Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark; Root of hemlock, digg'd i'the dark; Gall of goat, and slips of yew, All. Double, double toil and trouble; 2 Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Enter Hecate, to the other three Witches. And now about the caldron sing, Enchanting all that you put in, [Musick. SONG. Black spirits and white, You that mingle may. 2 Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:-Open, locks, whoever knocks. Enter Macbeth. Mac. How now, you secret, black, and midnight What is't All. hags? A deed without a name. Mac. I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Their heads to their foundations; though the trea sure Of nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken, answer me 1 Witch. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters'? Mac. Call them, let me see them. 1 Witch. Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow; grease, that's sweaten From the murderer's gibbet, throw Into the flame. All. Come, high, or low; Thyself, and office, deftly show. Thunder. An Apparition of an armed head rises. Mac. Tell me, thou unknown power, 1 Witch. He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought. App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Beware the thane of Fife.-Dismiss me:-Enough. [descends. Mac. What-e'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harp'd my fear aright:-But one word more: 1 Witch. He will not be commanded: Here's another, More potent than the first. Thunder. An Apparition of a bloody child rises. App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Mac. Had I three ears, I'd hear thee. App. Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn power of man; for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. The [descends. Mac. Then live, Macduff; What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; Thunder. An Apparition of a child crowned, with a tree in his hand, rises. That rises like the issue of a king; And wears upon his baby brow the round And top of sovereignty? All. Listen, but speak not. App. Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Mac. [descends. That will never be: Who can impress the forest; bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? sweet bodements! good! Rebellious head, rise never, till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac'd Macbeth All. Seek to know no more. Mac. I will be satisfied: deny me this, And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know:Why sinks that caldron? and what noise is this? [Hautboys. 1 Witch. Show! 2 Witch. Show! 3 Witch. Show! All. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart. Eight kings appear, and pass over the stage in order; the last, with a glass in his hand: Banquo following. Mac. Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down! Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls:-And thy hair, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first:- Why do you show me this?-A fourth?-Start, eyes! What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Another yet?-A seventh?-I'll see no more:- 1 Witch. Ay, sir, all this is so:-But why [Musick. The Witches dance, and vanish. Mac. Where are they? Gone?-Let this perni cious hour |