SCENE IV.-Fores. A Room in the Palace. મ Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN. LENOX, and Attendants. Dun. Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet return'd?: Mal. My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke Dun. There's no art, To find the mind's construction in the face: An absolute trust.-O worthiest cousin! Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSSE, and ANGUS. The sin of my ingratitude even now Was heavy on me: Thou art so before, That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. 'Would thou hadst less deserv'd; 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. Dun. Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour And hold thee to my heart. Ban. There if I grow, The harvest is your own. Dun. My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter, 10 to The prince of Cumberland, which honour mustaf Not, unaccompanied, invest him only, But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shineFA On all deservers. From hence to Inverness, And bind us further to you. Maeb. The rest is labour which is not us'd for you: I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful0438 The hearing of my wife with your approach; So, humbly take my leave. Dun. My worthy Cawdor! Mach. The prince of Cumberland!That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, [Aside. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! LÔ Let not light see my black and deep desires: Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. Dun. True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant ; And in his commendations I am fed ; It is a banquet to me. Let us after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: [Flourish. Exeunt. SCENE V.-Inverness. A Room in 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 of Cawdor; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with, Hail, king that shalt be! This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness; that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promis'd thee, Lay it to thy heart, and farewell. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt bed pic To catch the nearest way: Thou would'st be great; The illness, should attend it. What thou would'st highly, That, which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it; Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither," い! T To have thee crown'd withal.What is your tidings?" Enter an Attendant. Atten. The king comes here to-night. Lady M. Thou'rt mad to say it: Is not thy master with him? who, wer't so, Would have inform'd for preparation. Atten. So please you, it is true; our thane is coming : One of my fellows had the speed of him; Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Lady M. Give him tending, He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse, [Exit Attendant. That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan' Stop up I Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between T You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, Enter MACBETH. Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter !.. Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Mach. My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes hence? Mach. To-morrow, as he purposes. Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters: To beguile the time, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, Must be provided for and you shall put This night's great business into my despatch; Lady M. Only look up clear; |