Len. Mean you his majesty? Macd. Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight Ring the alarum-bell :-Murder! and treason! Enter Lady MACBETH. Lady M. [Bell rings. What's the business, O, gentle lady, "Tis not for you to hear what I can speak : The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell,O Banquo! Banquo! Enter BANQUO. Our royal master's murder'd! Lady M. What, in our house? Ban. Woe, alas! Too cruel, any where. Dear Duff, I pr'ythee, contradict thyself, And say, it is not so. Re-enter MACBETH and LENOX. Macb. Had I but died an hour before this chance All is but toys renown, and grace, is dead: Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN. Don. What is amiss? Macb. You are, and do not know it; The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Len. Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done't: They star'd, and were distracted; no man's life Macb. O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them. Macd. Wherefore did you so? Macb. Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate, and fuLoyal and neutral, in a moment? No man : The expedition of my violent love Out-ran the pauser reason.-Here lay Duncan, [rious, And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature, Lady M. Macd. Look to the lady. Mal. Help me hence, ho! Why do we hold our tongues, That most may claim this argument for ours? Where our fate, hid within an augre-hole, May rush, and seize us? Let's away; our tears Mal. The foot of motion. Ban. Nor our strong sorrow on Look to the lady: [Lady Macbeth is carried out. And when we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure, let us meet, And question this most bloody piece of work, Of treasonous malice. Macb. All. And so do I. So all. Mach. Let's briefly put on manly readiness, And meet i'the hall together. All. Well contented. [Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain. Mal. What will you do? Let's not consort with them: To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office Which the false man does easy: I'll to England. Mal SCENE IV. Without the Castle. Enter ROSSE and an Old Man.. [Exeunt. Old M. Threescore and ten I can remember well: Within the volume of which time, I have seen Hours dreadful, and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings. Ah, good father, Rosse. Old M. Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. Rosse. And Duncan's horses (a thing most strange and certain,) Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Old M. "Tis said, they eat each other. so; to the amazement of mine eyes, Here comes the good Macduff: Enter MACDUFF. How goes the world, sir, now? Macd. Rosse. What good could they pretend? Macd. Alas, the day! They were suborn'd : Malcolm, and Donalbain, the king's two sons, Rosse. 'Gainst nature still: Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up Thine own life's means!-Then 'tis most like, The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. Macd. He is already nam'd; and gone to Scone, To be invested. Rosse. Macd. Carried to Colmes-kill; The sacred storehouse of his predecessors, Where is Duncan's body? Will you to Scone? Well, I will thither. And guardian of their bones. Rosse. Macd. No, cousin, I'll to Fife. Lest our old robes sit easier than our new! Rosse. Father, farewell. Old M. God's benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes! [Exeunt. SCENE I. FORES. A Room in the Palace. Ban. Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, But that myself should be the root, and father And set me up in hope? But, hush; no more.. Senet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as King; Lady MACBETH, as Queen; LENOX, Rosse, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants. Macb. Here's our chief guest. Lady M. If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all things unbecoming. Macb. To-night we hold a solemn supper, sir, |