Sliver'd in the moon's eclipfe; All. Double, double toil and trouble; 2. Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Enter HECATE, and the other three Witches. Hec. O, well done! I commend your pains; And now about the cauldron fing, Enchanting all that you put in. SONG. Black fpirits and white, 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, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Even till deftruction ficken, answer me 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 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; 4 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. 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 Great Birnam wood to high Dunfinane hill Macb. That will never be : Who can impress the forest; bid the tree [defcends. Unfix his earth-bound root? fweet bodements! good! Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac'd Macbeth To time, and mortal custom.-Yet my heart Throbs to know one thing; Tell me, (if your art 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 :- [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. Mach. Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down! And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass, Come, fifters, cheer we up his fprights, 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! 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 Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the fword But no more fights!-Where are these gentlemen ? E 4 [Exeunt. SCENE |