SONG. [Within.] "Come away, come away," &c. Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. [Exit. [Exeunt. 1 Witch. Come, let's make haste: she 'll soon be back again. SCENE VI.-Forres. A Room in the Palace. Enter LENOX, and another Lord. Len. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, Which can interpret farther: only, I say, Things have been strangely borne: The gracious Was pitied of Macbeth:-marry, he was dead :— That were the slaves of drink, and thralls of sleep : (As, an 't please heaven, he shall not,) they should find Macduff lives in disgrace: Sir, can you tell Lord. Of the most pious Edward with such grace, Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights; Len. Sent he to Macduff? Lord. He did: and with an absolute, "Sir, not I," The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums; as who should say, "You'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer." Len. And that well might Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel Fly to the court of England, and unfold His message ere he come; that a swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country Under a hand accurs'd! Lord. I'll send my prayers with him! [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I.-A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. In the poison'd entrails throw. Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse; Make the gruel thick and slab; Enter HECATE, and the other three Witches. And now about the caldron sing, [Music and a Song, Black spirits,' &c.b 2 Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes :Open, locks, whoever knocks. Enter MACBETH. Macb. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags, What is 't you do? All. A deed without a name. Macb. I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me: a Chaudron-entrails. This is the original stage direction. The modern editors have inserted four lines of a song, which they find in Middleton's Witch,' but without any authority for their introduction here, beyond the stage-direction. In the Witch scene of Act In. we have mention of a song "Come away." These words are also in Middleton. If the song of the fourth act should be inserted in the text, why not that of the third act? Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure 1 Witch. 2 Witch. 3 Witch. Speak. Demand. We 'll answer. 1 Witch. Say, if thou 'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters'? Macb. Call them, let me see them. 1 Witch. Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten Into the flame. All. Come, high, or low; Thyself, and office, deftly show. Thunder. An Apparition of an armed Head rises. Macb. Tell me, thou unknown 1 Witch. power, He knows thy thought; Hear his speech, but say thou nought. App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Mac duff; Beware the thane of Fife.-Dismiss me :-Enough. [Descends. Macb. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harp'd my fear aright:-But one word more :-- a Germins-the original is germaine. Germins are seeds; gcr. maine, kindred, something closely related to another. |