? WHE Upon the heath. SWIE Tier to meet with Macbeth. 1 WIRE. I Come. Graymalkin! A' Fajaock elis:—anon! For as it and fall is fair: Høver tirugh the fog and nithy air. This is the sergeant, Whi, like a good and hardy soldier, fought Gainst my captivity-Hs, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil, As thou didst have it. Doubtful it stood; CAP. Carv'd out his passage till he fac'd the slave ; There to meet with Macbeth.] Pope, to remedy the defective verse, reads, "There I go to meet Macbeth;" Capell, "There to meet with great Macbeth;" and Steevens, "3 Witch. There to meet with1 Witch. 3 Witch. Whom? Macbeth." b ALL. Paddock calls: &c.] The folio prints these lines as if spoken in chorus by the three witches; but the distribution commonly adopted by modern editors, "2 Witch. Paddock calls:-anon. All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air,"is certainly preferable. The dialogue throughout, with the exception of the two lines, "I come, Graymalkin!" and calls:-anon!" was probably intended to be sung or chaunted. 'Paddock This is the sergeant,-] Sergeants were not formerly the noncommissioned officers now so called, but a guard specially appointed to attend the person of the king; and, as Minsheu says, to arrest Traytors or great men, that doe, or are like to contemne messengers of ordinarie condition, and to attend the Lord High Steward of England, sitting in judgement upon any Traytor, and such like," And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, &c.] The old text has, damned Quarry," &c.; but the fact that quarrel, a 472 Dismay'd not this Yes: As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. I cannot tell:— But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. KING. So well thy words become thee as thy They smack of honour both.-Go, get Lim Enter Ross.* Ross. God save the king! Norway himself, with terrible numbers, (*) Old text, Enter Rosse and Angus. most appropriate word, occurs in the corresponding pastare fdireful thunders break; &c.] The word break is want r: = the folio 1623, and was supplied by Pope out of the subsequen! folios, which read, "breaking." As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks; &e.] Jah interprets this, "cannon charged with double thunders;" and serves truly that cracks was a word of such emphasis and die 2* that in this play the writer terms the general dissolution of machin the crack of doom. h that seems to speak things strange.] Johnson prop "that teems to speak things strange; " and Mr. Collier's ann with characteristic vapidity, "that comes to speak," &; compare, Scene 5, "Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem i with terrible numbers,-] Pope's transposition, "numbers terrible," is, prosodically, an improvement. 1 WITH A kal. Marblech! hail to thee, thane of GlaER! 2 Warm Al Eai. Macbeth! bail to thee. thane of Cawde! 3 WITCH. All hi. Macbeth that shalt be King bereafter. BAX. Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that de scand so fair?- the name of truth. Are ve fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardy ve show? My noble partner las uted that in Hakluyt's Voyages there a ant journa's of a voyage made to Aleppo in th of Lentre, in the year 1583. Forespoken, bewitched. Ay verina Ward (in the old text weywords from The Sur eyes. signifies prophetic or fatal. Helinst Nasespeare flows, speaking of the witches who re LAMI, ses --But afterwards the common opinion was th the waren were either the weird sisters, that is (as re wen say the gablesses af destinie, or else some nymphes or fairies. 3.nd yet your beards forbid me to interpret Virdes rerrting to the popular belief, were always bearden "—and the women that BAN. To the self-same tune and words.-Who's here? Enter Ross and ANGUS. Ross. The king hath happily receiv'd, Macbeth, The news of thy success: and when he reads a We are sent To give thee, from our royal master, thanks; Only to herald thee into his sight, ANG. Who was the thane lives yet; But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose. Whêr he was combin'd With those of Norway, or did line the rebel With hidden help and vantage, or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; But treasons capital, confess'd, and prov'd, Have overthrown him. MACB. [Aside.] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind.—Thanks for your pains.Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me, Promis'd no less to them? Without my stir. BAN. New honours come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. MACB. [Aside.] Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. BAN. Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. MACB. Give me your favour:— My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. Think upon what hath chanc'd; and, at more time, The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other. BAN. Very gladly. [Exeunt. MACB. Till then, enough.-Come, friends. Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : d Time and the hour-] Examples of this phrase may readily be found in the early writers of England. Mr. Dyce has shown that it was familiar also to those of Italy: "Ferminsi in un momento il tempo e l'ore." Michelagnolo,-Sɔn. xix. |