COSTUMES.

MACBETH.—First dress: Scarlet plaid vest, kelt, and tartan, cap, feathers, and breast-plate. Second dress: Purple robe, lined with yellow satin, scarlet satin vest, edged with white ermine, aud coronet for the head. Third dress: Kelt, tartan, cap, and armour.

MALCOLM.—Scarlet and green plaid vest, kelt, tartan, breast-plate, cap aud fda. thers.

KING.—Crimson velvet robe and vest richly embroidered.

BANQUO—Green plaid vest, kilt and tartan, breast-plate and cap.

MACDUFF.—Ibid.

LENOX.—Red and blue—Ibid.

ROSSE.—Blue and crimson—Ibid.

SIWARD.—scarlet velvet doublet, trunks and clonk, breast-plate, hat and feathers.

SEYTON.—Green plaid vest, kelt, and tartan, cap and feathers.

PHYSICIAN.—Black velvet doubjet. trunks, cloak, &c.

SERJEANT.—Green and red plaid vest, kelt, and tartan, cap, &c.

MURDERERS.—Green worsted plaid dresses.

LADY MACBETH.—First dress: Black velvet, trimmed with point race, ana plaid sarsnet scarf. Second dress: White satin, trimmed with silver, and scarlet cloth robe, trimmed with ermine and silver; coronet for the bead. Third dress: White muslin morning wrapper, trimmed with lace, and a veil.—Ibid.

GENTLEWOMAN.—Green satin dress trimmed with silver, and spangled veil.

HECATE.—Blue vest, with stars, shaded by blue gauze, robe of do., and cap' mented with snakes.

WITCHES.—Similar, in some respects,.but exceedingly grotesque.

EXITS AND ENTRANCES.

R. means Right; 1. Left: R. D. Right Door; L. D. Left Door; &. E. Second Entrance; U. E. Upper Entrance; M. D. Middle Door.

RELATIVE POSITIONS. •

R., means Right; L., Left; C., Centre; R. C., Right of Centre; L. C., Left of Centre.

MACBETH.

ACT I.

Scene I.—The Open Country —Thunder and Lightning. Three Witches discovered.

1st Witch. When shall we three meet again— In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

2d Witch. When the hurly-hurly's done, When the battle's* lost and won.

3d Witch. That will be ere set of sun.

1st Witch. Where the place?

2d Witch. Upon the heath.

3d Witch. There to meet with—

1st Witch. Whom?,

2d Witch. Macbeth. f Noise of a Cat.

1st Witch. I come, Gray-malkin. [Noise of a Toad.

2d Witch. Paddock calls.

1st Witch. Anon.

ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.

[Thunder and Lightning.—Exeunt severally.

Scene II.—The Palace at Fores.—Flourish of Trumpets and Drums, L.

Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbaw, Lenox, K.osse, and Attendants, L., meeting a bleeding OffiCer, R.

King, (c.) What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.

Mal. This is the serjeant,
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.

Off. Doubtfully it stood;

As two spent swimmers, that do cling together,
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald
From the western isles
Of Kernes and Gallow-glasses is supplied;
And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Showed like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),
Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion,

Carved out his passage, till he faced the slave;
And ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.

King. Oh, valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

Off. Mark, King of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had, with valour armed,
Compelled these skipping Kernes to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord, surveying-vantage,
With furbished arms, and new supplies of men,
Began a fresh assault.

King. Dismayed not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Off. Yes;

As sparrows, eagles; or the hare, the lion.—
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

King. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds; They smack of honour both :—Go, get him surgeons.

[Exeunt Officer and two Attendants, L. Who comes here?

Mal. The worthy Thane of Fife.

Len. What a haste looks through his eyes!

Rosse. So should he look,
That seems to speak things strange.

Enter Macdufp, R.
Macd. God save the King!

Ring. Whence earnest thou, worthy Thane?

Macd. From Fife, great King,
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky,
And fan our people cold.
Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor,
The Thane of Cawdor, 'gan a dismal conflict,
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof,*
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.—

King, Great happiness!

Macd. That now

Sweno, the Norway's king, craves composition ;
Nor would we deign him burial of his men,
Till he disbursed, at St. Colmes' Inch,
Ten thousand dollars for our general use.

King. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest;—Go, pronounce his present death, And with his former titles greet Macbeth.

Macd. I'll see it done. [Exeunt Macdvjf'and Lenox, R.

King. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. [Flourish of Trumpets amd Drums —Exeunt, L.

Scene III.—A Heath.— Bridge in the background, over the Mountains.—Thunder and Lightning.

Enter the Three Witches, meeting.

1st Witch. Where hast thou been, sister?

Zd Witch. Killing swine.

3d Witch. Sister, where thou?

1st Witch. A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap, And mounched, and mounched, and mounched :—" Give

me," quoth I.

"Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyonf cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger;
But in a sieve Pl thither sail,
And like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, I'll do.

2d Witch. I'll give thee a wind.

"Inclosed in armour of proof. t Begone. j Fat, bulky woman.