DONALBAIN, son to Duncan. MACBETH, general of the King's army. FLEANCE, son to Banquo. SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces. Young SIWARD, son to the Earl of Northumberland. SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth. Son to Macduff. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An old Man. LADY MACBETH. LADY MACDUff. Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. HECATE. Three Witches. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. The Ghost of Banquo, and other Apparitions. SCENE-IN SCOTLAND; EXCEPT IN THE END OF ACT IV., WHERE IT IS IN ENGLAND. 5 10 ACT I. Thunder and Lightning. SCENE I.-An open Place. Enter three Witches. 1 Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, 3 Witch. That will be ere the set of sun. 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, LENOX, with Dun. What bloody man is that? He can report, The newest state. 15 Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought 'Gainst my captivity: Hail, brave friend! As two spent swimmers, that do cling together 20 And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald (Worthy to be a rebel; for, to that, The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the western isles 25 And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiled. But all's too weak ; For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), 30 Like valour's minion, 35 Carved out his passage till he faced the slave; Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Compell'd these skipping kernes to trust their heels, With furbish'd arms, and new supplies of men, Dun. Dismay'd not this 45 Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sold. Yes: As sparrows, eagles; or the hare, the lion. As cannons overcharged with double cracks; 50 Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, I cannot tell : But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. Dun. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; 55 They smack of honour both.-Go, get him surgeons. (Exit Soldier, attended. Enter ROSSE. Who comes here? Mal. The worthy thane of Rosse. Len. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look that seems to speak things strange. Rosse. God save the king! 60 Dun. Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane? Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, Norway himself, with terrible numbers, 65 Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict: Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, 70 Curbing his lavish spirit: And, to conclude, The victory fell on us; Dun. Rosse. That now Great happiness! Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition; 75 Ten thousand dollars to our general use. 80 Dun. No more the thane of Cawdor shall deceive Rosse. I'll see it done. Dun. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sister, where thou? [Exeunt. 1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap, 85 And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd:" Give me," quoth I: "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: 90 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; 95 And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I'll drain him dry as hay: 2 Witch. Show me, show me. 1 Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, 110 Macbeth doth come. All. The weird sisters, hand in hand, Thus do go about, about; Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, 115 And thrice again, to make up nine :Peace!-the charm 's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO. [Drum within. Macb. So foul and fair a day I have not seen. 120 That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, Upon her skinny lips :-You should be women, 125 And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. Macb. Speak, if you can; What are you? 1 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis ! |