ACT I. SCENE 1.

Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches.

1 Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain ?

2 Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, *When the battle's lost and won :

3 Witch. That will be ere th’set of sun.
1 Witch. Where the place ?
2 Witch. Upon the heath :
3 Witch. *There to meet with Macbeth.
1 Witch. I come, *Gray-malkin!

All. Paddock calls : Anon*.
*Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

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SCENE II.

Alarum within. Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM,

DONALBAIN, LENOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain.

King. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.

Mal.

Mal. This is the serjeant*,
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity :-Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil,
As thou didst leave it.

Cap. Doubtful it stood* ;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together,
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonel*
(Worthy to be a rebel ; for, to that,
The multiplying villanies of nature
Do swarm upon him) *from the western isles
Of Kernes and Gallow-glasses is supplied ;
* And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Shew'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
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Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoak'd with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion, carved out his passage,
'Till he fac'd the slave :
And ne'er shook hands*, nor bade farewel to him,
'Till *he unseam'd him from the nave to the chops,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.

King. Oh, valiant cousin! worthy gentleman !

Cap. * As whence the sun 'gins his reflexion, Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break* ; 40 So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, *Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No sooner justice had, with valour arm’d, Compellid these skipping Kernes to trust their heels But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,

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With furbish'd arms, and new supplies of men,
Began a fresh assault.

King. Dismay'd not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo ?

Cap. Yes;
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:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
*Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell :
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

King. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds; They smack of honour both :--Go, get him surgeons.

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Enter Rosse.*

Who comes here?

Mal. The worthy thane of Rosse.
Len. What a haste looks through his eyes ? So

should he look*,
That seems to speak things strange.

Rosse. God save the king !
King. Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane ?

Rosse. From Fife, great king,
Where the Norweyan banners *Aout the sky,
And fan our people cold,

70 Norway himself, with terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor 3

The

The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict :
'Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapt in proof,
*Confronted him *with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit: and to conclude,
The victory fell on us ;—

King. Great happiness!
Rosse. That now

80 Sweno, the Norway's king, craves composition; Nor would we deign him burial of his men, 'Till he disbursed, at * Saint Colmes' inch, Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

King. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest :--Go, pronounce his present'death, And with his former title greet Macbeth.

Rosse. I'll see done.
King. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

[Exeunt.

SCENE III.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sister, where thou ?

1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap, And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht : Give

me, quoth I. * Aroint thee, witch! the *rump-fed *rọnyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o’the Tyger:

But

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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.
2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind*.

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1 Witch. Thou art kind.
3 Witch. And I another.

1 Witch. I myself have all the other ;
*And the very points they blow,
All the quarters that they know
I’ the shipman's card*.
I will drain him dry as hay* :
Sleep shall, neither night nor day,
Hang upon his pent-house lid
*He shall live a man forbid :
Weary seven-nights, nine times nine,
Shall he dwindle*, peak, and pine :
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost,
Look what I have.

2 Witch. Shew me, shew me.

1 Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck’d, as homeward he did come. [Drum within.

3 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,
And thrice again, to make up
Peace !- the charm's wound up..

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