And the twin Dromio, all were taken up; Duke. Why, here begins his morning story right; Ant. S. No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse. Duke. Stay, stand apart! I know not which is which. [lord. Ant. E. I came from Corinth, my most gracious Dro. E. And I with him. Ant. E. Brought to this town by that most famous warrior Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. . Adr. And are not you my husband? Ant. E. No, I say nay to that. Ant. S. And so do I, yet did she call me so; And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here, Did call me brother:-What I told you then, I hope, I shall have leisure to make good; If this be not a dream, I see, and hear. Ang. That is the chain, sir, which you had of me. Ant. S. I think it be, sir; I deny it not. Ant. E. And you, sir, for this chain arrested me. Ang. I think I did, sir; I deny it not. Adr. I sent you money, sir, to be your bail, By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. Dro. E. No, none by me. Ant. S. This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you, And Dromio, my man, did bring them me : I see, we still did meet each other's man, And I was ta'en for him, and he for me, And thereupon these Errors are arose. Ant. E. These ducats pawn I for my father here. Duke. It shall not need, thy father hath his life. Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you. Ant. E. There, take it, and much thanks for my good cheer. Abb. Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains To go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes: Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd? [Centaur. Dro. S. Your goods, that lay at host, sir, in the Ant. S. He speaks to me; I am your master, Dromio: Come, go with us: we'll look to that anon: Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. [Exeunt Antipholus S. and E., Adr. and Luc. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner; She now shall be my sister, not my wife. Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother. SCENE, in the End of the Fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Castle. Do swarm upon him,) from the western isles Cary'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave; Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sold. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break; So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No sooner justice had, with valour arm'd, Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heels: But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, With furbish'd arms, and new supplies of men, Began a fresh assault. Dun. Dismay'd not this Who comes here? Mal. The worthy thane of Rosse. Len. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look, That seems to speak things strange. Rosse. Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, Norway himself, with terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, 'gan a dismal conflict: Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, Dun. Rosse. That now Great happiness! Thunder. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sister, where thou? 1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap, And mounch'd, and moanch'd, and mounch'd: Give me, quoth J: Aroint thee, witch! the ramp-fed ronyon cries. And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind. 1 Witch. Thou art kind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other; And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I'the shipman's card. I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall, neither night nor day, Hang upon his pent-house lid; 2 Witch. Show me, show me. 1 Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd, as homeward he did come. [Drum within. 3 Witch. A drum, a drum; Macbeth doth come. All. The weird sisters, hand in hand, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, Enter Macbeth and Banquo. Macb. So foul and fair a day I have not seen. Ban. How far is't call'd to Fores?-What are these? So wither'd, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o'the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you anght That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips: You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. Mach. Speak, if you can ;-What are you? 1 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis ! [Cawdor! 2 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of 3 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter. Things that do sound so fair?-1'the name of truth, Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner That he seems rapt withal; to me you speak not: 1 Witch. Hail! 2 Witch. Hail! 3 Witch. Hail ! 1 Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. 2 Witch. Not so happy, yet much happier. 3 Witch. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be So, all hail, Macbeth, and Banquo! [none; 1 Witch. Banquo, and Macbeth, all hail! Mach. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: By Sinel's death, I know, I am thane of Glamis ! But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be king, Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whence You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting?-Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them: Whither are they vanish'd? Macb. Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, melted As breath into the wind.-'Would they had staid! Enter Rosse and Angus. Rosse. The king hath happily receiv'd, Macbeth, The news of thy success: and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels' light, His wonders and his praises do contend, Which should be thine, or his: Silene'd with that, Ang. We are sent, To give thee, from our royal master, thanks; To herald thee into his sight, not pay thee. Rosse. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: In which addition hail, most worthy thane ! For it is thine. Ban. What, can the devil speak true? Macb. The thane of Cawdor lives; Why do you In borrow'd robes? [dress me Ang. Who was the thane, lives yet; But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was Combin'd with Norway; or did line the rebel With hidden help and vantage; or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not: But treasons capital, confess'd, and prov'd, Have overthrown him. Macb. Glamis, the thane of Cawdor: The greatest is behind.-Thanks for your pains.Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me, Promis'd no less to them? Ban. That, trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb. Two truths are told, Cannot be ill; cannot be good: If ill, My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Ban. To overtake thee. 'Would thou hadst less deserv'd; Dun. Are to your throne and state, children, and servants; The harvest is your own. Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter, Macb. The rest is labour, which is not us'd for you: Dun. It is a banquet to me. Let us after him. SCENE V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth's Castle. Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a Letter. Lady M. They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves-air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood Look, how our partner's rapt. Macb. If chance will have me king, why, chance Without my stir. [may crown me, Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Ban, Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the Macb. Give me your favour :-my dull brain was wrought With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains The leaf to read them.-Let us toward the king.- Ban. Very gladly. Macb. Till then, enough.-Come, friends. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Fores. A Room in the Palace. Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lenox, and Attendants. Dun. Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Mal. Dun. Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, and Angus. king, who all-hailed me, Thane of Cawdor; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with, Hail, king that shalt be! This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness; that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be That which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it; Attend. The king comes here to-night. Attend. So please you, it is true; our thane is One of my fellows had the speed of him; [coming: Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. Lady M. You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter ! Macb. My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. Lady M. And when goes hence? Macb. To-morrow, -as he purposes. Lady M. Shall sun that morrow see! O, never Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men But be the serpent under it. He that's coming To alter favour ever is to fear: Only look up clear; [Exeunt. In every point twice done, and then done double, Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, Dun. Give me your hand: Conduct me to mine host; we love him highly, [Exeunt. SCENE VII. The same. A Room in the Castle. Hautboys and Torches. Enter, and pass over the Stage, a Sewer, and divers Servants with Dishes and Service. Then enter Macbeth. Macb. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere It were done quickly: If the assassination [well Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.-But, in these cases, We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsmau and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.-I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other.-How now, what news? Enter Lady Macbeth. Lady M. He has almost supp'd; Why have you left Macb. Hath he ask'd for me! [the chamber! Lady M. Know you not, he has? Macb. We will proceed no further in this business : He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such 1 account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i'the adage? Macb. Pr'ythee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. If we should fail,——— Lady M. What beast was it then, That made you break this enterprise to me? And, to be more than what you were, you would When you durst do it, then you were a man ; Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck; and know How tender 'tis, to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this. Macb. Lady M. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep, (Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him,) his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassel so convince, That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only: When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?' Macb We fail! Bring forth men-children only! For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be received, When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two Of his own chamber, and us'd their very daggers, That they have don't? All's well. I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: So I lose none, I shall be counsel'd. [Exit. SCENE II. The same. Enter Lady Macbeth. Lady M. That which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold: [-Peace! What hath quench'd them, hath given me fire:--Hark! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good night. He is about it: The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Macb. [Within.] Who's there?-what, ho! Lady M. Alack! I am afraid they have awak'd, Confounds us :- Hark!-I laid their daggers ready, And 'tis not done :-the attempt, and not the deed, He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had don't.-My husband! Enter Macbeth. Macbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Macb. Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Is this a dagger, which I see before me, To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but I see thee yet, in form as palpable, As this which now I draw. Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going; Mine eyes are made the fools o'the other senses, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, [A Bell rings. I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell, That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast; Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more! to all the house: Glamis hath murder'd sleep; and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more! Lady M. Who was it that thus cried? Why, wor thy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think Macb. I'll go no more: Lady M. Macb. Making the green-one red. Re-enter Lady Macbeth. Lady M. My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white. [Knock.] I hear a knocking [Exit. At the south entry:-retire we to our chamber: |