Faculty of English

MACBETH      [To the Ghost] How say you? — Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. [Exit Ghost] LADY              What, quite unmanned in folly? MACBETH      If I stand here, I saw him. LADY              […]

LADY              [aside to Macbeth] O, proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make […]

ROSS               Gentlemen, rise. His highness is not well. LADY              Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth. Pray you keep seat. The fit is momentary. Upon a thought He will again be well. If much you note him, You shall offend him and extend his passion. Feed, and […]

ROSS                           Please’t your highness To grace us with your royal company? MACBETH                              The table’s full. LENNOX         Here is a place reserved, sir. MACBETH      Where? LENNOX                     Here, my good lord. [Macbeth sees the Ghost] What is’t that moves your highness? MACBETH      Which of you have done this? LORDS            What, my good lord? MACBETH      [to the Ghost] Thou […]

Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth’s place MACBETH      Sweet remembrancer! Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! LENNOX         May’t please your highness sit? MACBETH      Here had we now our country’s honour roofed Were the graced person of our Banquo present, Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity […]

MACBETH      There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for th’ present. Get thee gone. Tomorrow We’ll hear ourselves again. Exit Murderer LADY                          My royal lord, You do not give the cheer. The feast is sold That is not often vouched, while ’tis a-making, […]

MACBETH      Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing air; But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe? MURDERER    Ay, my good lord; safe in a ditch he bides, […]

Enter First Murderer MACBETH      See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks. Both sides are even; here I’ll sit i’th’ midst. Be large in mirth. Anon we’ll drink a measure The table round. [To First Murderer] There’s blood upon thy face. MURDERER                ’Tis Banquo’s then. MACBETH      ’Tis better thee without than he within. Is he dispatched? MURDERER    […]

Banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth, Lady, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and attendants MACBETH      You know your own degrees; sit down. At first and last, the hearty welcome. LORDS            Thanks to your majesty. MACBETH      Ourself will mingle with society And play the humble host. Our hostess keeps her state, But in best time we will require her welcome. […]

[The First Murderer strikes out the torch. The Second and Third Murderers attack Banquo] BANQUO        O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. [Exit Fleance] O slave! [He dies] THIRD MURDERER   Who did strike out the light? FIRST MURDERER    Was’t not the way? THIRD MURDERER   There’s but one down; the son is […]