Come, go we to the king: our power is ready; Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may; 1985 The night is long, that never finds the day. [Exeunt. 200 1990 1995 2000 ACT V. SCENE I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle. Enter a Doctor of Physic, and a waiting Gentlewoman. Doct. I have two nights watch'd with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last walk'd? Gent. Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon 't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep. Doct. A great perturbation in nature! to receive at once Gent. That, Sir, which I will not report after her. 201 201 20 tence being, not that the music of the spheres | relation to harmony, must necessarily have pos- text. 7. 1984. PUT ON their instruments.] To put on is here to urge on, or put forward. Gent. Neither to you, nor any one; having no witness to confirm my speech. Enter Lady MACBETH, with a Taper. Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, Gent. Why, it stood by her: she has light by her Doct. You see, her eyes are open. Gent. Ay, but their sense are shut. Look, how she rubs her hands. Gent. It is an accustom'd action with her, to seem thus washing her hands; I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. Lady M. Yet here's a spot. Doct. Hark, she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Lady M. Out, damned spot! out, I say!-One; Two; Why, then 'tis time to do 't:-Hell is murky !—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account!-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? 9. Ay, but their sense ARE shut.] Sense so profound abysm I throw all care "nought's had, all's spent, When our desire is got without content." She has attained the crown she desired, but not the contentment she expected with it. The kingdom is in rebellion; the love and homage due to royalty," and all the large effects that troop with majesty," fly from her command; and because, during the absence of her husband, she has no longer anything to divert her gaze from the wickedness of her life, her hardihood has given way. SCENE II. The Country near Dunsinane. Enter, with Drum and Colours, MENTETH, CATHNESS, ANGUS, Ment. The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. Revenges burn in them: for their dear causes Would, to the bleeding, and the grim alarm, Excite the mortified man. Ang. Near Birnam wood Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming. Cath. Who knows, if Donalbain be with his brother? Len. For certain, Sir, he is not: I have a file Of all the gentry; there is Siward's son, And many unrough youths, that even now Ment. What does the tyrant? Cath. Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies: He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Ang. Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands: Would, to the bleeding, and the grim | the bloody and grim call to arms, even one who alarm, Excite the MORTIFIED MAN.] i. e. their es of revenge would excite to answer had mortified the deeds or members of the body. The expression is derived from the writings of St. Paul, Rom. viii. 13; Col. iii. 5. |