Enter Ross and Angus ROSS               The King hath happily received, Macbeth, The news of thy success; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or his. Silenced with that, In viewing o’er the rest o’th’ self-same day He finds thee in […]

BANQUO         The earth hath bubbles as the water has, And these are of them. Whither are they vanished? MACBETH      Into the air; and what seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Would they had stayed! BANQUO         Were such things here as we do speak about, Or have we eaten on the insane root That […]

MACBETH      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 own this strange intelligence, […]

BANQUO                                             To me you speak not.                                         If you can look into the seeds of time                                       […]

FIRST WITCH            All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! SECOND WITCH        All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! THIRD WITCH           All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! BANQUO                     Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? [To the Witches] I’th’ name of truth, […]

Enter Macbeth and Banquo MACBETH      [to Banquo] So foul and fair a day I have not seen. BANQUO         How far is’t called to Forres?—What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’ earth And yet are on’t? [To the Witches] Live you, or are you aught That man may question? […]

FIRST WITCH            Look what I have. SECOND WITCH        Show me, show me. FIRST WITCH            Here I have a pilot’s thumb, Wrecked as homeward he did come. Drum within THIRD WITCH           A drum, a drum. Macbeth doth come. ALL WITCHES            The weyard sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, […]

SECOND WITCH        I’ll give thee a wind. FIRST WITCH            Thou’rt kind. THIRD WITCH           And I another. FIRST WITCH            I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I’th’ ship-man’s card. I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse […]

Thunder. Enter the three Witches FIRST WITCH            Where hast thou been, sister? SECOND WITCH        Killing swine. THIRD WITCH           Sister, where thou? FIRST WITCH            A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched, and munched, and munched. ‘Give me!’ quoth I. ‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed runnion cries. Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ […]

ROSS               Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursèd at St Columb’s Inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. KING               No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. ROSS             […]