I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums Have done to this. Macbeth. Lady Macbeth. If we should fail ? We fail. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, Macbeth. Bring forth men-children only ; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be receiv'd, When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two Lady Macbeth. Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar Macbeth. I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. ૩ 70 80 [Exeunt. SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's Castle. Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him. Banquo. How goes the night, boy? Fleance. The moon is down, I have not heard the clock. Banquo. And she goes down at twelve. Fleance. I take 't, 't is later, sir. heaven; Their candles are all out.-Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch. Who's there? Give me my sword.— ΙΟ Macbeth. A friend. Banquo. What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed : He hath been in unusual pleasure, and Sent forth great largess to your offices. This diamond he greets your wife withal, By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up Macbeth. Being unprepar'd, Our will became the servant to defect, Which else should free have wrought. Banquo. All's well. 20 I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: Macbeth. I think not of them : Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, Banquo. At your kind'st leisure. Macbeth. If you shall cleave to my consent, when 't is, It shall make honour for you. Banquo. So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep I shall be counsell'd. Macbeth. Good repose the while! Banquo. Thanks, sir: the like to you! 30 [Exeunt Banquo and Fleance. Macbeth. Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Is this a dagger which I see before me, [Exit Servant. The handle toward my hand?—Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. To feeling as to sight? or art thou but As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Thus to mine eyes.—Now o'er the one half world Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, Which now suits with it.Whiles I threat he lives: I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.— Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. 40 50 60 [A bell rings. [Exit. SCENE II. The Same. Enter LADY MACBETH. Lady Macbeth. That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.-Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it: The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores; I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. Macbeth. [Within.] Who's there? what, ho! Lady Macbeth. Alack, I am afraid they have awak'd, Enter MACBETH. 10 Macbeth. I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? Lady Macbeth. I heard the owl scream and the crickets Macbeth. This is a sorry sight. [Looking on his hands. 20 |