XVI.

LADY MACBETH walking in her sleep.

"LADY M. Out, damned spot! out, I say!

The thane of Fife had a wife-where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?

Doc. Go to, go to; you have known what you should

not.

GENT. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: Heaven knows what she has known.

LADY M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!

DOCT. What a sigh is there!

charged.

The heart is sorely

GENT. I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the dignity of the whole body."

ACT V. S. 1.

XVII.

MALCOLM ordering the army to conceal their numbers by the branches of trees. The wood of Birnam.

"MAL. Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
And bear 't before him; thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host, and make discovery
Err in report of us."

ACT V. S. 4.

XVIII.

"The queen, my lord, is dead.

MACB.

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death."

ACT V. S. 5.

XIX.

A Messenger.

"As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and, anon, methought

The wood began to move.

MACB.

MESS.

Liar and slave!

Within this three mile may you see it coming;

I say, a moving grove."

ACT V. S. 5.

XX.

MACDUFF kills MACBETH-young SIWARD is lying dead, having been killed by MACBETH-MALCOLM is hailed king.

To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last: lay on, Macduff,

And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough!

NINETEEN PLATES.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED

BY FRANK HOWARD.