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Sliver'd in the moon's eclipfe;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-ftrangled babe,
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

All. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.

2. Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Enter HECATE, and the other three Witches.

Hec. O, well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share i' the gains.

And now about the cauldron fing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,

Enchanting all that you put in.

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Black fpirits and white,
Red fpirits and grey;
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.

2. Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes :—— Open, locks, whoever knocks.

Enter MACBETH.

[Mufick.

Mach. How now, you fecret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do?

All.

A deed without a name.

Macb. I conjure you, by that which you profefs,

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(Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me :

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yefty waves

Confound and swallow navigation up;

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down;
Though caftles topple on their warders' heads;
Though palaces, and pyramids, do flope

Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germins tumble all together,

Even till deftruction ficken, answer me
To what I ask you.

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1. Witch. Say, if thou'dft rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters'?

Macb.

Call them, let me fee them.

1. Witch. Pour in fow's blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow; greafe, that's fweaten

From the murderer's gibbet, throw

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Thunder. An Apparition of an armed head rises. ·

Macb. Tell me, thou unknown power,

1. Witch.

He knows thy thought;

Hear his fpeech, but fay thou nought.

App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife.-Difmifs me :-Enough.

[defcends.

Macb. What-e'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou haft harp'd my fear aright :-But one word more;

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1. Witch.

1. Witch. He will not be commanded: Here's another, More potent than the first.

App.

Thunder. An Apparition of a bloody child rifes.

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Macb. Had I three ears, I'd hear thee.

App. Be bloody, bold, and resolute : laugh to fcorn

The power of man;

for none of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth.

[defcends.

Macb. Then live, Macduff; What need I fear of thee?

But yet I'll make affurance double fure,

And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;

That I may tell pale-hearted fear, it lies,

And sleep in spite of thunder.-What is this,

Thunder. An Apparition of a child crowned, with a tree in his hand, rifes.

That rifes like the iffue of a king;

And wears upon his baby brow the round

And top of fovereignty?

All.

Liften, but speak not.

App. Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where confpirers are:
Macbeth fhall never vanquish'd be, until

Great Birnam wood to high Dunfinane hill
Shall come against him.

Macb.

That will never be :

Who can impress the forest; bid the tree

[defcends.

Unfix his earth-bound root? fweet bodements! good!
Rebellious head, rife never, till the wood

Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac'd Macbeth
Shall live the leafe of nature, pay his breath

To time, and mortal custom.-Yet my heart

Throbs to know one thing; Tell me, (if your art
Can tell fo much,) fhall Banquo's iffue ever

Reign in this kingdom?

All.

Seek to know no more.

Macb. I will be fatisfied: deny me this,

And an eternal curfe fall on you! Let me know :-
Why finks that cauldron ? and what noise is this?

[Hautboys. 1. Witch. Show! 2. Witch. Show! 3. Witch. Show! All. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like fhadows, fo depart.

Eight kings appear, and pass over the flage in order; the laft, with a glass in his band: Banquo following.

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Mach. Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down!
Thy crown does fear mine eye-balls :-And thy hair,
Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first :-
A third is like the former :-Filthy hags!
Why do you show me this ?-A fourth ?-Start, eyes!
What! will the line ftretch out to the crack of doom?
Another yet?-A feventh ?-I'll fee no more :-

And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass,
Which shows me many more; and fome I fee,
That twofold balls and treble fceptres carry:
Horrible fight!-Ay, now, I fee, 'tis true;
For the blood-bolter'd Banquo fmiles upon me,
And points at them for his.-What, is this fo?
I. Witch. Ay, fir, all this is fo :-But why
Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?-

Come, fifters, cheer we up his fprights,
And show the best of our delights;
I'll charm the air to give a found,
While you perform your antique round:

That

That this great king may kindly fay,

Our duties did his welcome pay.

[Mufick. The Witches dance, and vanish.

Macb. Where are they? Gone?-Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accurfed in the calendar!

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Macb. Infected be the air whereon they ride; And damn'd, all thofe that truft them!-I did hear The galloping of horse: Who was't came by?

Len. 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England.

Macb.

Jen. Ay, my good lord.

Fled to England?

Macb. Time, thou anticipat'ft my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,

Unless the deed go with it: From this moment,

The very firftlings of my heart shall be

The firftlings of my hand. And even now

To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done
The castle of Macduff I will surprise;

Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the fword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate fouls
That trace his line. No boafting like a fool;
This deed I'll do, before this purpose cool:

But no more fights!-Where are these gentlemen ?
Come, bring me where they are,

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[Exeunt.

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