Then I'll sit down.- Give me some wine; fill full: Ghost rises. And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss ; Lords. Our duties, and the pledge. Macb. Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation2 in those eyes Lady M. Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom. "Tis no other Macb. What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 3 [Ghost disappears. Unreal mockery, hence!-Why, so;-being gone, I am a man again.-'Pray you, sit still. Lady M. You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. Macb. Can such things be, And overcome.us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, 4 1 That is, "we desire to drink" all good wishes to all. 2 "Thou hast no speculation in those eyes." Bullokar, in his Expositor, 1616, explains "speculation, the inward knowledge or beholding of a thing." 确 3 Dare me to the desert with thy sword; if then I do not meet thee there; if, trembling, I stay in my castle, or any habitation; if I then hide my head, or dwell in any place through fear,-protest me the baby of a girl. 4 i. e. possess. When now I think you can behold such sights, Rosse. What sights, my lord? Lady M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him. At once, good night. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. Len. Good night, and better health Macb. It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood; Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth which. 2 Macb. How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person, At our great bidding? Lady M. Did you send to him, sir? Macb. I hear it by the way; but I will send : I keep a servant feed. I will, to-morrow, (And betimes I will,) to the weird sisters. More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, 1 i. e. auguries, divinations; formerly spelled augures, as appears by Florio in voce augurio. By understood relations, probably, connected circumstances relating to the crime are meant. In all the modern editions we have it, erroneously, augurs. Magot-pie is the original name of the magpie: stories, such as Shakspeare alludes to, are to be found in Lupton's Thousand Notable Things, and in Goulart's Admirable Histories. 2 i. e. what say'st thou to this circumstance? Thus, in Macbeth's address to his wife, on the first appearance of Banquo's ghost: "Behold! look! lo! how say you? Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Lady M. You lack the season1 of all natures, sleep. abuse Is the initiate fear, that wants hard use.- SCENE V. The Heath. Thunder. [Exeunt. Enter HECATE, meeting the three Witches. 1 Witch. Why, how now, angerly. now, Hecate ? you Hec. Have I not reason, beldames, as you are, Saucy, and overbold? How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth, In riddles and affairs of death; And I, the mistress of your charms, And, which is worse, all you have done Spiteful, and wrathful; who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. But make amends now. Get you gone, And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i' the morning; thither he Will come to know his destiny. look "You stand in need of the time or season of sleep which all natures require." 2 The editions previous to Theobald's read "We're but young indeed." The initiate fear is the fear that always attends the first initiation into guilt, before the mind becomes callous and insensible by hard use or frequent repetition of it. Your vessels, and your spells, provide, Great business must be wrought ere noon: 1 There hangs a vaporous drop profound;" He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear Is mortal's chiefest enemy. Song. [Within.] Come away, come away, &c.2 Hark, I am called; my little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. back again. 1 Witch. Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be [Exit. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. Fores. A Room in the Palace. Enter LENOX and another Lord. Len. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, Which can interpret further: only, I say, Duncan The gracious Was pitied of Macbeth :-marry, he was dead.— And the right-valiant Banquo walked too late; Whom you may say, if it please you, Fleance killed, 1 The vaporous drop profound seems to have been meant for the same as the virus lunare of the ancients, being a foam which the moon was supposed to shed on particular herbs, or other objects, when strongly solicited by enchantment. 2 This song is to be found entire, in The Witch, by Middleton. For Fleance fled. Men must not walk too late. To kill their gracious father? Damned fact! That were the slaves of drink, and thralls of sleep? (As, an't please Heaven, he shall not,) they should find What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance. But peace!-for from broad words, and 'cause he failed His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear, Lord. The son of Duncan, From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth, Is To wake Northumberland, and warlike Siward ; Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights; 3 1 "Who cannot want the thought," &c. The sense requires “who can want the thought;" but it is probably a lapse of the Poet's pen. 2 It has been shown that free sometimes meant pure, chaste, consequently unspotted, which may be its meaning here. Free also meant noble. 3 Exasperate, for exasperated. |