Who comes here? Mal. Enter Rosse. The worthy thane of Rosse. Len. What a haste looks through his eyes! should he look, That seems to speak things strange. Rosse. So God save the king! Where the Norweyan banners flout' the sky, Norway himself, with terrible numbers, Dun. Great happiness! Rosse. That now Swenc, the Norways' king, craves composition; Nor would we deign him burial of his men, Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes' inch, Ten thousand dollars to our general use. Dun. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest :-Go, pronounce his death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. Rosse. I'll see it done. fear, Things that do sound so fair?-I'the name of truth, Dun. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath Are ye fantastical, or that indeed won. [Exeunt. Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner 1 Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sister, where thou? 1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap, And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd :Give me, quoth I: 4 Aroint thee, witch! the rump-fed ronyon' cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind. 1 Witch. Thou art kind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other; I will drain him dry as hay: 2 Witch. Show me, show me. 1 Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd, as homeward he did come. 3 Witch. A drum, a drum ; Macbeth doth come. [Drum within. And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, 1 Witch. Hail! 2 Wilch. Hail! 3 Witch. Hail! 1 Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. 2 Witch. Not so happy, yet much happier. 3 Witch. Thou shalt get kings, though thou 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; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king, Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whence You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting?-Speak, I charge [Witches vanish. Macb. And thane of Cawdor too; went it not so? Without my stir. Ban. To the self-same tune, and words. Who's Ban. New honours come upon him here ? Like our strange garments; cleave not to their mould, Enter Rosse and Angus. Rosse. The king hath happily receiv'd, Macbeth, Ang. Rosse. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, Ban. In borrow'd robes ? But with the aid of use. Macb. sure. Macb. Give me your favour: 9-my dull brain With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains The leaf to read them.-Let us toward the king.- Ban. Very gladly. Dun. Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not My liege, A deep repentance: nothing in his life But under heavy judgment bears that life Macb. Ban. In deepest consequence.- Mach. Dun. Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, and Angus. To overtake thee. 'Would thou hadst less deserv'd; Two truths are told, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.-I thank you, gentlemen.-Are to your throne and state, children, and servants; This supernatural soliciting4 Cannot be ill; cannot be good: If ill, My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, (3) Stimulate. (5) Temptation. jecture. (4) Encitement. Which do but what they should, by doing every thing My plenteous joys, (8) Time and opportunity. (10) Owned, possessed. (9) Pardon. (11) We cannot construe the disposition of the (7) The powers of action are oppressed by con- mind by the lineaments of the face, (12) Exuberant, Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter, Macb. The rest is labour, which is not us'd for you: Dun. On which I must fall down, or else o'erlcap, (Aside. 1 Aliend. So please you, it is true; our thanc is coming: One of my fellows had the speed of him; That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, Enter Macbeth. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! 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. [Er. Dun. True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant; And in his commendations I am fed ; It is a banquet to me. Let us after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: It is a peerless kinsman. [Flourish. Exeunt. SCENE V.-Inverness. A room in Macbeth's castle. Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter. Lady M. They met me in the day of success; Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! and I have learned by the perfectest report, they Thy letters have transported me beyond have more in them than mortal knowledge. When This ignorant present, and I feel now I burned in desire to question them further, they The future in the instant. made themselves-air, into which they vanished. Macb. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came Duncan comes here to-night." missives from the king, who all-hailed me, Thane of Cawdor; by which tille, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with, Hail, king that shalt be! This Shall sun that morrow see! have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men partner of greatness; that thou mightest not lose May read strange matters:-To beguile the time, the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of wha! Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent and farewell. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be My dearest love, flower, O, never, But be the serpent under it. He that's coming Only look up clear; The illness should attend it. What thou would'st great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do, Enter an Attendant. SCENE VI.-The same. [Exeunt. Before the castle. Dim. This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, Attend. The king comes here to-night. Is not thy master with him? who, were't so, (9) Knife anciently meant a sword or dagger. (10) i, e. Beyond the present time, which is, according to the process of nature, ignorant of the future. (11) Look, countenance. (12) Convenient corner, |