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Macbeth.
Persons Represented
And say which grain will grow, and which will not, [Witches vanish.]
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Banquo
Your favors nor your hate.
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
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And these are of them:—whither are they vanish’d? And pour’d them down before him.
Macbeth Angus
Into the air; and what seem’d corporal melted We are sent
As breath into the wind.—Would they had stay’d! To give thee, from our royal master, thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Banquo
Not pay thee.
Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root Ross
That takes the reason prisoner? And, for an earnest of a greater honor,
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor:
Macbeth
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane,
Your children shall be kings.
For it is thine.
Banquo
Banquo
You shall be king.
What, can the devil speak true?
Macbeth
Macbeth
And Thane of Cawdor too; went it not so?
The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
Banquo In borrow’d robes?
To the selfsame tune and words. Who’s here?
Angus
[Enter Ross and Angus.] Who was the Thane lives yet;
Ross But under heavy judgement bears that life
The king hath happily receiv’d, Macbeth, Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’d
The news of thy success: and when he reads With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
His wonders and his praises do contend He labour’d in his country’s wreck, I know not;
Which should be thine or his: silenc’d with that, But treasons capital, confess’d and proved,
In viewing o’er the rest o’ the self-same day, Have overthrown him.
He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, Macbeth
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Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, [Aside.] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
Strange images of death. As thick as hail The greatest is behind.—Thanks for your pains.—
Came post with post; and every one did bear Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defense,
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Scene V.
Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle. [Enter an Attendant.]
[Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter.] What is your tidings?
Attendant
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Upon the sightless couriers of the air, And live a coward in thine own esteem;
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”
That tears shall drown the wind.—I have no spur Like the poor cat i’ the adage?
To prick the sides of my intent, but only Macbeth
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Fleance Macbeth
I take’t, ’tis later, sir. I think not of them:
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
Banquo We would spend it in some words upon that business,
Hold, take my sword.—There’s husbandry in heaven; If you would grant the time.
Their candles are all out:—take thee that too.—
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, Banquo
And yet I would not sleep:—merciful powers, At your kind’st leisure.
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Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Alack! I am afraid they have awak’d,
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
And ’tis not done: the attempt, and not the deed,
Confounds us.—Hark!—I laid their daggers ready; Macbeth
He could not miss ‘em.—Had he not resembled There’s one did laugh in’s sleep, and one cried, “Murder!”
My father as he slept, I had done’t.—My husband! That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:
But they did say their prayers, and address’d them
[Re-enter Macbeth.]
Again to sleep.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
I have done the deed.—Didst thou not hear a noise?
There are two lodg’d together.
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
One cried, “God bless us!” and, “Amen,” the other;
Did not you speak?
As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.
Macbeth Listening their fear, I could not say “Amen,”
When? When they did say, “God bless us.”
Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth
Now. Consider it not so deeply.
Macbeth Macbeth
As I descended? But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?
Lady Macbeth I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
Ay. Stuck in my throat.
For it must seem their guilt. should have old turning the key. [Knocking.] Knock, knock, knock.
[Exit. Knocking within.] Who’s there, i’ the name of Belzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged
himself on the expectation of plenty: come in time; have napkins
Macbeth enow about you; here you’ll sweat for’t.—[Knocking.] Knock, knock!
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Who’s there, in the other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator, Macduff
that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who com- I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
mitted treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to
Porter
heaven: O, come in, equivocator. [Knocking.] Knock, knock, knock!
That it did, sir, i’ the very throat o’ me; but I requited him for his lie;
Who’s there? Faith, here’s an English tailor come hither, for steal-
and, I think, being too strong for him, though he took up my legs
ing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your
sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him.
goose.— [Knocking.] Knock, knock: never at quiet! What are
you?—But this place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no fur- Macduff
ther: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go Is thy master stirring?—
the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. [Knocking.] Anon, Our knocking has awak’d him; here he comes.
anon! I pray you, remember the porter. [Enter Macbeth.]
[Opens the gate.] Lennox
[Enter Macduff and Lennox.] Good morrow, noble sir!
Macduff Macbeth
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed, Good morrow, both!
That you do lie so late? Macduff
Porter Is the king stirring, worthy thane?
Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is Macbeth
a great provoker of three things. Not yet.
Macduff Macduff
What three things does drink especially provoke? He did command me to call timely on him:
Porter I have almost slipp’d the hour.
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes Macbeth
and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the per- I’ll bring you to him.
formance: 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 Macduff
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takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him I know this is a joyful trouble to you;
stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him in a But yet ’tis one.
sleep, and giving him the lie, leaves him. Macbeth
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The labour we delight in physics pain. Macbeth, Lennox
This is the door. What’s the matter?
Macduff Macduff
I’ll make so bold to call. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
For ’tis my limited service. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
[Exit Macduff.] The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ the building.
Lennox
Goes the king hence to-day? Macbeth
What is’t you say? the life?
Macbeth
He does: he did appoint so. Lennox
Mean you his majesty?
Lennox
The night has been unruly: where we lay, Macduff
Our chimneys were blown down: and, as they say, Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
Lamentings heard i’ the air, strange screams of death; With a new Gorgon:—do not bid me speak;
And prophesying, with accents terrible, See, and then speak yourselves.
Of dire combustion and confus’d events, [Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.]
New hatch’d to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Awake, awake!—
Clamour’d the live-long night; some say the earth
Ring the alarum bell:—murder and treason!
Was feverous, and did shake.
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
Macbeth Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
’Twas a rough night. And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom’s image! Malcolm! Banquo!
Lennox
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites
My young remembrance cannot parallel
To countenance this horror!
A fellow to it.
[Alarum-bell rings.]
[Re-enter Macduff.]
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Was it not yesterday we spoke together? Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept
All by the name of dogs: the valu’d file
First murderer Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
It was, so please your highness. The house-keeper, the hunter, every one
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According to the gift which bounteous nature With barefac’d power sweep him from my sight,
Hath in him clos’d; whereby he does receive And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
Particular addition, from the bill For certain friends that are both his and mine,
That writes them all alike: and so of men. Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
Now, if you have a station in the file, Who I myself struck down: and thence it is
Not i’ the worst rank of manhood, say it; That I to your assistance do make love;
And I will put that business in your bosoms, Masking the business from the common eye
Whose execution takes your enemy off; For sundry weighty reasons.
Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
Second murderer
Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
We shall, my lord,
Which in his death were perfect.
Perform what you command us.
Second murderer
First murderer
I am one, my liege,
Though our lives—
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incens’d that I am reckless what Macbeth
I do to spite the world. Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most,
I will advise you where to plant yourselves;
First murderer
Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ the time,
And I another,
The moment on’t; for’t must be done to-night
So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune,
And something from the palace; always thought
That I would set my life on any chance,
That I require a clearness; and with him,—
To mend it or be rid on’t.
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work,—
Macbeth Fleance his son, that keeps him company,
Both of you Whose absence is no less material to me
Know Banquo was your enemy. Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate
Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:
Both murderers
I’ll come to you anon.
True, my lord.
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Both murderers.
Macbeth
We are resolv’d, my lord.
So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,
That every minute of his being thrusts Macbeth
Against my near’st of life; and though I could I’ll call upon you straight: abide within.
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How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Of sorriest fancies your companions making; Disguising what they are.
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
Lady Macbeth
With them they think on? Things without all remedy
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You must leave this.
Macbeth Scene III.
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the
Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Palace.
Lady Macbeth [Enter three Murderers.]
But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne. First murderer
Macbeth But who did bid thee join with us?
There’s comfort yet; they are assailable; Third Murderer
Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown Macbeth.
His cloister’d flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons,
Second murderer
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done
Our offices and what we have to do
A deed of dreadful note.
To the direction just.
Lady Macbeth
First murderer
What’s to be done?
Then stand with us.
Macbeth The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Now spurs the lated traveller apace,
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; The subject of our watch.
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Third Murderer
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Hark! I hear horses.
Which keeps me pale!—Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood: Banquo
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; [Within.] Give us a light there, ho!
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.— Second murderer
Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still; Then ’tis he; the rest
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Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill: That are within the note of expectation
So, pr’ythee, go with me. Already are i’ the court.
[Exeunt.]
First murderer
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His horses go about. Second murderer
We have lost best half of our affair.
Third Murderer
Almost a mile; but he does usually, First murderer
So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Well, let’s away, and say how much is done.
Make it their walk. [Exeunt.]
--
Second murderer
A light, a light! Scene IV.
Third Murderer The same. A Room of state in the
’Tis he. Palace. A banquet prepared.
First murderer [Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and
Stand to’t. Attendants.]
[Enter Banquo, and Fleance with a torch.] Macbeth
You know your own degrees: sit down. At first
Banquo
And last the hearty welcome.
It will be rain to-night.
Lords
First murderer
Thanks to your majesty.
Let it come down.
[Assaults Banquo.] Macbeth
Ourself will mingle with society,
Banquo And play the humble host.
O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Our hostess keeps her state; but, in best time,
Thou mayst revenge.—O slave! We will require her welcome.
[Dies. Fleance escapes.]
Lady Macbeth
Third Murderer Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;
Who did strike out the light? For my heart speaks they are welcome.
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Was’t not the way? See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks.—
Third Murderer Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst:
There’s but one down: the son is fled. [Enter first Murderer to the door.]
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Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled
The table round.—There’s blood upon thy face. Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
No teeth for the present.—Get thee gone; to-morrow
Murderer
We’ll hear, ourselves, again.
’Tis Banquo’s then.
[Exit Murderer.]
Macbeth
’Tis better thee without than he within. Lady Macbeth
Is he despatch’d? My royal lord,
You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold
Murderer
That is not often vouch’d, while ’tis a-making,
My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.
’Tis given with welcome; to feed were best at home;
Macbeth From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats; yet he’s good Meeting were bare without it.
That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,
Macbeth
Thou art the nonpareil.
Sweet remembrancer!—
Murderer Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
Most royal sir, And health on both!
Fleance is ‘scap’d.
Lennox
Macbeth May’t please your highness sit.
Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect; [The Ghost of Banquo rises, and sits in Macbeth’s place.]
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock;
As broad and general as the casing air: Macbeth
But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in Here had we now our country’s honor roof ’d,
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe? Were the grac’d person of our Banquo present;
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
Murderer Than pity for mischance!
Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head; Ross
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Macbeth Macbeth
Which of you have done this? Pr’ythee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you?—
Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.—
Lords
If charnel houses and our graves must send
What, my good lord?
Those that we bury back, our monuments
Macbeth Shall be the maws of kites.
Thou canst not say I did it: never shake [Ghost disappears.]
Thy gory locks at me.
Lady Macbeth
Ross What, quite unmann’d in folly?
Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth If I stand here, I saw him.
Sit, worthy friends:—my lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat; Lady Macbeth
The fit is momentary; upon a thought Fie, for shame!
He will again be well: if much you note him, Macbeth
You shall offend him, and extend his passion: Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,
Feed, and regard him not.—Are you a man? Ere humane statute purg’d the gentle weal;
Macbeth Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
Too terrible for the ear: the time has been,
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Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. Question enrages him: at once, good-night:—
Stand not upon the order of your going,
Macbeth
But go at once.
What man dare, I dare:
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Lennox Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;
Good-night; and better health Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.
Attend his majesty!
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
A kind good-night to all!
Macbeth
[Exeunt all Lords and Atendants.] Come, we’ll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
Macbeth Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:—
It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: We are yet but young in deed.
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; [Exeunt.]
Augurs, and understood relations, have
By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth Scene V.
The secret’st man of blood.—What is the night? The heath.
Lady Macbeth [Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate.]
Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
First Witch
Macbeth Why, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.
How say’st thou, that Macduff denies his person Hecate
At our great bidding?
Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
Lady Macbeth Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
Did you send to him, sir? To trade and traffic with Macbeth
In riddles and affairs of death;
Macbeth
And I, the mistress of your charms,
I hear it by the way; but I will send:
The close contriver of all harms,
There’s not a one of them but in his house
Was never call’d to bear my part,
I keep a servant fee’d. I will to-morrow,
Or show the glory of our art?
(And betimes I will) to the weird sisters:
And, which is worse, all you have done
More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,
Hath been but for a wayward son,
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ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.
Second Witch
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Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Though bladed corn be lodg’d, and trees blown down;
Then the charm is firm and good. Though castles topple on their warders’ heads;
[Enter Hecate.] Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Hecate Of nature’s germins tumble all together,
O, well done! I commend your pains; Even till destruction sicken,—answer me
And everyone shall share i’ the gains. To what I ask you.
And now about the cauldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring, First Witch
Enchanting all that you put in. Speak.
Macbeth ALL.
I conjure you, by that which you profess,— Come, high or low;
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Howe’er you come to know it,—answer me: Thyself and office deftly show!
Though you untie the winds, and let them fight [Thunder. An Apparition of an armed Head rises.]
Against the churches; though the yesty waves Macbeth
Confound and swallow navigation up;
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Tell me, thou unknown power,— That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
And sleep in spite of thunder.—What is this,
First Witch-..
He knows thy thought: [Thunder. An Apparition of a Child crowned, with a tree in his
Hear his speech, but say thou naught. hand, rises.]
Fife. A Room in Macduff ’s Castle. And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
[Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.] From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Lady Macduff Each way and move.—I take my leave of you:
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Shall not be long but I’ll be here again: Son
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward Nay, how will you do for a husband?
To what they were before.—My pretty cousin,
Lady Macduff
Blessing upon you!
Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.
Lady Macduff
Son
Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless.
Then you’ll buy ‘em to sell again.
Ross
Lady Macduff
I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,
Thou speak’st with all thy wit; and yet, i’ faith,
It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:
With wit enough for thee.
I take my leave at once.
Son
[Exit.]
Was my father a traitor, mother?
Lady Macduff
Lady Macduff
Sirrah, your father’s dead;
Ay, that he was.
And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son
Son
What is a traitor?
As birds do, mother.
Lady Macduff
Lady Macduff
Why, one that swears and lies.
What, with worms and flies?
Son
Son
And be all traitors that do so?
With what I get, I mean; and so do they.
Lady Macduff
Lady Macduff
Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.
Poor bird! thou’dst never fear the net nor lime,
The pit-fall nor the gin. Son
And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?
Son
Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for. Lady Macduff
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Lady Macduff
Whither should I fly? England. Before the King’s Palace.
I have done no harm. But I remember now [Enter Malcolm and Macduff.]
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm
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Malcolm Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Let us seek out some desolate shade and there Yet grace must still look so.
Weep our sad bosoms empty.
Macduff
Macduff I have lost my hopes.
Let us rather
Malcolm
Hold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men,
Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.
Bestride our down-fall’n birthdom: each new morn
Why in that rawness left you wife and child,—
New widows howl; new orphans cry; new sorrows
Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,—
Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
Without leave-taking?—I pray you,
As if it felt with Scotland, and yell’d out
Let not my jealousies be your dishonors,
Like syllable of dolour.
But mine own safeties:—you may be rightly just,
Malcolm Whatever I shall think.
What I believe, I’ll wail;
Macduff
What know, believe; and what I can redress,
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.
For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs,
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
The title is affeer’d.—Fare thee well, lord:
Was once thought honest: you have loved him well;
I would not be the villain that thou think’st
He hath not touch’d you yet. I am young; but something
For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp
You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom
And the rich East to boot.
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
To appease an angry god. Malcolm
Be not offended:
Macduff
I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
I am not treacherous.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
Malcolm It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
But Macbeth is. Is added to her wounds. I think, withal,
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A good and virtuous nature may recoil There would be hands uplifted in my right;
In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon; And here, from gracious England, have I offer
That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose; Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: When I shall tread upon the tyrant’s head,
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Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country In nature is a tyranny; it hath been
Shall have more vices than it had before; The untimely emptying of the happy throne,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever, And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
By him that shall succeed. To take upon you what is yours: you may
Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,
Macduff
And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.
What should he be?
We have willing dames enough; there cannot be
Malcolm That vulture in you, to devour so many
It is myself I mean: in whom I know As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
All the particulars of vice so grafted Finding it so inclin’d.
That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth
Malcolm
Will seem as pure as snow; and the poor state
With this there grows,
Esteem him as a lamb, being compar’d
In my most ill-compos’d affection, such
With my confineless harms.
A stanchless avarice, that, were I king,
Macduff I should cut off the nobles for their lands;
Not in the legions Desire his jewels, and this other’s house:
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d And my more-having would be as a sauce
In evils to top Macbeth. To make me hunger more; that I should forge
Malcolm Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
I grant him bloody, Destroying them for wealth.
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Macduff
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin This avarice
That has a name: but there’s no bottom, none, Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root
In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters, Than summer-seeming lust; and it hath been
Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;
The cistern of my lust; and my desire Scotland hath foysons to fill up your will,
All continent impediments would o’erbear, Of your mere own: all these are portable,
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That did oppose my will: better Macbeth With other graces weigh’d.
Than such an one to reign.
Malcolm
Macduff But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
Boundless intemperance
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As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Child of integrity, hath from my soul
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Wiped the black scruples, reconcil’d my thoughts
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
I have no relish of them; but abound By many of these trains hath sought to win me
In the division of each several crime, Into his power; and modest wisdom plucks me
Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should From over-credulous haste: but God above
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Deal between thee and me! for even now
Uproar the universal peace, confound I put myself to thy direction, and
All unity on earth. Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure
The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
Macduff
For strangers to my nature. I am yet
O Scotland, Scotland!
Unknown to woman; never was forsworn;
Malcolm Scarcely have coveted what was mine own;
If such a one be fit to govern, speak: At no time broke my faith; would not betray
I am as I have spoken. The devil to his fellow; and delight
Macduff No less in truth than life: my first false speaking
Fit to govern! Was this upon myself:—what I am truly,
No, not to live!—O nation miserable, Is thine and my poor country’s to command:
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d, Whither, indeed, before thy here-approach,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men
Since that the truest issue of thy throne Already at a point, was setting forth:
By his own interdiction stands accurs’d Now we’ll together; and the chance of goodness
And does blaspheme his breed?—Thy royal father Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?
Was a most sainted king; the queen that bore thee, Macduff
Oftener upon her knees than on her feet, Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
Died every day she lived. Fare-thee-well! ’Tis hard to reconcile.
These evils thou repeat’st upon thyself
[Enter a Doctor.]
Have banish’d me from Scotland.—O my breast,
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Gentlewoman Hark, she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to
That, sir, which I will not report after her. satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
Servant Seyton
There is ten thousand— What’s your gracious pleasure?
Macbeth Macbeth
Geese, villain? What news more?
Servant Seyton
Soldiers, sir. All is confirm’d, my lord, which was reported.
Macbeth Macbeth
Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d.
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Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt: Macduff
He only liv’d but till he was a man; Hail, king, for so thou art: behold, where stands
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm’d The usurper’s cursed head: the time is free:
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I see thee compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine,—
Hail, King of Scotland!
ALL.
Hail, King of Scotland!
[Flourish.]
Malcolm
We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour nam’d. What’s more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,—
As calling home our exil’d friends abroad,
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen,—
Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life;—this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time, and place:
So, thanks to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown’d at Scone.
[Flourish. Exeunt.]
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