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Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that heaven knows what she has known. Lady M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!

Doct. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.

Gent. I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. Doct. Well, well, well.

Gent. Pray God it be, sir.

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Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds.

Lady M. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Doct. Even so?

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Enter, with drum and colours, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers.

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Geese, villain! Serv. Soldiers, sit. Mach. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,

Ment. The English power is near, led on by Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, paten!

Malcolm,

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Ment. What does the tyrant? Caith. Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies. Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him Do call it valiant fury; but, for certain, He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of rule.

Ang. Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands; Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love; now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

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Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thire Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey

face?

Serv. The English force, so please you. Macb. Take thy face hence. Erit Servant When I behold-Seyton, I say!--This push » Seyton!-I am sick at heart Will cheer me ever or disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,

Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare Seyton!

not.

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thou of them?

Hear'st

Doct. Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation Makes us hear something.

Mach.

Bring it after me.

I will not be afraid of death and bane
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.

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Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with
horrors;

Doct. Aside. Were I from Dunsinane away Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, and clear,

Profit again should hardly draw me here.

Exeunt.

SCENE IV.-Country near Birnam Wood. Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, old SIWARD and his Son, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, Ross, and Soldiers, marching.

Mal. Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand

That chambers will be safe.

Ment.

Siw. What wood is this before us?
Ment.

The wood of Birnam.

Cannot once start me.

Re-enter SEYTON.

Wherefore was that cry?

Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead.
Macb. She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.

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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief
candle!

We doubt it nothing. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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SCENE VI.-The Same. A Plain before the
Castle.

Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, MACDUFF, etc., and their Army, with boughs.

Mal. Now, near enough; your leavy screens throw down,

And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,
Lead our first battle; worthy Macduff and we
Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,
According to our order.

Siw.
Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.

Macd. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,

Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.

Excunt.

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Macd.
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
Macb. Of all men else I have avoided thee:

But get thee back, my soul is too much charg'ċ
With blood of thine already.

Macd.

I have no words;
My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out! They Right
Macb.
Thou losest labour:
As easy may'st thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.

Macd.
Despair thy charm:
And let the angel whom thou still hast serv'd
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's wonb
Untimely ripp'd.

Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells mese
For it hath cow'd my better part of man:
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
Macd. Then yield thee, coward,

And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted upon a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the tyrant.'
Mach.

I will not yield. To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou oppos'd, being of no woman born, a Yet I will try the last: before my body

I throw my war-like shield. And damn'd be him that

enough!'

Lay on, Macduff, first cries 'Hold, Exeunt, fighting. Retreat. Flourish. Re-enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, ROSS, Thanes, and Soldiers.

Mal. I would the friends we miss were safe arriv'd.

Siw. Some must go off; and yet, by these I see, So great a day as this is cheaply bought.

Mal. Macduff is missing, and your noble son. Ross. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:

He only liv'd but till he was a man ;

The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd In the unshrinking station where he fought, 71

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Ross. Ay, on the front. Siw.

They say, he parted well, and paid his score: And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.

Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head. Macd. Hail, king! for so thou art. Behold, where stands

The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine;
Hail, King of Scotland!
All.

Hail, King of Scotland!
Flourish.

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Mal. We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and
kinsmen,

Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour nam'd. What's more to do
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exil'd friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers

Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,

Why then, God's soldier be he! Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands Had I as many sons as I have hairs,

I would not wish them to a fairer death: And so, his knell is knoll'd.

Mal.

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Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
We will perform in measure, time, and place:
He's worth more sorrow, So thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.
Flourish. Exeunt.

And that I'll spend for him. Siw.

He's worth no more; so

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Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and Attendants.

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Fran. Nay, answer me; stand, and unfold yourself.

Ber. Long live the king!

Fran. Bernardo?

Ber. He.

Fran. You come most carefully upon your hour.

Ber. 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.

Fran. For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,

And I am sick at heart.

Ber. Have you had quiet guard?
Fran.

Not a mouse stirring. 10 Ber. Well, good night.

If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,

The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Fran. I think I hear them.

Stand, ho!

Who's there?

Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS.

Hor. Friends to this ground.

Mar.

Ber. Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good Mar cellus.

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Mar. What has this thing appear'd again | to-night?

Ber. I have seen nothing.

Mar. Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us:
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night;
That if again this apparition come,
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
Hor. Tush, tush! 'twill not appear.
Ber.
Sit down awhile,
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story,
What we two nights have seen.

Hor.

Well, sit we dont
And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
Ber. Last night of all,

When yond same star that's westward from the
pole

And liegemen to the Dane. Had made his course to illume that part of

Fran. Give you good night.

heaven

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