: 332 Ach IV. L. Macd. Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father? Son. Nay, how will you do for a husband? Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st' my dread ex- L. Macd. Why, I can buy me twenty at any ploits : market. Son. Then you'll buy 'em to sell again. yet, i'faith, L. Macd. Ay, that he was. Son. What is a traitor ? (Exeunt. and lie ? L. Macd. Every one. Son. Who must hang them ? L. Macd. Why, the honest men. there are liars and swearers enough to beat the He had none: L. Macd. Now, God help thee, poor monkey? Son. If he were dead, you'd weep for him: if you You know not, would not, it were a good sign that I should quicks ly have a new father. Enter a Messenger. Mess. Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Though in your state of honour I am persect. Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. I doubt, some danger does approach you nearly : All is the fear, and nothing is the love; If you will take a homely man's advice, As little is the wisdom, where the light Be pot found here; hence, with your little ones. To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage ; My dearest coz', To do worse to you, were fell cruelty, you! L. Macd. Whither should I fly ? But cruel are the times, when we are traitors, I have done no harm. But I remember now And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour I am in this earthly world; where, to do harm, From what we fear, yet know not what we fear; Is osten laudable : to do good, sometime, Accounted dangerous folly: Why then, alas! To say I have done no harm ?-What are these faces ? ward Enter Murderers. L. Macd. I hope in no place so unsanctified, He's a traitor. What, you egg? L. Macd. Sirrah, your father's dead; And what will you do now? How will you live? (Stabbing him. Young fry of treachery? Son. As birds do, mother. Son. He has killed me, mother ; (Dies. Son. With what I get, I mean; and so do they. [Èxil Lady Macduff, crying murder, L. Macd. Poor bird! thou’dst never fear the net, and pursued by the Murderers. nor lime, The pit-fall, nor the gin. SCENE III.-England. A room in the King's Son. Why should I, mother? Poor birds they palace. Enter Malcolm and Macduff. are not set for. Mal. Let us seek out some desolate shade, and My father is not dead, for all your saying. there (1) Preventest, by taking away the opportunity. (4) Natural affection. (2) Follow 13) i. e. Our flight is considered as evidence of of reproach. (5) Sirrah was not in our author's time a term a Our treason, (6) I am persectly acquainted with your rank. a Weep our sad bosoms empty. Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Macd. Let us rather Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin Hold fast the mortal sword; and, like good men, That has a name: But there's no bottom, none, Bestride our downfall'n birthdom :' Each new In my voluptuousness : your wives, your daughters, morn, Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up Than such a one to reign. Boundless intemperance The untimely emptying of the happy throne, What you have spoke, it may be so, perchance. And fall of many kings. But fear not yet This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue, To take upon you what is yours : you may Was once thought honest : you have lov'd him well; Convey your pleasures in a spacious pleniy, He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young; but And yet seem cold, the time you may so hood-wink. something We have willing dames enough; there cannot be You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom That vulture in you, to devour so many To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb, As will to greatness dedicate themselves, To appease an angry god. Finding it so inclin'd. Macd. I am not treacherous. Mal. With this, there grows, Nal. But Macbeth is. In my most ill-compos'd affection, such A good and virtuous nature may recoil, A stanchless avarice, that were I king, In an imperial charge.' But 'crave your pardon; I should cut off the nobles for their lands; That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose: Desire his jewels, and this other's house: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell : And my morc-having would be as a sauce Though all things foul would wear the brows or To make me hunger more; that I should forge grace, Quarrels unjust against the good, and loyal, Yet grace must still look so. Destroying them for wealth. I have lost my hopes. This avarice Mal. Perchance, even there, where I did find Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root my doubts. Than suminer-seeding lust: and it hath been Why in that rawness left you wise and child The sword of our slain kings: Yel do not sear; (Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,) Scotland hath foysons to fill up your will, Without leave-taking ?-I pray you, Of vour mere own : All these are portable, I.et not my jealousies be your dishonours, With other graces weigh'd. But mine own safeties :-You may be rightly just, Mal. But I have none : The king-becoming Whatever I shall think. graces, Macd. Bleed, bleed, poor country! As justice, veríty, temperance, stableness, Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, For goodness dares not check thee! wear thou thy Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, wrongs, I have no relish of them ; but abound Thy title is affeerd. '-Fare thee well, lord : In the division of each several crime, I would not be the villain that thou think'st Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp, Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, And the rich east to boot. l'proar the universal peace, confound Mal. Be not offended : All unity on earth. I speak not as in absolute fear of you. Macd. O Scotland! Scotland ! I think, our country sinks beneath the yoke ; Mal. If such a one be fit to govern, speak; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash I am as I have spoken. Is added to her wounds : I think, withal, Macd. Fit to covern! There would be hands uplisted in my right; No, not to live.-0 nation miserable, And here, from gracious England, have I offer With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, Of goodly thousands : But, for all this, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again ? When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head, Since that the truest issue of thv throne Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country By his own interdiction stands accurs’d, Shall have more vices than it had before; And does blaspheme his breed ?-Thy royal father More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever, Was a most sainted king; the queen, that bore thee, By him that shall succeed. Ofner upon her knees than on her feet, What should he be ? Died every day she lived. Fare thee well! Have banish'd me from Scotland. - 0, my breast, Macduff, this noble passion, Esteem him as a lamb, being compar'd Child of integrity, hath from my soul With my confineless harms. Wip'd the black scruples, reconcil'd my thoughts Macd. Not in the legions To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth Or horrid hell, can come a devil more damn'd By many of these trains hath sought to win me In evils, to top Macbeth. Into his power: and modest wisdom plucks me Mal. I grant him bloody, (4) Legally settled by those who had the final (1) Birthright. (2) Befriend. adjudication." 3) i. e. A good mind may recede from goodness (5) Lascivious. (6) Passionate. in the execution of a royal commission. (7) Plenty. (8) May be endured. goes it ? 5 : 334 Act IP. What is the newest grief? Deal between thee and me! for even now Rosse. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Macd. How does my wife? Rosse. Why, well. Macd. And all my children? Rosse. Well too. Rosse. No; they were well at peace, when I did Macd. Be not a niggard of your speech; How tidings, Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers, make our women fight, To doff's their dire distresses. Mal. Be it their comfort, Lent us good Siward, and ten thousand men; Rosse. 'Would I could answer Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand, This comfort with the like! But I have words, They presenlly amend. That would be howld out in the desert air, I thank you, doctor. (Ex. Doct. Where hearing should not latch them. Macd. What concern they? 'Tis call'd the evil: The general cause? or is it a fee-grief," No mind, that's honest, I have seen him do. "How he solicits heaven, But in it shares some wo; though the main part Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people, Pertains to you alone. All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, Macd. If it be mine, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it. Ilanging a golden stamp about their necks, Rosse. Let not your ears despise my tongue for Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, ever, To the succeeding royalty he leaves Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound, The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, That ever yet they heard. He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy; Macd. Humph! I guess at it. And sundry blessings hang about his throne, Rosse. Your castle is surpris'd; your wife, and That speak him full of grace. babes, Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner, Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer, See, who comes here? To add the death of you. Merciful heaven! Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macd. My children too? Wife, children, servants, all That could be found. Rosse. Alas, poor country; Macd. And I must be from thence ! Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot My wife kill'd too? Be call'd our mother, but our grave: where nothing, Rosse. I have said. But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile; Mal. Be comforted : To cure this deadly grief. At one fell swoop? Nal. Dispute it like a man. Dying, or ere they sicken. Macd. I shall do so; Macd. 0, relation But I must also feel it as a man: Too nice, and yet too true! I cannot but remember such things were, (1) Over-hasty credulity. (4) Common distress of mind. (5) Put off. (2) Overpowers, subdues. (6) Catch. (7) A grief that has a single owner. (3) The coin callcd an angel. (8) The game after it is killed. remove air, That were most precious to me.—Did heaven look|--Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and a sear’d? What on, need we fear who knows it, when none can call our And would not take their part ? Sinful Macduff, power to account ?-Yet who would have thought They were all struck for thee ! naught that I am, the old man to have had so much blood in him? Not for their own demerits, but for mine, Doct. Do you mark that? Fell slaughter on their souls : Heaven rest them. Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; Where now! is she now ?-What, will these hands ne'er be Mol. Be this the whetstone of your sword: let clean ?-No more o'that, my lord, no more o'that: grief you mar all with this starting. Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it. Doct. Go to, go to; you have known what you Macd. O, I could play the woman with mine should not. eyes, Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am And braggart with my tongue!-But, gentle heaven, sure of that: Heaven knows what she has known. Cut short all intermission ;' front to front, Lady M. Here's the smell of the blood still: all Bring thou this fiend of Scotland, and myself; the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape, hand. Oh! oh! oh! Heaven forgive him too! Doct. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely Mal. This tune goes manly. charged. Come, go we to the king ; our power is ready; Gent. I would not have such a heart in my boOur lack is nothing but our leave: Macbeth som, for the dignity of the whole body. Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above Doct. Well, well, well,Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you Gent. 'Pray God, it be, sir. may; Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: Yet The night is long, that never finds the day. (Exe. I have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds. Laily, M. Wash your hands, put on your nightACT V. gown, look not so pale:- I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave. Doct. Even so ? SCENE I.-Dunsinane. A room in the castle. Enter a Doctor of Physic, and a waiting Gen- the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your Lady M. To bed, to bed; there's knocking at tlewoman. hand; What's done, cannot be undone : To bed, Doct. I have two nights watched with you, but to bed, to bed. [ Eril Lady Macbeth. can perceive no truth in your report. When was it Docí. Will she go now to bed ? she last walked ? Gent. Directly. Gent. Since his majesty went into the field, I Doct. Foul whisperings are abroad: Unnatural have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night deeds gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, Do breed unnatural troubles : Infected minds Told it, write upon it, read it, afterwards seal it, and To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. again return to bed; yet all this while in a most More needs she the divine, than the physician.fast sleep. God, God, forgive us all! Look after her ; Doct. A great perturbation in nature ! to receive Remove from her the means of all annoyance, at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of and still keep eyes upon her :-So, good night: watching.- In this slumbry agitation, besides her My mind she has mated, and amaz'd my sight: walking, and other actual performances, what, at I think, but dare not speak. any time, have you heard her say? Gent. "Good night, good doctor. Gent. That, sir, which I will not report after her. [Exeunt. Doct. You may, to me; and 'tis most meet you SCENE II.-The country near Dunsinane. En. should. ter, with drum and colours, Menteth, Cathness, Gent. Neither to you, nor any one, having no witness to confirm my speech. Angus, Lenox, and Soldiers. Ment. The English power is near, led on by Enter Lady Macbeth, with a laper. Malcolm, Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise ; His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her ; stand Revenges burn in them: for their dear causes close. Would, to the blecding, and the grim alarm, Doct. How came she by that light? Excite the mortified man. Gent. Why, it stood by her : she has light by Ang. Near Birnam wood her continually; 'tis her command. Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming. Doct. You see, her eyes are open. Cath. Who knows, if Donalbain be with his Genl. Ay, but their sense is shut. brother? Doct. What is it she does now? Look, how she Len. For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file rubs her hands. Of all the gentry; there is Siward's son, Gent. It is an accustomed action with her, to And many unrough' youths, that even now seem thus washing her hands; I have known her Protest their first of manhood. continue in this a quarter of an hour. Ment. What does the tyrant? Lady M. Yet here's a spot. Cath. Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies: Doci. Hark, she speaks: I will set down what Some say, he's mad; others, that lesser hate him, comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain, more strongly. He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Now does he fecl (1) All pause. (2) Dark (3) Confounded. (4) A religious; an ascetic. (5) Unbearded. Act V, all; 5 336 MACBETH. Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, Macb. Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Who then shall blame Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Well, march we on, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct. Therein the patient Macb. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.- Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff: Seyton, send out.--Doctor, the thanes fly from me:- The water of my land, find her disease, I would applaud thee to the very echo, , I say.- What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,. of them ? Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, Doct. Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation Macb. Bring it after me.-- I will not be afraid of death and bane, Profit again should hardly draw me here. (Exit. SCENE IV.-Country near Dunsinane : A wood in view. Enter, with drum and colours, MalShall never sagg’ with doubt, nor shake with fear. colm, Old Siward and his Son, Macduff, MenEnter a Servant. teth, Cathness, Angus, Lenox, Rosse, and SolThe devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon;' diers, marching. Where got'st thou that goose-look ? Mal. Cousins, I hope, the days are near at hand Serv. There is ten thousand That chambers will be safe. Geese, villain ? We doubt it nothing. Soldiers, sir. Siw. What wood is this before us? Macb. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Ment. The wood of Birnam. Serv. The English force, so please you. Err in report of us. It shall be done. Siw. We learn no other, but the confident tyrant Our setting down befor't. Mal. 'Tis his main hope: Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf: For where there is advantage to be given, Let our just censures Industrious soldiership. Siw, The time approaches, Sey. What is your gracious pleasure ? That will with due decision make us know Macb. What news more? What we shall say we have, and what we owe. Sey. All is confirm’d, my lord, which was re- Thoughts speculative, their unsure hopes relate ; ported. But certain issue strokes must arbitrate : Macb. I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be Towards which, advance the war. hack'd. [Exeunt, marching. Give me my armour. Sey. 'Tis not needed yet. SCENE V.-Dunsinane. Within the castle. En ter, with drums and colours, Macbeth, Seyton, Macb. I'll put it on. and Soldiers.. Send out more horses, skirrs the country round; Hang those that talk of fear.-Give me mine ar- Macb. Ilang out our banners on the outward mour. walls; (1) The physician. (2) Sink. (3) Base fellow. (6) Scour. (7) i. e. Greater and less. (4) An appellation of contempt. (5) Dry. (8) Determine. 5 |