Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. First Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch. When the hurly-burly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won. D Third Witch. That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch. Where the place? Second Witch. Upon the heath. Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant. Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Malcolm. Sergeant. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together 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 ΤΟ Till he fac'd the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Duncan. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, Duncan. Dismay'd not this Yes; Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sergeant. As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks; So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: I cannot tell— But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. Duncan. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds ; They smack of honour both.—Go get him surgeons. 20 30 40 [Exit Sergeant, attended. Who comes here? Enter Ross. Malcolm. The worthy thane of Ross. Lennox. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look That seems to speak things strange. 52 Ross. God save the king! Duncan. Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane? From Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky Assisted by that most disloyal traitor, The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Duncan. Great happiness! That now Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition; Ten thousand dollars to our general use. Duncan. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. Ross. I'll see it done. Duncan. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. 50 60 [Exeunt. SCENE III. A Heath. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. First Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? Second Witch. Killing swine. Third Witch. Sister, where thou? First Witch. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd. Give me,' quoth I: 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. Second Witch. I'll give thee a wind. Third Witch. And I another. First Witch. I myself have all the other, All the quarters that they know I'll drain him dry as hay: Look what I have. 10 20 Second Witch. Show me, show me. First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wrack'd as homeward he did come. Third Witch. A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. All. The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, [Drum within. 30 |