MACBETH                  And thence it is That I to your assistance do make love, Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons. SECOND MURDERER            We shall, my lord, Perform what you command us. FIRST MURDERER                Though our lives— MACBETH      Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most I will advise you […]

MACBETH                  Both of you Know Banquo was your enemy. MURDERERS  True, my lord. MACBETH      So is he mine, and in such bloody distance That every minute of his being thrusts Against my near’st of life; and, though I could With bare-faced power sweep him from my sight And bid my will avouch it, yet I […]

MACBETH      Now, if you have a station in the file Not i’th’ worst rank of manhood, say’t; And I will put that business in your bosoms Whose execution takes your enemy off, Grapples you to the heart and love of us, Who wear our health but sickly in his life, Which in his death were […]

MACBETH      Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. The valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed; […]

FIRST MURDERER                You made it known to us. MACBETH      I did so, and went further, which is now Our point of second meeting. Do you find Your patience so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled To pray for this good man and for his issue, Whose heavy […]

MACBETH                              Who’s there? Enter Servant and two Murderers [To Servant] Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. Exit Servant Was it not yesterday we spoke together? MURDERERS  It was, so please your highness. MACBETH      Well then, now Have you considered of my speeches? Know That it was he, in the times […]

MACBETH                  If’t be so, For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered, Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come […]

MACBETH                              He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him. Then, prophet-like, They hailed him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my grip Thence to be wrenched with an […]

MACBETH                  To be thus is nothing But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be feared. ’Tis much he dares, And to that dauntless temper of his mind He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety. There […]

MACBETH      Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night. To make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper time alone. While then, God be with you. Exeunt [Lady,] lords, [and attendants. Macbeth and a Servant remain] Sirrah, a word with you. Attend those men our pleasure? SERVANT       They […]