SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the

English forces.

YOUNG SIWARD, his son.

SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth.

Boy, son to Macduff.

AN ENGLISH DOCTOR.
A SCOTCH DOCTOR.
A SOLDIER.

A PORTER.

AN OLD MAN.

LADY MACBETH.

LADY MACDUFF.

GENTLEWOMAN attending on Lady Macbeth.
HECATE. Three Witches. Apparitions.
Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers,
Attendants, and Messengers.

Scene-Scotland: England.

MACBETH.

ACT THE FIRST.

SCENE I.

A desert place.

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SEC. WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH. Where the place?

SEC. WITCH.

Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth.

FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin!

SEC. WITCH. Paddock calls.

THIRD WITCH. Anon.

ALL. Fair is foul, and foul is fair :

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

SCENE II.

A camp near Forres.

[Exeunt.

Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant.

DUN. What bloody man is that? He can report,

B

As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.

MAL.

This is the sergeant

Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil

As thou didst leave it.

SER.

Doubtful it stood;

As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless MacdonwaldWorthy to be a rebel, for to that

The multiplying villanies of nature

Do swarm upon him-from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;

And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak :
For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,

Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;

Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.

DUN. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! SER. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No sooner justice had with valour arm'd