Doct. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. 51 Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that heaven knows what she has known. Lady M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh! Doct. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. Gent. I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. Doct. Well, well, well. Gent. Pray God it be, sir. Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds. Lady M. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Doct. Even so? 69 SCENE II. The Country near Dunsinane. Enter, with drum and colours, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers. Geese, villain! Serv. Soldiers, sir. What soldiers, patch! Mach. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Ment. The English power is near, led on by Thou lily-liver'd boy. Malcolm, Ment. What does the tyrant? Caith. Great Dunsinane be strongly fortifies. Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him Do call it valiant fury; but, for certain, He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of rule. Ang. Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands ; Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love; now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. 20 Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey face? Serv. The English force, so please you. Macb. Take thy face hence. Exit Servant, When I behold-Seyton, I say!--This push Seyton!--I am sick at heart Will cheer me ever or disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare Seyton! not. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead. SCENE IV.-Country near Birnam Wood. Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, old SIWARD There would have been a time for such a word. and his Son, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITH-To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, NESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, Ross, and Soldiers, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, marching. To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief Mal. Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand That chambers will be safe. Ment. We doubt it nothing. And bear't before him: thereby shall we The numbers of our host, and make discovery Sold. It shall be done. Siw. We learn no other but the confident Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure Mal. things Whose hearts are absent too. candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player Enter a Messenger. 220 SCENE VI.-The Same. A Plain before the Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, MACDUFF, etc., and their Army, with boughs. Mal. Now, near enough; your leavy screens throw down, And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle, Siw. Macd. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. Exeunt. They fight and young SIWARD is slain. Mach. Thou wast born of woman: But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that 's of a woman born. Exit, Alarums. Enter MACDUff. Macd. That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face: If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghost will haunt me still I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms Are hir'd to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge By this great clatter, one of greatest note Macd. Re-enter MACduff. Macd. I bear a charmed life, which must not yield Macd. Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells meso, And live to be the show and gaze o' the time: 50 I will not yield. To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou oppos'd, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last: before my body I throw my war-like shield. And damn'd be him that enough!' Lay on, Macduff, first cries 'Hold, Exeunt, fighting. Retreat. Flourish. Re-enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, ROSS, Thanes, and Soldiers. Mal. I would the friends we miss were safe arriv'd. Siw. Some must go off; and yet, by these I see, So great a day as this is cheaply bought. Mal. Macduff is missing, and your noble son. Ross. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt: He only liv'd but till he was a man ; The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd Siw. Then he is dead? 71 Ross. Ay, and brought off the field. Your Must not be measur'd by his worth, for then Siv. Had he his hurts before? They say, he parted well, and paid his score: And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort. Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH'S head. The usurper's cursed head: the time is free: Hail, King of Scotland! 90 Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland Ross. Ay, on the front. Why then, God's soldier be he! I would not wish them to a fairer death: Mal. And that I'll spend for him. He's worth no more; 80 101 Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and Attendants. Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS. Hor. Friends to this ground. Mar. Ber. Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good Marcellus. Mar. What! has this thing appear'd again to-night? Ber. I have seen nothing. Mar. Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. Hor. Tush, tush! 'twill not appear. Ber. Sit down awhile, a And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story, What we two nights have seen. Hor. Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Ber. Last night of all, When yond same star that's westward from the pole And liegemen to the Dane. Had made his course to illume that part of Fran. Give you good night. heaven |