SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the Eng lish Forces. YOUNG SIWARD, his Son. SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An old Man. LADY MACBETH. LADY MACDuff. Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. HECATE, and three Witches. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. The Ghost of Banquo, and several other Apparitions. SCENE, in the end of the Fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth's Castle. (198) MACBETH. ACT I. SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. 1 Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. 3 Witch. That will be ere set of sun. 1 Witch. Where the place? 2 Witch. Upon the heath; 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin! All. Paddock calls;-Anon. Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air. [Witches vanish. SCENE II. A Camp near Fores. Alarum within. Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier. Dun. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Mal. This is the sergeant, Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought Sold. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together, And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles Like valor's minion, Carved out his passage, till he faced the slave; Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Compelled these skipping Kernes to trust their heels, With furbished arms, and new supplies of men, Dun. Dismayed not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sold. Yes; As sparrows, eagles; or the hare, the lion. Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe; . Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell: But I am faint; my gashes cry for help. Dun. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds They smack of honor both.-Go, get him surgeons. Who comes here? Mal. [Exit Soldier, attended. Enter ROSSE. The worthy thane of Rosse. Len. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look, That seems to speak things strange. Rosse. God save the king! Dun. Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane? From Fife, great king, Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, Norway himself, with terrible numbers, The thane of Cawdor, 'gan a dismal conflict; Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, Dun. Rosse. That now Great happiness! Sweno, the Norway's king, craves composition; Nor would we deign him burial of his men, Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes' Inch, Ten thousand dollars to our general use. Dun. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest.- Go, pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. Rosse. I'll see it done. Dun. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. Enter the three Witches. 1 Witch. Where hast thou been, sister? 2 Witch. Killing swine. 3 Witch. Sister, where thou? [Exeunt. 1 Witch. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And mounched, and mounched, and mounched. Give me, quoth I; Aroint thee, witch! the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger; But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind. 1 Witch. Thou art kind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other; And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know |