1+ y�---
2+ Act I, Scene
3+
4+ A desert place.
5+ ---
6+
7+ First Witch. When shall we three meet again
8+ In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
9+ Second Witch. When the hurlyburly's done,
10+ When the battle's lost and won.
11+ Third Witch. That will be ere the set of sun.
12+ First Witch. Where the place?
13+ Second Witch. Upon the heath.
14+ Third Witch. There to meet with Macbeth.
15+ First Witch. I come, Graymalkin!
16+ Second Witch. Paddock calls.
17+ Third Witch. Anon.
18+ All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
19+ Hover through the fog and filthy air.
20+
21+ ---
22+ Act I, Scene
23+
24+ A camp near Forres.
25+ ---
26+
27+ Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can report,
28+ As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
29+ The newest state.
30+ Malcolm. This is the sergeant
31+ Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
32+ 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
33+ Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
34+ As thou didst leave it.
35+ Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;
36+ As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
37+ And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald-
38+ Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
39+ The multiplying villanies of nature
40+ Do swarm upon him-from the western isles
41+ Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
42+ And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
43+ Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
44+ For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-
45+ Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
46+ Which smoked with bloody execution,
47+ Like valour's minion carved out his passage
48+ Till he faced the slave;
49+ Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
50+ Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
51+ And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
52+ Duncan. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
53+ Sergeant. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
54+ Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
55+ So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
56+ Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
57+ No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
58+ Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
59+ But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
60+ With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
61+ Began a fresh assault.
62+ Duncan. Dismay'd not this
63+ Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
64+ Sergeant. Yes;
65+ As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
66+ If I say sooth, I must report they were
67+ As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
68+ Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
69+ Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
70+ Or memorise another Golgotha,
71+ I cannot tell.
72+ But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
73+ Duncan. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
74+ They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
75+ [Exit Sergeant, attended]
76+ Who comes here?
77+ [Enter ROSS]
78+
79+ Malcolm. The worthy thane of Ross.
80+ Lennox. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
81+ That seems to speak things strange.
82+ Ross. God save the king!
83+ Duncan. Whence camest thou, worthy thane?
84+ Ross. From Fife, great king;
85+ Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
86+ And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
87+ With terrible numbers,
88+ Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
89+ The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
90+ Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
91+ Confronted him with self-comparisons,
92+ Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
93+ Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
94+ The victory fell on us.
95+ Duncan. Great happiness!
96+ Ross. That now
97+ Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
98+ Nor would we deign him burial of his men
99+ Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
100+ Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
101+ Duncan. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
102+ Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
103+ And with his former title greet Macbeth.
104+ Ross. I'll see it done.
105+ Duncan. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.
106+ [Exeunt]
107+
108+ ---
109+ Act I, Scene
110+
111+ A heath near Forres.
112+
113+ ---
114+ [Thunder. Enter the three Witches]
115+
116+ First Witch. Where hast thou been, sister?
117+ Second Witch. Killing swine.
118+ Third Witch. Sister, where thou?
119+ First Witch. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
120+ And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-
121+ 'Give me,' quoth I:
122+ 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
123+ Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
124+ Buty� in a sieve I'll thither sail,
125+ And, like a rat without a tail,
126+ I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
127+ Second Witch. I'll give thee a wind.
128+ First Witch. Thou'rt kind.
129+ Third Witch. And I another.
130+ First Witch. I myself have all the other,
131+ And the very ports they blow,
132+ All the quarters that they know
133+ I' the shipman's card.
134+ I will drain him dry as hay:
135+ Sleep shall neither night nor day
136+ Hang upon his pent-house lid;
137+ He shall live a man forbid:
138+ Weary se'nnights nine times nine
139+ Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
140+ Though his bark cannot be lost,
141+ Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
142+ Look what I have.
143+ Second Witch. Show me, show me.
144+ First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb,
145+ Wreck'd as homeward he did come.
146+ [Drum within]
147+
148+ Third Witch. A drum, a drum!
149+ Macbeth doth come.
150+ All. The weird sisters, hand in hand,
151+ Posters of the sea and land,
152+ Thus do go about, about:
153+ Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
154+ And thrice again, to make up nine.
155+ Peace! the charm's wound up.
156+ [Enter MACBETH and BANQUO]
157+
158+ Macbeth. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
159+ Banquo. How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
160+ So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
161+ That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
162+ And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
163+ That man may question? You seem to understand me,
164+ By each at once her chappy finger laying
165+ Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
166+ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
167+ That you are so.
168+ Macbeth. Speak, if you can: what are you?
169+ First Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
170+ Second Witch. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
171+ Third Witch. All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
172+ Banquo. Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
173+ Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
174+ Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
175+ Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
176+ You greet with present grace and great prediction
177+ Of noble having and of royal hope,
178+ That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
179+ If you can look into the seeds of time,
180+ And say which grain will grow and which will not,
181+ Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
182+ Your favours nor your hate.
183+ First Witch. Hail!
184+ Second Witch. Hail!
185+ Third Witch. Hail!
186+ First Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
187+ Second Witch. Not so happy, yet much happier.
188+ Third Witch. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
189+ So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
190+ First Witch. Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
191+ Macbeth. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
192+ By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;
193+ But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
194+ A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
195+ Stands not within the prospect of belief,
196+ No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
197+ You owe this strange intelligence? or why
198+ Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
199+ With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
200+ [Witches vanish]
201+
202+ Banquo. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
203+ And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?
204+ Macbeth. Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted
205+ As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
206+ Banquo. Were such things here as we do speak about?
207+ Or have we eaten on the insane root
208+ That takes the reason prisoner?
209+ Macbeth. Your children shall be kings.
210+ Banquo. You shall be king.
211+ Macbeth. And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?
212+ Banquo. To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?
213+ [Enter ROSS and ANGUS]
214+
215+ Ross. The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
216+ The news of thy success; and when he reads
217+ Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
218+ His wonders and his praises do contend
219+ Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
220+ In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
221+ He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
222+ Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
223+ Strange images of death. As thick as hail
224+ Came post with post; and every one did bear
225+ Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
226+ And pour'd them down before him.
227+ Angus. We are sent
228+ To give thee from our royal master thanks;
229+ Only to herald thee into his sight,
230+ Not pay thee.
231+ Ross. And, for an eary �nest of a greater honour,
232+ He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
233+ In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
234+ For it is thine.
235+ Banquo. What, can the devil speak true?
236+ Macbeth. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
237+ In borrow'd robes?
238+ Angus. Who was the thane lives yet;
239+ But under heavy judgment bears that life
240+ Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
241+ With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
242+ With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
243+ He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;
244+ But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
245+ Have overthrown him.
246+ Macbeth. [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
247+ The greatest is behind.
248+ [To ROSS and ANGUS]
249+ Thanks for your pains.
250+ [To BANQUO]
251+ Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
252+ When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
253+ Promised no less to them?
254+ Banquo. That trusted home
255+ Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
256+ Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:
257+ And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
258+ The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
259+ Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
260+ In deepest consequence.
261+ Cousins, a word, I pray you.
262+ Macbeth. [Aside]. Two truths are told,
263+ As happy prologues to the swelling act
264+ Of the imperial theme.-I thank you, gentlemen.
265+ [Aside] This supernatural soliciting]
266+ Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
267+ Why hath it given me earnest of success,
268+ Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
269+ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
270+ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
271+ And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
272+ Against the use of nature? Present fears
273+ Are less than horrible imaginings:
274+ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
275+ Shakes so my single state of man that function
276+ Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
277+ But what is not.
278+ Banquo. Look, how our partner's rapt.
279+ Macbeth. [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
280+ Without my stir.
281+ Banquo. New horrors come upon him,
282+ Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
283+ But with the aid of use.
284+ Macbeth. [Aside] Come what come may,
285+ Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
286+ Banquo. Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
287+ Macbeth. Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought
288+ With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
289+ Are register'd where every day I turn
290+ The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
291+ Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,
292+ The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak
293+ Our free hearts each to other.
294+ Banquo. Very gladly.
295+ Macbeth. Till then, enough. Come, friends.
296+ �
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