Macbeth. Can such things be, ΙΙΟ And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange When now I think you can behold such sights, When mine is blanch'd with fear. Ross. What sights, my lord? Lady M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him. At once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, [Exeunt all but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth. It will have blood: they say blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augures and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth Lady M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which. Macbeth. How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person At our great bidding? Lady Macbeth. Did you send to him, sir? Macbeth. I hear it by the way, but I will send : 130 There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow, More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know, Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Strange things I have in head that will to hand, 140 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 Great business must be wrought ere noon: There hangs a vaporous drop profound; ΙΟ 20 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? ΙΟ 20 Lord. The son of Duncan, Of the most pious Edward with such grace 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. ΙΟ SCENE I. A cavern. First Witch. Thunder. Second Witch. Third Witch. ACT IV. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Enter the three Witches. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time.' 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, Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Gall of goat, and slips of yew 39 20 |