Lady Macbeth. You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Macbeth. Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed. SCENE V. A heath. [Exeunt. Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting HECATE. First Witch. Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Hecate. Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death; Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do, Meet me i' the morning: thither he ΤΟ 20 Great business must be wrought ere noon: There hangs a vaporous drop profound; He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear Is mortals' chiefest enemy. 30 [Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' &c. Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see, [Exit. Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. again. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. Forres. The palace. Enter LENNOX and another Lord. Lennox. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, Which can interpret farther: only I say Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep? He has borne all things well: and I do think As, an't please heaven, he shall not-they should find But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd 10 20 Lord. The son of Duncan, Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, Lennox. Sent he to Macduff? Lord. He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,' Lennox. And that well might Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance His message ere he come, that a swift blessing Lord. I'll send my prayers with him. 30 40 [Exeunt. SCENE I. A cavern. ACT IV. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. First Witch. Second Witch. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.' Third Witch. First Witch. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty one All. Double, double toil and trouble; Second Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, All. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, 10 20 35 Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. All. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Second Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Hecate. Enter HECATE to the other three Witches. And every one shall share i̇' the gains: And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. 40 [Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' &c. Hecate retires. Second Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! Enter MACBETH. Macbeth. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! What is't you do? All. A deed without a name. Macbeth. I conjure you, by that which you profess, 50 Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germens tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken; answer me To what I ask you. First Witch. Second Witch. Third Witch. Speak. Demand. We'll answer. 60 |