Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, Ang. We are sent 100 To give thee from our royal master thanks; Not pay thee. Ross. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: For it is thine. Ban. What, can the devil speak true? Mach. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrow'd robes? Ang. Who was the thane lives yet; bined ΣΤΟ Whether he was com With those of Norway, or did line the rebel With hidden help and vantage, or that with both Macb. [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind. [To Ross and Angus] Thanks for your pains. [To Ban.] Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me Ban. That trusted home 120 120. that trusted home, such trust, pushed to its logical con sequence. し ght yet enkindle you unto the crown, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.-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 : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, But what is not. Ban. Look, how our partner's rapt. 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, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Ban. Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. 130. soliciting, temptation. 140. my single state of man, the kingdom of myself. 130 140 Mach. Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains 150 The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king. Our free hearts each to other. Ban. Very gladly. Macb. Till then, enough. Come, friends. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Forres. The palace. Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALbain, Lennox, and Attendants. Dun. Is execution done on Cawdor? Those in commission yet return'd? Mal. Are not. My liege, Dun. There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. 13. He was a gentleman, etc. these words are spoken gives The entrance of Macbeth as them the effect of tragic irony. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, Ross, and ANGUS. O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now Was' heavy on me: thou art so far before To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, Macb. The service and the loyalty I owe, Are to your throne and state children and servants, thing Safe toward your love and honour. Dun. Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour And hold thee to my heart. Ban. The harvest is your own. Dun. There if I grow, My plenteous joys, Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine 34. Wanton, capricious from their very excess. L 20 30 40 On all deservers. From hence to Inverness, And bind us further to you. Macb. The rest is labour, which is not used for you: I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful Dun. My worthy Cawdor! Macb. [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed ; It is a banquet to me. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome : 50 It is a peerless kinsman. [Flourish. Exeunt. SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle. Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter. Lady M. 'They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane 45. harbinger, strictly a royal to make arrangements for his reofficial who preceded the king, ception. Cf. purveyor, i. 6. 22. VOL. IX 177 N |