Enter Macbeth MACBETH      Who’s there? What ho! LADY              Alack, I am afraid they have awaked And ’tis not done. Th’attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss ’em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t.—My husband! MACBETH      I have done the […]

Enter Lady LADY              That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, 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. […]

MACBETH                  Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. A bell rings I […]

MACBETH                  Now o’er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate’s off’rings; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf, Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.                (2.1.49-56)   The (in)visible dagger might be […]

MACBETH      I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshal’st me the way that I was going, And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o’th’ other senses, Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still, And on thy blade […]

MACBETH      Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Exit [servant] Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, […]

BANQUO        I dreamt last night of the three weyard sisters. To you they have showed some truth. MACBETH      I think not of them. Yet when we can entreat an hour to serve, We would spend it in some words upon that business If you would grant the time. BANQUO                                At your kind’st leisure. MACBETH      […]

Enter Macbeth, and a servant with a torch BANQUO        Give me my sword.—Who’s there? MACBETH                              A friend. BANQUO        What, sir, not yet at rest? The King’s a-bed. He hath been in unusual pleasure, and Sent forth great largess to your offices. This diamond he greets your wife withal, [He gives Macbeth the jewel] By the […]

Enter Banquo, and Fleance with a torch before him BANQUO        How goes the night, boy? FLEANCE        The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. BANQUO        And she goes down at twelve. FLEANCE        I take’t ’tis later, sir. BANQUO        Hold, take my sword. There’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Take thee […]

MACBETH      Bring forth men children only, For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be received, When we have marked with blood those sleepy two Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, That they have done’t? LADY                          Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and […]