Enter Roffe and Angus. Who comes here? Mal. The worthy Thane of Roffe. Len. What hafte looks through his eyes? i So fhould he look, that feems to speak things ftrange. Roffe. God fave the King! King. Whence cam'ft thou, worthy Thane? Roffe. From Fife, great king, Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, And fan our people cold. Norway himself, with terrible numbers, Affifted by that most difloyal traytor, The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, 'Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapt in proof, Confronted him with felf-comparisons, Point against point rebellious ", arm 'gainst arm, "And to conclude, Sweno, the Norway's king, craves composition: f P. and all after, read But before numbers terrible, affified, &c. followed by wbe. First f..What a bafte, &c. all after. So all before P; he and all after, h Upton thinks this line fhould be except C. 'gan. given to Malcolme. m In all editions before T. the com. ma is placed after point. n P. and all after, except C. om And. • P. and all after, omit That as Nor would we deign him burial of his men, King. No more that Thane of Cawdor fhall deceive Roffe. I'll fee it done. King. What he hath loft, noble Macbeth hath won. 1 Witch. Where haft thou been, fifter? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sifter, where thou? 1 Witch. A failor's wife had chefnuts in her lap, And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht. quoth I. Give me, Aroynt thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, mafter o' th' Tiger: 9 P. and all after, except C. omit prefent. The three last fo's, great. P The ft f. Colmes yncb; the other fo's, R. and C. Cohnes bill; the rest, Colmes-kill-ifle, except H. who reads as in the text, and gives the following note: "Celmkil is one of the Western ifles of Aroyut, « Scotland, otherwise call'd Jona.” The 3d and 4th fo's, Ancynt for But But in a fieve I'll thither fail, And like a rat without a tail, 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other. " W And the very points they blow; All the quarters that they know, - I'll drain him dry as hay, 2 Witch. Shew me, fhew me." 1 Witch. Here, I have a pilot's thumb, Wrackt as homeward he did come. 3 Witch. A drum, a drum! · Macbeth doth come! [Drum within. So the fo's, R. and C; the rest, Thou art for Thou'rt. J. propofes, various for very. ▾ All before P, read ports for points, x So all before P; he and all after, except C. I will for I'll. y i. e. interdicted. As the Pope's legate told K. John, "He (the Pope) "hath wholly interdicted and curfed "you, for the wrongs you have done "unto the holy church." Fox, Vol. I. P 285. Upton's Crit. Ob, All. All. The weird fifters, hand in hand, Pofters of the fea and land, Thus do go about, about, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine. Peace, the charm's wound up. SCENE IV. Enter Macbeth and Banquo *. Mac. So foul and fair a day I have not feen. Ban. How far is 't call'd to Foris?-What are thefe, So wither'd and fo wild in their attire ? That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? Live you, or are you aught Upon her skinny lips. You fhould be women, a R. and all after add, with foldiers and other attendants, (except C. who directs, Enter Macb. and Bang, journeying ; foldiers, and others, at a diftance). But, as it does not appear that there is any need of them in the fcene, fo it is likewife improper there fhould be any witneffes to what paffed in it. z So T. H. and C; the rest, wryward.· fendis that fuld be wit. And hence comes "Be aventure Makbeth and Banquho wizard. Upton, Crit. Obs. were paffand to Fores, qubair king Duncane hapnit to be for the tyme, and met be ye gait thre women clothit in elrage and uncouth weid. They wer jugit be the pe pill to be weird fifteris. The old Scotifh chron. fol. c. LXXIII. glo-Sax. Wyrd, fatum, comes, weird fifters, parca. So Douglafs in his tranf lation of Virgil, Æn. III. Probibent nam cætera parcæ fcire. The weird fiferis de From the An b All before P. Soris for Foris. And And yet your beards forbid me to interpret Mac. Speak; if you can; what are you? 1 Witch. All-hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis ! 2 Witch. All-hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! 3 Witch. All-hail, Macbeth! that fhalt be king hereafter. Which outwardly ye fhew? My noble partner That he feems rapt withal; to me you speak not. And fay which grain will grow and which will not; 1 Witch. Leffer than Macbeth, and greater. 2 Witch. Not fo happy, yet much happier. 3 Witch. Thou fhalt get kings, though thou be none; So, all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! 1 Witch. Banquo and Macbeth, all hail! Mac. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more; d P. and H. omit Se. All before P. wrept. By |