That could be found. Wife, children, servants, all I cannot but remember such things were, heaven, Cut short all intermission; front to front, Macd. My wife kill'd too? Rosse. Mal. I have said. Be comforted: Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief. Mal. This tune goes manly. Come, go we to the king; our power is ready; Our lack is nothing but our leave: Macbeth Receive what cheer you Macd. He has no children. - All my pretty ones? Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above may; The night is long that never finds the day. [Exeunt. ACT V. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle. Enter a Doctor of Physick, and a waiting Gentle woman. Doct. I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last walked? Gent. Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon it, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed: yet all this while in a most fast sleep. Doct. A great perturbation in nature! to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? Gent. That, sir, which I will not report after her. Doct. You may, to me; and 'tis most meet you should. Gent. Neither to you, nor any one; having no witness to confirm my speech. Enter Lady MACBETH, with a Taper. Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise: and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close. Doct. How came she by that light? Gent. Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; 'tis her command. Doct. You see, her eyes are open. Doct. What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. Gent. It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands; I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. The game after it is killed. Lady M. Yet here's a spot. Doct. Hark, she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Lady M. Out, damned spot! out, I say!— One; Two; Why, then 'tis time to do't: Hell is murky! 2 Fye, my lord, fye! a soldier, and afear'd? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: Heaven knows what she has known. Lady M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh! Doct. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. Gent. I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the dignity of the whole body. Doct. Well, well, well, Gent. 'Pray God, it be, sir. Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds. Lady M. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave. Doct. Even so? Lady M. To bed, to bed; there's knocking at 2 Dark. the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand: What's done, cannot be undone: To bed, to bed, to bed. [Exit Lady MACBETH. Doct. Will she go now to bed? Gent. Directly. Fear not, Macbeth; no man, that's born of woman, Shall e'er have power on thee. Then fly, false thanes, And mingle with the English epicures: Doct. Foul whisperings are abroad; Unnatural Shall never sagg 7 with doubt, nor shake with fear. deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: Infected minds Good night, good doctor. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane. Enter, with Drum and Colours, MENTETH, CATHNESS, ANGUS, LENOx, and Soldiers. When I behold Seyton! I am Seyton, I say! This push Ment. The English power is near, led on by Mal- Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. colm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. Ang. Ment. What does the tyrant? Ang. Ment. Who then shall blame His pester'd senses to recoil and start, When all that is within him does condemn Itself, for being there? Cath. Well, march we on, To give obedience where 'tis truly ow'd: Meet we the medecin 6 of the sickly weal; And with him pour we, in our country's purge, Each drop of us. Or so much as it needs, Len. To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds. Make we our march towards Birnam. [Exeunt, marching. SCENE III. - Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle. Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants. Macb. Bring me no more reports; let them fly all; Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm! Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know All mortal consequents, pronounc'd me thus: 4 A religious; an ascetic. The physician 3 Confounded. Unbearded. Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff : — 7 Sink. 9 An appellation of contempt. Base fellow. 1 Dry. 2 Scour. Dcct. Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation | And all our yesterdays have lighted fools Makes us hear something. Macb. Bring it after me. We doubt it nothing. The wood of Birnam. Mal. Let every soldier hew him down a bough, Sold. It shall be done. The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Thou com'st to use thy tongue; thy story quickly. Macb. I saw, Well, say, sir. Mess. As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Macb. Liar, and slave! [Striking him. Macb. Siw. We learn no other, but the confident tyrant I care not if thou dost for me as much. Our setting down before't. Mal. Macd. Siw. The time approaches, That will with due decision make us know [Exeunt, marching. SCENE V. - Dunsinane. Within the Castle. Enter, with Drums and Colours, Macbeth, SeytoN, and Soldiers. Macb. Hang out our banners on the outward The cry is still, They come: Our castle's strength As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; [Exeunt. SCENE VI. - A Plain before the Castle. Enter, with Drums and Colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, MACDUFF, &c. and their Army, with Boughs. Mal. Now near enough; your leavy screens throw And show like those you are: -You, worthy uncle, Siw. Macd. Make all our trumpets speak; give them Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. Macb. Thou'lt be afraid to hear it. Yo. Siw. No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name Than any is in hell. 5 Shrivel. Yc. Siw. Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword I'll prove the lie thou speak'st. [They fight, and young SIWARD is slain. Macb. Thou wast born of woman, But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born. [Exit. Alarums. Enter MACDuff. Macd. That way the noise is: - Tyrant, show thy face: If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, [Exit. Alarum. My voice is in my sword; thou bloodier villain Than terins can give thee out! [They fight. Macb. Thou losest labour: As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air 8 With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed : Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. Macd. Despair thy charm; And let the angel, whom thou still hast serv'd, Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd. Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow'd my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter 9 with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, I'll not yield, Painted upon a pole; and underwrit, Retreat. Flourish. Re-enter with Drum and Colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, ROSSE, LENOX, ANGUS, CATHNESS, MENTETH, and Soldiers. Mal. I would, the friends we miss were safe arriv'd. Siw. Some must go off: and yet, by these I see, So great a day as this is cheaply bought. Mal. Macduff is missing, and your noble son. Rosse. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt: He only liv'd but till he was a man; The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd And that I'll spend for him. He's worth no more; Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's Head on a Pole. Macd. Hail, king! for so thou art: Behold, where stands The usurper's cursed head: the time is free: All. King of Scotland, hail! [Flourish. Mal. We shall not spend a large expense of time, Before we reckon with your several loves, And make us even with you. My thanes and kins men, Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Took off her life: Macd. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o'the time. We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, 7 Reported with clamour. 9 Shuffle. Foot-soldiers. The air which cannot be cut. [Flourish. Exeunt. KING JOHN. KING JOHN. PERSONS REPRESENTED. PRINCE HENRY, his Son; afterwards K. Henry III. WILLIAM LONGSWORD, Earl of Salisbury. HUBERT DE BURGH, Chamberlain to the King. ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, Son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge. PHILIP FAULCONBRIDGE, his Half-Brother, Bastard JAMES GURNEY, Servant to Lady Faulconbridge. LEWIS, the Dauphin. CHATILLON, Ambassador from France to King John. ELINOR, the Widow of King Henry II. and Mother of King John. CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur. LADY FAULCONBRIDGE, Mother to the Bastard, and Lords, Ladies, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, SCENE, sometimes in England, and sometimes in France. In Chat. Thus, after greeting, speaks the king of France, my behaviour, to the majesty, The borrow'd majesty of England here. Eli. A strange beginning; - - borrow'd majesty! K. John. Silence, good mother; hear the embassy. Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalf To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine: K. John. What follows, if we disallow of this? In the manner I now do. Chat. The proud control of fierce and bloody war, To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld. K. John. Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment: so answer France. Chat. Then take my king's defiance from my mouth, The furthest limit of my embassy. K. John. Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace : Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France; [Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE. |