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The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible fhadow!

Unreal mock'ry, hence! [ The Ghost vanishes.] Why, fo

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* being gone,

I am a man again. Pray you fit ftill.

Lady. You have difplac'd the mirth, meeting

With most admir'd disorder.

Macb. Can fuch things be,

And overcome us, like a fummer's cloud,

[" The Lords rift.

broke the good

Without our special wonder? You make me ftrange
Even to the difpofition that I owe,

When now I think you can behold fuch fights,

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And keep the natural ruby of your checks,

When mine is blanch'd with fear.

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Roffe. What fights, my Lord?

Lady. I pray you, speak not; he grows worfe and worse; Queftion enrages him. At once, good night.

IT.'s duodecimo, W. and J. terrible for borrible.

w W. reads Can't for Can; and makes this fentence down to wonder, a part of

In the three laft fo's, [Exit. The the Lady's foregoing speech.

firft f. has no direction.

read be for being.

* W. interprets overcome, deceive;

t The two last fo's, R. P. and H. but overcome feems here to have the fame meaning with come over. See Dr. Hurd's note on the Callida jun&tura of Horace.

This direction not in the fo's. Qu. Whether it would not be most proper for the Lords to rife immediately apon Macbeth's breaking out, Avaunt, and quit my fight, &c. and that upon perceiving them standing, after he had recovered from his fright, it is, that he fays, Pray you fit ftill.

y Owe, the fame as cron.

z H. J. and C. read check for cheeks, for the fake (I fuppofe) of the concord with the verbis but it is the Ruby of the cheeks, and not the cheek, that is blanch'd.

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Stand not upon the order of your going,

But go at once.

Len. Good night, and better health Attend his Majesty!

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Lady. A kind good-night to all.

[Exeunt Roffe, Lenox, Lords, and Attendants. Macb. It will have blood, they fay, blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;

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d Augurs that understood relations, have

By maggot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth The fecret'ft man of blood.-What is the night?

Lady. Almoft at odds with morning which is which. Mach. How fay'ft thou, that Macduff denies his perfon, At our great bidding?

Lady. Did you fend to him, Sir?

Mach. I hear it by the way; but I will fend.
'There's not a one of them, but in his house
I keep a fervant fee'd. I will to-morrow

( And betimes I will) to the i weïrd fifters;
More fhall they speak; for now I am bent to know,
By the worst means, the worft: for mine own good,
All caufes fhall give way; I am in blood

* Stept in fo far, that fhould I wade no more.

b P. and all after, except C. omit A kind.

The fo's, Augures, and underfood relations, &c.

d W. and J. underftand for under · food.

So all before P; he and all after, By mag-pies, and by cbought, &c.

f P. There is not one, &c. T. and all after, There's not a Thane of, &c. g P. and all after omit And. h P. and all after, unto for to.

i The three laft fo's and R. wizard for weird.

k The three laft fo's and R. Spent for Stept.

Returning

Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;
Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Lady. You lack the season of all natures, fleep.

Mach. Come, we'll m to fleep; my strange and self-abufe Is the initiate fear that wants hard ufe:

We are yet but young " in deed.

[Exeunt.

• SCENE VI.

P The Heath.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecate,

1 Witch. Why, how now, Hecat? you look angerly, Hec. Have I not reafon, Beldams, as you are?

Saucy and over-bold, how did you dare

To trade and traffic with Macbeth,

In riddles, and affairs of death;
And I, the miftrefs of your charins,
The clofe contriver of all harms,
Was never call'd to bear my part,
Or fhew the glory of our art?

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And, which is worfe, all you have done
Hath been but for a 2 wayward fon,
Spightful and wrathful; who, as others do,
Loves for his own ends, not for you.
But make amends now; get you gone,
And at the pit of Acheron

Meet me i' th' morning; thither he
Will come, to know his destiny;
Your veffels and your fpells provide,
Your charms, and every thing befide
I am for th' air; this night I'll spend
Unto a difinal, and a fatal end.

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Great bufinefs muft be wrought ere noon:
Upon the corner of the moon

There hangs a vap'rous drop, profound;
I'll catch it ere it come to ground;
And that, diftill'd by magic flights,
Shall raife fuch artificial fprights,
As, by the ftrength of their illufion,
Shall draw him on to his confufion.

He fhall fpurn fate, fcorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wifdom, grace, and fear;
you all know, fecurity.

And

Is mortals' chiefeft enemy.

Hark, I am call'd; my little fpirit, fec,

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Sits in a foggy cloud, and ftays for me.

[Mufic and a fong.

[Sing within. Come away, come away, &c. hafte, fhe 'll foon be back

Witch. Come, let's make

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SCENE VII.

"A Chamber.

Enter Lenox, and another Lord.

Len. My former speeches have but hit

your thoughts, Which can interpret farther. Only I fay,

Things have been ftrangely born. The gracious Duncan Was pitied of Macbeth-marry, he was dead:

And the right-valiant Banque walk'd too late,

Whom you may fay, if 't please you, Fleance kill'd,

For Fleance fled. Men must not walk too late.

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w Who cannot want the thought, how monftrous
It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain

To kill their gracious father? dainned fact!
How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight
In pious rage, the two delinquents tear,

That were the flaves of drink, and thralls of fleep?

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Was not that nobly done? ay, and wifely too:

Scene

In the fo's and C. scene 6; in R. reads, You cannot went, &c.

5.

x P. and all after, except C. add too

u No defcription in the fo's, R. P, after monftrous. and H.

w The meaning here should seem to be, Who can roant the thought, &c. or, Who cannot have the thought, &c. H.

y P. and all after, except C. did it for

it did.

z P. and all after, except C. omit and,

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