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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Macbeth: Entire Play </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">  <a href="#5.8.86">Quick link to last speech</a> <H3>ACT I</h3> <h3>SCENE I. A desert place.</h3> <blockquote> Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.1>When shall we three meet again</A> <A NAME=1.1.2>In thunder, lightning, or in rain?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.3>When the hurlyburly's done,</A> <A NAME=1.1.4>When the battle's lost and won.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.5>That will be ere the set of sun.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.6>Where the place?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.7> Upon the heath.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.8>There to meet with Macbeth.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.9>I come, Graymalkin!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.10>Paddock calls.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.11>Anon.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>ALL</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.12>Fair is foul, and foul is fair:</A> <A NAME=1.1.13>Hover through the fog and filthy air.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. A camp near Forres.</h3> <blockquote> Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.1>What bloody man is that? He can report,</A> <A NAME=1.2.2>As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt</A> <A NAME=1.2.3>The newest state.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>MALCOLM</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.4> This is the sergeant</A> <A NAME=1.2.5>Who like a good and hardy soldier fought</A> <A NAME=1.2.6>'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!</A> <A NAME=1.2.7>Say to the king the knowledge of the broil</A> <A NAME=1.2.8>As thou didst leave it.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>Sergeant</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.9>Doubtful it stood;</A> <A NAME=1.2.10>As two spent swimmers, that do cling together</A> <A NAME=1.2.11>And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--</A> <A NAME=1.2.12>Worthy to be a rebel, for to that</A> <A NAME=1.2.13>The multiplying villanies of nature</A> <A NAME=1.2.14>Do swarm upon him--from the western isles</A> <A NAME=1.2.15>Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;</A> <A NAME=1.2.16>And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,</A> <A NAME=1.2.17>Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:</A> <A NAME=1.2.18>For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--</A> <A NAME=1.2.19>Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,</A> <A NAME=1.2.20>Which smoked with bloody execution,</A> <A NAME=1.2.21>Like valour's minion carved out his passage</A> <A NAME=1.2.22>Till he faced the slave;</A> <A NAME=1.2.23>Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,</A> <A NAME=1.2.24>Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,</A> <A NAME=1.2.25>And fix'd his head upon our battlements.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.26>O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>Sergeant</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.27>As whence the sun 'gins his reflection</A> <A NAME=1.2.28>Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,</A> <A NAME=1.2.29>So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come</A> <A NAME=1.2.30>Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:</A> <A NAME=1.2.31>No sooner justice had with valour arm'd</A> <A NAME=1.2.32>Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,</A> <A NAME=1.2.33>But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,</A> <A NAME=1.2.34>With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men</A> <A NAME=1.2.35>Began a fresh assault.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.36>Dismay'd not this</A> <A NAME=1.2.37>Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>Sergeant</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.38>Yes;</A> <A NAME=1.2.39>As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.</A> <A NAME=1.2.40>If I say sooth, I must report they were</A> <A NAME=1.2.41>As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they</A> <A NAME=1.2.42>Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:</A> <A NAME=1.2.43>Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,</A> <A NAME=1.2.44>Or memorise another Golgotha,</A> <A NAME=1.2.45>I cannot tell.</A> <A NAME=1.2.46>But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.47>So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;</A> <A NAME=1.2.48>They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.</A> Exit Sergeant, attended <A NAME=1.2.49>Who comes here?</A> Enter ROSS </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>MALCOLM</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.50> The worthy thane of Ross.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>LENNOX</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.51>What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look</A> <A NAME=1.2.52>That seems to speak things strange.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.53>God save the king!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.54>Whence camest thou, worthy thane?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.55>From Fife, great king;</A> <A NAME=1.2.56>Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky</A> <A NAME=1.2.57>And fan our people cold. Norway himself,</A> <A NAME=1.2.58>With terrible numbers,</A> <A NAME=1.2.59>Assisted by that most disloyal traitor</A> <A NAME=1.2.60>The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;</A> <A NAME=1.2.61>Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,</A> <A NAME=1.2.62>Confronted him with self-comparisons,</A> <A NAME=1.2.63>Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.</A> <A NAME=1.2.64>Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,</A> <A NAME=1.2.65>The victory fell on us.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.66>Great happiness!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.67>That now</A> <A NAME=1.2.68>Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:</A> <A NAME=1.2.69>Nor would we deign him burial of his men</A> <A NAME=1.2.70>Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch</A> <A NAME=1.2.71>Ten thousand dollars to our general use.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.72>No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive</A> <A NAME=1.2.73>Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,</A> <A NAME=1.2.74>And with his former title greet Macbeth.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.75>I'll see it done.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.76>What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE III. A heath near Forres.</h3> <blockquote> Thunder. Enter the three Witches </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.1>Where hast thou been, sister?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.2>Killing swine.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.3>Sister, where thou?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.4>A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,</A> <A NAME=1.3.5>And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--</A> <A NAME=1.3.6>'Give me,' quoth I:</A> <A NAME=1.3.7>'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.</A> <A NAME=1.3.8>Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:</A> <A NAME=1.3.9>But in a sieve I'll thither sail,</A> <A NAME=1.3.10>And, like a rat without a tail,</A> <A NAME=1.3.11>I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.12>I'll give thee a wind.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.13>Thou'rt kind.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.14>And I another.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.15>I myself have all the other,</A> <A NAME=1.3.16>And the very ports they blow,</A> <A NAME=1.3.17>All the quarters that they know</A> <A NAME=1.3.18>I' the shipman's card.</A> <A NAME=1.3.19>I will drain him dry as hay:</A> <A NAME=1.3.20>Sleep shall neither night nor day</A> <A NAME=1.3.21>Hang upon his pent-house lid;</A> <A NAME=1.3.22>He shall live a man forbid:</A> <A NAME=1.3.23>Weary se'nnights nine times nine</A> <A NAME=1.3.24>Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:</A> <A NAME=1.3.25>Though his bark cannot be lost,</A> <A NAME=1.3.26>Yet it shall be tempest-tost.</A> <A NAME=1.3.27>Look what I have.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.28>Show me, show me.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.29>Here I have a pilot's thumb,</A> <A NAME=1.3.30>Wreck'd as homeward he did come.</A> Drum within </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.31>A drum, a drum!</A> <A NAME=1.3.32>Macbeth doth come.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12>ALL</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.33>The weird sisters, hand in hand,</A> <A NAME=1.3.34>Posters of the sea and land,</A> <A NAME=1.3.35>Thus do go about, about:</A> <A NAME=1.3.36>Thrice to thine and thrice to mine</A> <A NAME=1.3.37>And thrice again, to make up nine.</A> <A NAME=1.3.38>Peace! the charm's wound up.</A> Enter MACBETH and BANQUO </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.39>So foul and fair a day I have not seen.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.40>How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these</A> <A NAME=1.3.41>So wither'd and so wild in their attire,</A> <A NAME=1.3.42>That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,</A> <A NAME=1.3.43>And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught</A> <A NAME=1.3.44>That man may question? You seem to understand me,</A> <A NAME=1.3.45>By each at once her chappy finger laying</A> <A NAME=1.3.46>Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,</A> <A NAME=1.3.47>And yet your beards forbid me to interpret</A> <A NAME=1.3.48>That you are so.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.49> Speak, if you can: what are you?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.50>All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.51>All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.52>All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.53>Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear</A> <A NAME=1.3.54>Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,</A> <A NAME=1.3.55>Are ye fantastical, or that indeed</A> <A NAME=1.3.56>Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner</A> <A NAME=1.3.57>You greet with present grace and great prediction</A> <A NAME=1.3.58>Of noble having and of royal hope,</A> <A NAME=1.3.59>That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.</A> <A NAME=1.3.60>If you can look into the seeds of time,</A> <A NAME=1.3.61>And say which grain will grow and which will not,</A> <A NAME=1.3.62>Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear</A> <A NAME=1.3.63>Your favours nor your hate.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.64>Hail!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.65>Hail!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.66>Hail!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.67>Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24>Second Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.68>Not so happy, yet much happier.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25>Third Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.69>Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:</A> <A NAME=1.3.70>So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26>First Witch</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.71>Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.72>Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:</A> <A NAME=1.3.73>By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;</A> <A NAME=1.3.74>But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,</A> <A NAME=1.3.75>A prosperous gentleman; and to be king</A> <A NAME=1.3.76>Stands not within the prospect of belief,</A> <A NAME=1.3.77>No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence</A> <A NAME=1.3.78>You owe this strange intelligence? or why</A> <A NAME=1.3.79>Upon this blasted heath you stop our way</A> <A NAME=1.3.80>With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.</A> Witches vanish </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.81>The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,</A> <A NAME=1.3.82>And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.83>Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted</A> <A NAME=1.3.84>As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.85>Were such things here as we do speak about?</A> <A NAME=1.3.86>Or have we eaten on the insane root</A> <A NAME=1.3.87>That takes the reason prisoner?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.88>Your children shall be kings.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.89>You shall be king.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.90>And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.91>To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?</A> Enter ROSS and ANGUS </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.92>The king hath happily received, Macbeth,</A> <A NAME=1.3.93>The news of thy success; and when he reads</A> <A NAME=1.3.94>Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,</A> <A NAME=1.3.95>His wonders and his praises do contend</A> <A NAME=1.3.96>Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,</A> <A NAME=1.3.97>In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,</A> <A NAME=1.3.98>He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,</A> <A NAME=1.3.99>Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,</A> <A NAME=1.3.100>Strange images of death. As thick as hail</A> <A NAME=1.3.101>Came post with post; and every one did bear</A> <A NAME=1.3.102>Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,</A> <A NAME=1.3.103>And pour'd them down before him.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36>ANGUS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.104>We are sent</A> <A NAME=1.3.105>To give thee from our royal master thanks;</A> <A NAME=1.3.106>Only to herald thee into his sight,</A> <A NAME=1.3.107>Not pay thee.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37>ROSS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.108>And, for an earnest of a greater honour,</A> <A NAME=1.3.109>He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:</A> <A NAME=1.3.110>In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!</A> <A NAME=1.3.111>For it is thine.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.112> What, can the devil speak true?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.113>The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me</A> <A NAME=1.3.114>In borrow'd robes?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40>ANGUS</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.115> Who was the thane lives yet;</A> <A NAME=1.3.116>But under heavy judgment bears that life</A> <A NAME=1.3.117>Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined</A> <A NAME=1.3.118>With those of Norway, or did line the rebel</A> <A NAME=1.3.119>With hidden help and vantage, or that with both</A> <A NAME=1.3.120>He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;</A> <A NAME=1.3.121>But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,</A> <A NAME=1.3.122>Have overthrown him.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.123>[Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!</A> <A NAME=1.3.124>The greatest is behind.</A> To ROSS and ANGUS <A NAME=1.3.125>Thanks for your pains.</A> To BANQUO <A NAME=1.3.126>Do you not hope your children shall be kings,</A> <A NAME=1.3.127>When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me</A> <A NAME=1.3.128>Promised no less to them?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.129>That trusted home</A> <A NAME=1.3.130>Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,</A> <A NAME=1.3.131>Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:</A> <A NAME=1.3.132>And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,</A> <A NAME=1.3.133>The instruments of darkness tell us truths,</A> <A NAME=1.3.134>Win us with honest trifles, to betray's</A> <A NAME=1.3.135>In deepest consequence.</A> <A NAME=1.3.136>Cousins, a word, I pray you.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.137>[Aside] Two truths are told,</A> <A NAME=1.3.138>As happy prologues to the swelling act</A> <A NAME=1.3.139>Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.</A> Aside <A NAME=1.3.140>Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,</A> <A NAME=1.3.141>Why hath it given me earnest of success,</A> <A NAME=1.3.142>Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:</A> <A NAME=1.3.143>If good, why do I yield to that suggestion</A> <A NAME=1.3.144>Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair</A> <A NAME=1.3.145>And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,</A> <A NAME=1.3.146>Against the use of nature? Present fears</A> <A NAME=1.3.147>Are less than horrible imaginings:</A> <A NAME=1.3.148>My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,</A> <A NAME=1.3.149>Shakes so my single state of man that function</A> <A NAME=1.3.150>Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is</A> <A NAME=1.3.151>But what is not.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.152> Look, how our partner's rapt.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.153>[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,</A> <A NAME=1.3.154>Without my stir.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.155> New horrors come upon him,</A> <A NAME=1.3.156>Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould</A> <A NAME=1.3.157>But with the aid of use.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.158>[Aside] Come what come may,</A> <A NAME=1.3.159>Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.160>Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.161>Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought</A> <A NAME=1.3.162>With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains</A> <A NAME=1.3.163>Are register'd where every day I turn</A> <A NAME=1.3.164>The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.</A> <A NAME=1.3.165>Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,</A> <A NAME=1.3.166>The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak</A> <A NAME=1.3.167>Our free hearts each to other.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.168>Very gladly.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.169>Till then, enough. Come, friends.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.</h3> <blockquote> Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.1>Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not</A> <A NAME=1.4.2>Those in commission yet return'd?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>MALCOLM</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.3>My liege,</A> <A NAME=1.4.4>They are not yet come back. But I have spoke</A> <A NAME=1.4.5>With one that saw him die: who did report</A> <A NAME=1.4.6>That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,</A> <A NAME=1.4.7>Implored your highness' pardon and set forth</A> <A NAME=1.4.8>A deep repentance: nothing in his life</A> <A NAME=1.4.9>Became him like the leaving it; he died</A> <A NAME=1.4.10>As one that had been studied in his death</A> <A NAME=1.4.11>To throw away the dearest thing he owed,</A> <A NAME=1.4.12>As 'twere a careless trifle.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.13>There's no art</A> <A NAME=1.4.14>To find the mind's construction in the face:</A> <A NAME=1.4.15>He was a gentleman on whom I built</A> <A NAME=1.4.16>An absolute trust.</A> Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS <A NAME=1.4.17>O worthiest cousin!</A> <A NAME=1.4.18>The sin of my ingratitude even now</A> <A NAME=1.4.19>Was heavy on me: thou art so far before</A> <A NAME=1.4.20>That swiftest wing of recompense is slow</A> <A NAME=1.4.21>To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,</A> <A NAME=1.4.22>That the proportion both of thanks and payment</A> <A NAME=1.4.23>Might have been mine! only I have left to say,</A> <A NAME=1.4.24>More is thy due than more than all can pay.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.25>The service and the loyalty I owe,</A> <A NAME=1.4.26>In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part</A> <A NAME=1.4.27>Is to receive our duties; and our duties</A> <A NAME=1.4.28>Are to your throne and state children and servants,</A> <A NAME=1.4.29>Which do but what they should, by doing every thing</A> <A NAME=1.4.30>Safe toward your love and honour.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.31>Welcome hither:</A> <A NAME=1.4.32>I have begun to plant thee, and will labour</A> <A NAME=1.4.33>To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,</A> <A NAME=1.4.34>That hast no less deserved, nor must be known</A> <A NAME=1.4.35>No less to have done so, let me enfold thee</A> <A NAME=1.4.36>And hold thee to my heart.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.37>There if I grow,</A> <A NAME=1.4.38>The harvest is your own.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.39>My plenteous joys,</A> <A NAME=1.4.40>Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves</A> <A NAME=1.4.41>In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,</A> <A NAME=1.4.42>And you whose places are the nearest, know</A> <A NAME=1.4.43>We will establish our estate upon</A> <A NAME=1.4.44>Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter</A> <A NAME=1.4.45>The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must</A> <A NAME=1.4.46>Not unaccompanied invest him only,</A> <A NAME=1.4.47>But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine</A> <A NAME=1.4.48>On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,</A> <A NAME=1.4.49>And bind us further to you.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.50>The rest is labour, which is not used for you:</A> <A NAME=1.4.51>I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful</A> <A NAME=1.4.52>The hearing of my wife with your approach;</A> <A NAME=1.4.53>So humbly take my leave.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.54>My worthy Cawdor!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.55>[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step</A> <A NAME=1.4.56>On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,</A> <A NAME=1.4.57>For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;</A> <A NAME=1.4.58>Let not light see my black and deep desires:</A> <A NAME=1.4.59>The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,</A> <A NAME=1.4.60>Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.</A> Exit </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.4.61>True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,</A> <A NAME=1.4.62>And in his commendations I am fed;</A> <A NAME=1.4.63>It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,</A> <A NAME=1.4.64>Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:</A> <A NAME=1.4.65>It is a peerless kinsman.</A> Flourish. Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.</h3> <blockquote> Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.1>'They met me in the day of success: and I have</A> <A NAME=1.5.2>learned by the perfectest report, they have more in</A> <A NAME=1.5.3>them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire</A> <A NAME=1.5.4>to question them further, they made themselves air,</A> <A NAME=1.5.5>into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in</A> <A NAME=1.5.6>the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who</A> <A NAME=1.5.7>all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,</A> <A NAME=1.5.8>before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred</A> <A NAME=1.5.9>me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that</A> <A NAME=1.5.10>shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver</A> <A NAME=1.5.11>thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou</A> <A NAME=1.5.12>mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being</A> <A NAME=1.5.13>ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it</A> <A NAME=1.5.14>to thy heart, and farewell.'</A> <A NAME=1.5.15>Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be</A> <A NAME=1.5.16>What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;</A> <A NAME=1.5.17>It is too full o' the milk of human kindness</A> <A NAME=1.5.18>To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;</A> <A NAME=1.5.19>Art not without ambition, but without</A> <A NAME=1.5.20>The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,</A> <A NAME=1.5.21>That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,</A> <A NAME=1.5.22>And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,</A> <A NAME=1.5.23>That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;</A> <A NAME=1.5.24>And that which rather thou dost fear to do</A> <A NAME=1.5.25>Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,</A> <A NAME=1.5.26>That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;</A> <A NAME=1.5.27>And chastise with the valour of my tongue</A> <A NAME=1.5.28>All that impedes thee from the golden round,</A> <A NAME=1.5.29>Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem</A> <A NAME=1.5.30>To have thee crown'd withal.</A> Enter a Messenger <A NAME=1.5.31>What is your tidings?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>Messenger</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.32>The king comes here to-night.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.33>Thou'rt mad to say it:</A> <A NAME=1.5.34>Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,</A> <A NAME=1.5.35>Would have inform'd for preparation.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>Messenger</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.36>So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:</A> <A NAME=1.5.37>One of my fellows had the speed of him,</A> <A NAME=1.5.38>Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more</A> <A NAME=1.5.39>Than would make up his message.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.40>Give him tending;</A> <A NAME=1.5.41>He brings great news.</A> Exit Messenger <A NAME=1.5.42>The raven himself is hoarse</A> <A NAME=1.5.43>That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan</A> <A NAME=1.5.44>Under my battlements. Come, you spirits</A> <A NAME=1.5.45>That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,</A> <A NAME=1.5.46>And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full</A> <A NAME=1.5.47>Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;</A> <A NAME=1.5.48>Stop up the access and passage to remorse,</A> <A NAME=1.5.49>That no compunctious visitings of nature</A> <A NAME=1.5.50>Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between</A> <A NAME=1.5.51>The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,</A> <A NAME=1.5.52>And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,</A> <A NAME=1.5.53>Wherever in your sightless substances</A> <A NAME=1.5.54>You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,</A> <A NAME=1.5.55>And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,</A> <A NAME=1.5.56>That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,</A> <A NAME=1.5.57>Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,</A> <A NAME=1.5.58>To cry 'Hold, hold!'</A> Enter MACBETH <A NAME=1.5.59>Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!</A> <A NAME=1.5.60>Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!</A> <A NAME=1.5.61>Thy letters have transported me beyond</A> <A NAME=1.5.62>This ignorant present, and I feel now</A> <A NAME=1.5.63>The future in the instant.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.64>My dearest love,</A> <A NAME=1.5.65>Duncan comes here to-night.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.66>And when goes hence?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.67>To-morrow, as he purposes.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.68>O, never</A> <A NAME=1.5.69>Shall sun that morrow see!</A> <A NAME=1.5.70>Your face, my thane, is as a book where men</A> <A NAME=1.5.71>May read strange matters. To beguile the time,</A> <A NAME=1.5.72>Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,</A> <A NAME=1.5.73>Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,</A> <A NAME=1.5.74>But be the serpent under't. He that's coming</A> <A NAME=1.5.75>Must be provided for: and you shall put</A> <A NAME=1.5.76>This night's great business into my dispatch;</A> <A NAME=1.5.77>Which shall to all our nights and days to come</A> <A NAME=1.5.78>Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.79>We will speak further.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.5.80>Only look up clear;</A> <A NAME=1.5.81>To alter favour ever is to fear:</A> <A NAME=1.5.82>Leave all the rest to me.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.</h3> <blockquote> Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.1>This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air</A> <A NAME=1.6.2>Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself</A> <A NAME=1.6.3>Unto our gentle senses.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.4>This guest of summer,</A> <A NAME=1.6.5>The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,</A> <A NAME=1.6.6>By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath</A> <A NAME=1.6.7>Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,</A> <A NAME=1.6.8>Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird</A> <A NAME=1.6.9>Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:</A> <A NAME=1.6.10>Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,</A> <A NAME=1.6.11>The air is delicate.</A> Enter LADY MACBETH </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.12>See, see, our honour'd hostess!</A> <A NAME=1.6.13>The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,</A> <A NAME=1.6.14>Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you</A> <A NAME=1.6.15>How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,</A> <A NAME=1.6.16>And thank us for your trouble.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.17>All our service</A> <A NAME=1.6.18>In every point twice done and then done double</A> <A NAME=1.6.19>Were poor and single business to contend</A> <A NAME=1.6.20>Against those honours deep and broad wherewith</A> <A NAME=1.6.21>Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,</A> <A NAME=1.6.22>And the late dignities heap'd up to them,</A> <A NAME=1.6.23>We rest your hermits.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.24>Where's the thane of Cawdor?</A> <A NAME=1.6.25>We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose</A> <A NAME=1.6.26>To be his purveyor: but he rides well;</A> <A NAME=1.6.27>And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him</A> <A NAME=1.6.28>To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,</A> <A NAME=1.6.29>We are your guest to-night.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.30>Your servants ever</A> <A NAME=1.6.31>Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,</A> <A NAME=1.6.32>To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,</A> <A NAME=1.6.33>Still to return your own.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>DUNCAN</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.6.34>Give me your hand;</A> <A NAME=1.6.35>Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,</A> <A NAME=1.6.36>And shall continue our graces towards him.</A> <A NAME=1.6.37>By your leave, hostess.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <h3>SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.</h3> <blockquote> Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.1>If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well</A> <A NAME=1.7.2>It were done quickly: if the assassination</A> <A NAME=1.7.3>Could trammel up the consequence, and catch</A> <A NAME=1.7.4>With his surcease success; that but this blow</A> <A NAME=1.7.5>Might be the be-all and the end-all here,</A> <A NAME=1.7.6>But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,</A> <A NAME=1.7.7>We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases</A> <A NAME=1.7.8>We still have judgment here; that we but teach</A> <A NAME=1.7.9>Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return</A> <A NAME=1.7.10>To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice</A> <A NAME=1.7.11>Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice</A> <A NAME=1.7.12>To our own lips. He's here in double trust;</A> <A NAME=1.7.13>First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,</A> <A NAME=1.7.14>Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,</A> <A NAME=1.7.15>Who should against his murderer shut the door,</A> <A NAME=1.7.16>Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan</A> <A NAME=1.7.17>Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been</A> <A NAME=1.7.18>So clear in his great office, that his virtues</A> <A NAME=1.7.19>Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against</A> <A NAME=1.7.20>The deep damnation of his taking-off;</A> <A NAME=1.7.21>And pity, like a naked new-born babe,</A> <A NAME=1.7.22>Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed</A> <A NAME=1.7.23>Upon the sightless couriers of the air,</A> <A NAME=1.7.24>Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,</A> <A NAME=1.7.25>That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur</A> <A NAME=1.7.26>To prick the sides of my intent, but only</A> <A NAME=1.7.27>Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself</A> <A NAME=1.7.28>And falls on the other.</A> Enter LADY MACBETH <A NAME=1.7.29>How now! what news?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.30>He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.31>Hath he ask'd for me?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.32>Know you not he has?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.33>We will proceed no further in this business:</A> <A NAME=1.7.34>He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought</A> <A NAME=1.7.35>Golden opinions from all sorts of people,</A> <A NAME=1.7.36>Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,</A> <A NAME=1.7.37>Not cast aside so soon.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.38>Was the hope drunk</A> <A NAME=1.7.39>Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?</A> <A NAME=1.7.40>And wakes it now, to look so green and pale</A> <A NAME=1.7.41>At what it did so freely? From this time</A> <A NAME=1.7.42>Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard</A> <A NAME=1.7.43>To be the same in thine own act and valour</A> <A NAME=1.7.44>As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that</A> <A NAME=1.7.45>Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,</A> <A NAME=1.7.46>And live a coward in thine own esteem,</A> <A NAME=1.7.47>Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'</A> <A NAME=1.7.48>Like the poor cat i' the adage?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.49>Prithee, peace:</A> <A NAME=1.7.50>I dare do all that may become a man;</A> <A NAME=1.7.51>Who dares do more is none.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.52>What beast was't, then,</A> <A NAME=1.7.53>That made you break this enterprise to me?</A> <A NAME=1.7.54>When you durst do it, then you were a man;</A> <A NAME=1.7.55>And, to be more than what you were, you would</A> <A NAME=1.7.56>Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place</A> <A NAME=1.7.57>Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:</A> <A NAME=1.7.58>They have made themselves, and that their fitness now</A> <A NAME=1.7.59>Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know</A> <A NAME=1.7.60>How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:</A> <A NAME=1.7.61>I would, while it was smiling in my face,</A> <A NAME=1.7.62>Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,</A> <A NAME=1.7.63>And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you</A> <A NAME=1.7.64>Have done to this.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.65> If we should fail?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.66>We fail!</A> <A NAME=1.7.67>But screw your courage to the sticking-place,</A> <A NAME=1.7.68>And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--</A> <A NAME=1.7.69>Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey</A> <A NAME=1.7.70>Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains</A> <A NAME=1.7.71>Will I with wine and wassail so convince</A> <A NAME=1.7.72>That memory, the warder of the brain,</A> <A NAME=1.7.73>Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason</A> <A NAME=1.7.74>A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep</A> <A NAME=1.7.75>Their drenched natures lie as in a death,</A> <A NAME=1.7.76>What cannot you and I perform upon</A> <A NAME=1.7.77>The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon</A> <A NAME=1.7.78>His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt</A> <A NAME=1.7.79>Of our great quell?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.80>Bring forth men-children only;</A> <A NAME=1.7.81>For thy undaunted mettle should compose</A> <A NAME=1.7.82>Nothing but males. Will it not be received,</A> <A NAME=1.7.83>When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two</A> <A NAME=1.7.84>Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,</A> <A NAME=1.7.85>That they have done't?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.86>Who dares receive it other,</A> <A NAME=1.7.87>As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar</A> <A NAME=1.7.88>Upon his death?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.7.89> I am settled, and bend up</A> <A NAME=1.7.90>Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.</A> <A NAME=1.7.91>Away, and mock the time with fairest show:</A> <A NAME=1.7.92>False face must hide what the false heart doth know.</A> Exeunt </blockquote> <H3>ACT II</h3> <h3>SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.</h3> <blockquote> Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.1>How goes the night, boy?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>FLEANCE</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.2>The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.3>And she goes down at twelve.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>FLEANCE</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.4>I take't, 'tis later, sir.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.5>Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;</A> <A NAME=2.1.6>Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.</A> <A NAME=2.1.7>A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,</A> <A NAME=2.1.8>And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,</A> <A NAME=2.1.9>Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature</A> <A NAME=2.1.10>Gives way to in repose!</A> Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch <A NAME=2.1.11>Give me my sword.</A> <A NAME=2.1.12>Who's there?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.13>A friend.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.14>What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:</A> <A NAME=2.1.15>He hath been in unusual pleasure, and</A> <A NAME=2.1.16>Sent forth great largess to your offices.</A> <A NAME=2.1.17>This diamond he greets your wife withal,</A> <A NAME=2.1.18>By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up</A> <A NAME=2.1.19>In measureless content.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.20>Being unprepared,</A> <A NAME=2.1.21>Our will became the servant to defect;</A> <A NAME=2.1.22>Which else should free have wrought.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.23>All's well.</A> <A NAME=2.1.24>I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:</A> <A NAME=2.1.25>To you they have show'd some truth.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.26>I think not of them:</A> <A NAME=2.1.27>Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,</A> <A NAME=2.1.28>We would spend it in some words upon that business,</A> <A NAME=2.1.29>If you would grant the time.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.30>At your kind'st leisure.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.31>If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,</A> <A NAME=2.1.32>It shall make honour for you.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.33>So I lose none</A> <A NAME=2.1.34>In seeking to augment it, but still keep</A> <A NAME=2.1.35>My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,</A> <A NAME=2.1.36>I shall be counsell'd.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.37>Good repose the while!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15>BANQUO</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.38>Thanks, sir: the like to you!</A> Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.39>Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,</A> <A NAME=2.1.40>She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.</A> Exit Servant <A NAME=2.1.41>Is this a dagger which I see before me,</A> <A NAME=2.1.42>The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.</A> <A NAME=2.1.43>I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.</A> <A NAME=2.1.44>Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible</A> <A NAME=2.1.45>To feeling as to sight? or art thou but</A> <A NAME=2.1.46>A dagger of the mind, a false creation,</A> <A NAME=2.1.47>Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?</A> <A NAME=2.1.48>I see thee yet, in form as palpable</A> <A NAME=2.1.49>As this which now I draw.</A> <A NAME=2.1.50>Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;</A> <A NAME=2.1.51>And such an instrument I was to use.</A> <A NAME=2.1.52>Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,</A> <A NAME=2.1.53>Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,</A> <A NAME=2.1.54>And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,</A> <A NAME=2.1.55>Which was not so before. There's no such thing:</A> <A NAME=2.1.56>It is the bloody business which informs</A> <A NAME=2.1.57>Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld</A> <A NAME=2.1.58>Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse</A> <A NAME=2.1.59>The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates</A> <A NAME=2.1.60>Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,</A> <A NAME=2.1.61>Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,</A> <A NAME=2.1.62>Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.</A> <A NAME=2.1.63>With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design</A> <A NAME=2.1.64>Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,</A> <A NAME=2.1.65>Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear</A> <A NAME=2.1.66>Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,</A> <A NAME=2.1.67>And take the present horror from the time,</A> <A NAME=2.1.68>Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:</A> <A NAME=2.1.69>Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.</A> A bell rings <A NAME=2.1.70>I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.</A> <A NAME=2.1.71>Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell</A> <A NAME=2.1.72>That summons thee to heaven or to hell.</A> Exit </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> <blockquote> Enter LADY MACBETH </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.1>That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;</A> <A NAME=2.2.2>What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.</A> <A NAME=2.2.3>Hark! Peace!</A> <A NAME=2.2.4>It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,</A> <A NAME=2.2.5>Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:</A> <A NAME=2.2.6>The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms</A> <A NAME=2.2.7>Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd</A> <A NAME=2.2.8>their possets,</A> <A NAME=2.2.9>That death and nature do contend about them,</A> <A NAME=2.2.10>Whether they live or die.</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.11>[Within] Who's there? what, ho!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.12>Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,</A> <A NAME=2.2.13>And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed</A> <A NAME=2.2.14>Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;</A> <A NAME=2.2.15>He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled</A> <A NAME=2.2.16>My father as he slept, I had done't.</A> Enter MACBETH <A NAME=2.2.17>My husband!</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4>MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.18>I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?</A> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5>LADY MACBETH</a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.19>I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.</A> <A NAME=2.2.20>Did not you speak?