Or show the glory of our art? And, which is worse, all you have done Spiteful, and wrathful; who, as others do, Meet me i' the morning; thither he Your vessels, and your spells, provide, Great business must be wrought ere noon: There hangs a vaporous drop profound; Is mortal's chiefest enemy. Song. [Within.] Come away, come away, &c. Hark, I am called; my little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. again. 1 Witch. Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back [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, Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan Whom you may say, if it please you, Fleance killed, It was for Malcolm and Donalbain, To kill their gracious father? Damned fact! In pious rage, the two delinquents tear, 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 Macduff lives in disgrace. Sir, can you tell Lord. Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights; Len. Sent he to Macduff? Lord. He did; and with an absolute, Sir, not I, And hums; as who should say, You'll rue the time Len. Lord. I'll send my prayers with him! [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron, boiling. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed. 1 Witch. Round about the caldron go; In the poisoned entrails throw. All. Double, double toil and trouble; 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf; Witch's mummy; maw and gulf Of the ravined salt-sea shark; Gall of goat; and slips of yew, Fire, burn; and, caldron, bubble. 2 Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Enter HECATE and the other three Witches. Hec. O, well done! I commend your pains; SONG. Black spirits and white, You that mingle may. 2 Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Enter МАСВЕТН. Macb. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do? All. A deed without a name. Macb. I cónjure you, by that which you profess, Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down; Though castles totter on their warders' heads; Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken,- answer me To what I ask you. 1 Witch. 2 Witch. 3 Witch. Speak. Demand. We'll answer. 1 Witch. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters'? Macb. 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. Macb. Tell me, thou unknown power,1 Witch. He knows thy thought; Hear his speech, but say thou nought. Macb. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harped 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. Macb. Had I three ears, I'd hear thee. Be bloody, bold, And resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth. [Descends. Macb. 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, That I may tell pale-hearted fear, it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder.- What is this, 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 to't. App. Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Macb. [Descends. That will never be; Who can impress the forest; bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good! |