from her breast as from a shrine; she was tragedy personified. In coming on in the sleeping scene, her eyes were open, but their sense was shut. She was like a person bewildered and unconscious of what she did. Her lips moved involuntarily: all her gestures were involuntary and mechanical. She glided on and off the stage like an apparition. To have seen her in that character was an event in every one's life not to be forgotten."-HAZLITT, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.

DUNCAN

"The dramatic beauty of the character of Duncan, which excites the respect and pity even of his murderers, has been often pointed out. It forms a picture of itself. An instance of the author's power of giving a striking effect to a common reflection, by the manner of introducing it, occurs in a speech of Duncan, complaining of his having been deceived in his opinion of the Thane of Cawdor, at the very moment that he is expressing the most unbounded confidence in the loyalty and services of Macbeth.

"There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman, on whom I built

An absolute trust.

O worthiest cousin, [addressing himself to Macbeth]
The sin of my ingratitude even now

Was heavy upon me,' etc."

— HAZLITT, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

MACBETH, General of the King's Army, afterwards King. BANQUO, General of the King's Army.

SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English
Forces.

Young SIWARD, son to the Earl of Northumberland.
Son to Macduff.

SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth when King.
An English Doctor; a Scotch Doctor.

A Soldier; a Porter; an old Man.

LADY MACBETH, afterwards Queen.

LADY MACDuff.

A Gentlewoman, attending on Lady Macbeth when Queen. HECATE.

Three Witches.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers.

The Ghost of Banquo, and other Apparitions.

SCENE-In the end of Act IV. in ENGLAND; through the rest of the Play in SCOTLAND.

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MACBETH

ACT I

SCENE I

An open Place. Thunder and Lightning

Enter three Witches

1 Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done. When the battle's lost and won.

3 Witch. That will be ere the set of sun.

1 Witch. Where the place?

2 Witch.

Upon the heath:

3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth.

1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin!

2 Witch. Paddock calls:

:-anon.

All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.

[Witches vanish.

SCENE II

A Camp near Forres. Alarum within

Enter KING DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, and LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier

Dun. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt

The newest state.

Mal.

This is the sergeant,

Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought
'Gainst my captivity. — Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.

Sold.

Doubtful it stood;

As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald

10 (Worthy to be a rebel; for, to that,

The multiplying villanies of nature

Do swarm upon him) from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's trull: but all's too weak:

For brave Macbeth, (well he deserves that name,)