MACBETH                  Come in, without there! Enter Lennox LENNOX         What’s your grace’s will? MACBETH      Saw you the weyard sisters? LENNOX         No, my lord. MACBETH      Came they not by you? LENNOX         No indeed, my lord. MACBETH      Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damned all those that trust them! I did hear The galloping of horse. […]

MACBETH                  What, is this so? FIRST WITCH            Ay, sir, all this is so. But why Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites, And show the best of our delights. I’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round, That this great king may kindly say Our […]

MACBETH      Another yet?—A seventh? I’ll see no more.— And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass Which shows me many more; and some I see That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry. Horrible sight! Now I see ’tis true, For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me, And points at them for his. [Exeunt Banquo […]

Hautboys MACBETH      Why sinks that cauldron? And what noise is this? FIRST WITCH  Show. SECOND WITCH                    Show. THIRD WITCH                                   Show. ALL WITCHES            Show his eyes, and grieve his heart. Come like shadows; so depart. A show of eight kings, [the] last with a glass in his hand, and Banquo MACBETH      Thou art too like […]

MACBETH                  That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements good! Rebellious dead, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart Throbs to know one […]

Thunder. [Enter] Third Apparition, a child crowned, with a tree in his hand MACBETH                  What is this, That rises like the issue of a king, And wears upon his baby brow the round And top of sovereignty? ALL WITCHES            Listen, but speak not to’t. THIRD APPARITION  Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, […]

FIRST WITCH            Here’s another More potent than the first. Thunder. [Enter] Second Apparition, a bloody child SECOND APPARITION          Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth! MACBETH      Had I three ears I’d hear thee. SECOND APPARITION          Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. Descends MACBETH      Then live, […]

Thunder. [Enter] First Apparition, an armed head MACBETH      Tell me, thou unknown power— FIRST WITCH            He knows thy thought. Hear his speech, but say thou naught. FIRST APPARITION  Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. He descends MACBETH      Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution thanks. Thou hast harped […]

FIRST WITCH            Speak. SECOND WITCH                    Demand. THIRD WITCH                                   We’ll answer. FIRST WITCH            Say if thoud’st rather hear it from our mouths Or from our masters’. MACBETH      Call ’em. Let me see ’em. FIRST WITCHPour in sow’s blood that hath eaten Her nine farrow. Grease that’s sweaten From the murderer’s gibbet throw Into the flame. ALL […]

Enter Macbeth MACBETH      How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is’t you do? ALL WITCHES            A deed without a name. MACBETH      I conjure you by that which you profess, Howe’er you come to know it, answer me. Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches, though the yeasty waves […]