And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I will drain him dry as hay: Sec. Witch. Show me, show me. First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd as homeward he did come. 20 Ban. Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not: If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate. First Witch. Hail! Sec. Witch. Hail! Third Witch. Hail! 59 Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO. Macb. So foul and fair a day I have not seen. Ban. How far is 't call'd to Forres? What are these 40 So wither'd, and so wild in their attire, By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king Ban. The earth hath bubbles as the water has, And these are of them: whither are they vanish'd? 80 That man may question? You seem to under- By each at once her choppy finger laying Mach. Speak, if you can: what are you? Sec. Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! 1 The shipman's card, ie. the card contained in the compass, on which the points are marked. 2 Forbid, i.e. under a curse. Macb. Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted As breath into the wind.-Would they had stay'd! 3 Peak, grow thin. + Posters, quick travellers. 5 Fantastical, imaginary. Owe, own, possess. Ross. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine. Ban. [Aside] What, can the devil speak true? Macb. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrowed robes? Ang. Who was the thane lives yet; But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin'd 111 Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. [Aside] 130 Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.-[To Ross and Angus] I thank you, gentlemen. [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated3 heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears* Are less than horrible imaginings: With those of Norway, or did line1 the rebel With hidden help and vantage, or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; 1 Line, support. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantas tical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Ban. [To Ross and Angus] Look, how our Macb. [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. Macb. [Aside] Come what come may, 2 Trusted home, ie. trusted to the utmost. 3 Seated, i.e. firmly fixed. 4 Fears, i.e. objects of fear. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Ban. [Advancing] Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. Macb. Give me your favour:2 my dull brain was wrought3 With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains 150 That the proportions both of thanks and pay ment 19 Might have been mine! only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay. Macb. The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties; and our duties Are to your throne and state children and servants; Which do but what they should by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. 26 Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour The harvest is your own. There if I grow, My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.-Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are the nearest, know, We will establish our estate upon Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter 40 The Prince of Cumberland: which honour must Macb. The rest is labour, which is not us'd for you: I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful Dun. 48 Are register'd where every day I turn The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Ban. [Aside to Macbeth] Very gladly. Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONAL- Dun. Is execution done on Cawdor? Are Those in commission yet return'd? Dun. There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, Ross, and ANGUS. O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now 1 Stay upon, await. 2 Give me your favour, excuse me. 2 Wrought, agitated. 4 Ow'd, owned, possessed. On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant; 5 The proportion, i.e. the due proportion. And in his commendations I am fed; SCENE V. Inverness. A room in Macbeth's castle. 55 have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burn'd in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanish'd. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hail'd me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver3 thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might'st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promis'd thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell." LADY MACBETH, reading a letter. Lady M. "They met me in the day of success; and I have learn'd by the perfect'st report,1 they 3 Deliver, report. 20 The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou 'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries "Thus thou must do, if thou have it;" 1 The perfect'st report, i.e. the best intelligence. 2 Missives, messengers. 4 Illness, evil. 1 |
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