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him. Macd. Is thy master stirring ?Our knocking has awak'd him; here he comes. |