Fleance, Son to Banquo. Siward, General of the English Forces. Young Siward, his Son. Seyton, an officer attending on Macbeth.. Dottor. Lady Macbeth. Gentlewomen attending on Lady Macbeth. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers and Attendants. The Ghoft of Banquo, and several other Apparitions. SCENE, in the End of the fourth A&t, lies in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Caftle. MACBETH. G MA ACBE ETH. A C T I. SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. W HEN fhall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, When the Battle's loft and won. 3 Witch. That will be ere Set of Sun. I Witch. Where the place? 2 Witch. Upon the heath. 3 Witch. There I go to meet Macbeth. I Witch. I come, I come, Grimalkin. 2 Witch. Padocke calls- -anon! All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. [They rife from the stage and fly away. SCENE II. Changes to the Palace at Foris. Enter King, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lenox, with atten King. dants, meeting a bleeding Captain. WHAT bloody man is that? he can re port, As feemeth by his plight, of the revolt The neweft ftate. When the Battles loft and won.] i. e. the Battle, in which Macbeth was then engag'd Mal. This is the Serjeant, Who like a good and hardy foldier fought Cap. Doubtful long it flood: As two spent fwimmers that do cling together, Who ne'er fhook hands nor bid farewel to him, King. Oh, valiant Coufin! worthy Gentleman! Cap. As whence the fun 'gins his reflection, Shipwrecking ftorms and direful thunders break; So from that Spring, whence Comfort seem'd to come, Discomfit well'd. Mark, King of Scotland, mark ; No fooner juftice had, with valour arm'd, Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heels; But the Norweyan lord, furveying 'vantage, With furbisht arms and new fupplies of men Began a fresh affault. King. Difmay'd not this Our Captains, Macbeth and Banquo? on his damned quarry-] We should read quarrel. + unfeam'd him from the nave to th' chops,] Shakespear certainly wrote, he unfeam'd him from the nape to th' Chops, e. cut his Skull in two; which might be done by a Highlander's sword. Cap. Cap. Yes, * As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks, I cannot tell But I am faint, my gafhes cry for help. King. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds: They fmack of honour both. Go, get him furgeons. Enter Roffe and Angus.. But who comes here? Mal. The worthy Thane of Roffe. Len. What hafte looks through his eyes? So fhould he look, that feems to speak things ftrange. King. Whence cam'ft thou, worthy Thane? Where the Norweyan Banners flout the sky, Norway, himfelf with numbers terrible, The Thane of Cawdor, 'gan a difmal conflict. Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, The victory fell on us. King. Great happiness ! : [fition: Roffe. Now Sweno, Norway's King, craves compoNor would we deign him burial of his men, 'Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes-kill-isle Ten thousand dollars, to our gen'ral use. King. No more that Thane of Cawdor fhall deceive * with double cracks,] Double is here used for great, and not for two. Our Our bofom-int'reft. Go, pronounce his death; King. What he hath loft, noble Macbeth hath won. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. HERE haft thou been, fifter? 2 Witch WHE Witch. Killing fwine. 2 3 Witch. Sifter, where thou? [Exeunt. 1 Witch. A failor's wife had chefnuts in her lap, And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht. me, quoth I. Give Aroint thee, witch!the rump-fed ronyon cries. But in a fieve I'll thither fail, 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other... I will drain him dry as hay, Weary fev'n-nights, nine times nine, Look, what I have. 2 Witch. Shew me, fhew me. I- Witch. |