SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English Forces. YOUNG SIWARD, his Son. SEYTON, an Officer attending Macbeth. Son to Macduff. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. LADY MACBETH. LADY MACduff. Gentlewoman attending Lady Macbeth. HECATE. Three Witches. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. The Ghost of Banquo, and other Apparitions. SCENE, in the end of the fourth Act, in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland. (426) THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. ACT I. SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. W FIRST WITCH. HEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. 3 Witch. That will be ere the set of sun. 1 Witch. Where the place? 2 Witch. Upon the heath. 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin ! All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Eover through the fog and filthy air. [Witches vanish (427) SCENE II A Camp near Forres. Alarum within. Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier. Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can re port, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Malcolm. This is the sergeant, Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the King thy knowledge of the broil, As thou did'st leave it. Soldier. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald (Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Like valour's minion, carv'd out his passage, Till he fac'd the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements. Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sold. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwracking 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, Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heels, With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men, Dun. Dismay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sold. Yes; As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. I cannot tell. But I am faint; my gashes cry for help. Dun. So well thy words wounds : They smack of honour both. become thee, as thy Go, get him surgeons. [Exit Soldier, attended. Enter ROSSE and ANGUS. The worthy Thane of Rosse. Who comes here? Mal. Lenox. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look that seems to speak things strange. Rosse. God save the King! Dun. Whence cam'st thou, worthy Thane? Rosse. From Fife, great King; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, with terrible numbers, The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm, Dun. Rosse. That now Great happiness! Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition; Till he disbursed at Saint Colmes' Inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. Dun. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. Rosse. I'll see it done. Dun. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. [Exeunt. Thunder. 1 Witch. SCENE III. A Heath. Enter the three Witches. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd: "Give me,” quoth I: "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. |