As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine- And set me up in hope? But hush, no more. 1Ο Sennet sounded. Enter Macbeth, as king; Lady Macbeth, as queen; Lennox, Ross, 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, Macb. To-night we hold a solemn supper, sir, Ban. Let your highness my duties Command upon me, to the which Are with a most indissoluble tie For ever knit. Macb. Ride you this afternoon? Ban. Ay, my good lord. Macb. We should have else desired your good advice, In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow. Ban. As far, my lord, as will fill up the time 20 Macb. 'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better, I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain. Ban. My lord, I will not. Fail not our feast. 30 Macb. We hear our bloody cousins are bestow'd And so I do commend you to their backs. [Exit Banquo. 40 Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night; to make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself [Exeunt all but Macbeth and an Attendant. Attend. They are, my lord, without the palace-gate. Macb. Bring them before us. But to be safely thus: [Exit Attendant. To be thus is nothing; our fears in Banquo 50 Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares, And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, Mark Antony's was by Cæsar. He chid the sisters, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd; Given to the common enemy of man, бо To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! 70 Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, And champion me to the utterance! Who's there? Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers. Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. [Exit Attendant. Well then, now Was it not yesterday we spoke together? First Mur. It was, so please your highness. Macb. Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know That it was he in the times past which held you So under fortune, which you thought had been Our innocent self: this I made good to you In our last conference; pass'd in probation with you, 80 How you were borne in hand, how cross'd, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might To half a soul and to a notion crazed Say Thus did Banquo.' You made it known to us. First Mur. That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd, First Mur. We are men, my liege. Macb. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, That writes them all alike: and so of men. Sec. Mur. 100 I am one, my liege, |