life in me, would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old man and his fon aboard the prince; told him, I heard them talk of a farthel, and I know not what: but he at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter, (fo he then took her to be) who began to be much fea-fick, and himself little better, extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remained undifcovered. 'tis all one to me; for had I been the finder-out of this fecret, it would not have relifh'd among my other difcredits. Enter Shepherd and Clown, But Here come thofe I have done good to against my will, and already appearing in the bloffoms of their fortune. I did not well, I meant well: All my services Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to vifit; Shep. Come, boy; I am past more children; but thy fous and daughters will be all gentlemen born. Cls. You are well met, fir; You denied to fight Leo. O Paulina, with me this other day, because I was no gentle-We honour you with trouble: But we came man born: See you thefe clothes? fay, you fee To fee the ftatue of our queen: your gallery them not, and think me ftill no gentleman born: Have we pats'd through, not without much content you were best say, these robes are not gentlemen In many fingularities; but we faw not born. Give me the lie; do; and try whether I That which my daughter came to look upon, am not now a gentleman born. The ftatue of her mother. Aut. I know, you are now, fir, a gentleman born. Cl. Ay, and have been fo any time thefe four hours. Shep. And fo have 1, boy. Clo. So you have:-but I was a gentleman born before my father: for the king's fon took me by the hand, and call'd me brother; and then the two kings call'd my father, brother; and then the prince, my brother, and the princefs, my fifter, call'd my father, father; and fo we wept: and there was the firft gentleman-like tears that ever we shed. Shep. We may live, fon, to fhed many more. Clo. Ay; or elie 'twere hard luck, being in fo prepofterous eftate as we are. Aut. I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worthip, and to give me your good report to the prince my mafter. Shep. 'Pr'ythee, fon, do; for we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen. Clo. Thou wilt amend thy life? dat. Ay, an it like your good worship. Clo. Give me thy hand: I will fwear to the prince, thou art as honeft a true fellow as any is in Bohemia. Sep. You may fay it, but not fwear it. Paul. As the liv'd peerless, So her dead likeneis, I do well believe, leo. Her natural posture!- Pol, Oh, not by much. Paul. So much the more our carver's excellence; Leo. As now the might have done, As now it coldly ftands) when firft I woo'd her! For being more ftone than it ?-Oh, royal piece, Per. And give me leave; Clo. If it be ne'er fo falfe, a true gentleman may fwear it, in the behalf of his friend :-And I'll fwear to the prince, thou art a tall 2 fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know, fhou art no tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunk; but I'll fwear it: and I would, ou would'st be a tall fellow of thy hands. Aut. I will prove fo, fir, to my power. Cic. Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow; if I do not wonder, how thou dar'ft venture to be drunk, not being a tall fellow, truft me not.-Not dry. I kneel, and then implore her bleffing.-Lady, Paul. Oh, patience 3 ; The ftatue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Franklin is a freeholder, or yeoman, a man above a villain, but not a gentleman. 2 i.. tout. 3 i. e. stay a while, be not fo eager. Cam. Cam. My lord, your forrow was too fore laid on ; I'll fill your grave up: ftir; nay, come away; Which fixteen winters cannot blow away; So many fummers, dry: fcarce any joy Did ever fo long live; no forrow, But kill'd itself much fooner. Pol. Dear my brother, Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him Start not; her actions fhall be holy, as, You kill her double: Nay, prefent your hand : Cam. She hangs about his neck; If the pertain to life, let her fpeak too. Poi. Ay, and make't manifeft where the has liv'd, Paul. That he is living, Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already-Or how ftol'n from the dead? Pol. Mafterly done: [veins The very life feems warm upon her lip. Paul. I'll draw the curtain ; My lord's almost fo far tranfported, that Leo. O fweet Paulina, Make me to think fo twenty years together; The pleafure of that madness. Let 't alone. [but Leo. Do, Paulina ; For this affliction has a taste as sweet Paul. Good my lord, forbear: Were it but told you, should be hooted at [Prefenting Perdita, zuho kneels to Hermione. Her. You gods, look down, And from your facred vials pour your graces how found Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear, that 1,— Paul. There's time enough for that; Will wing me to fome wither'd bough; and there Leo. O peace, Paulina ; Thou fhould ft a husband take by my confent, And made between's by vows. Thou haft found mine; But how, is to be question'd: for I faw her, By us, a pair of kings.-Let's from this place.- pardons, That e'er I put between your holy looks [Exeunt omnes. MACBETH, ANGUS, CATHNESS, FLEANCE, Son to Banquo. SIWARD, General of the English forces. SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Captain. A Porter. An old Man. Lady MACBETH. Lady MACDUFF. Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. The Ghoft of Banquo, and feveral other Apparitions. SCENE, in the end of the fourth Act, lies in England; through the reft of the play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Caftic. Twitch. ACTI. SCENE I Thunder and Lightning. WE HEN fhall we three meet again 3 Witch. That will be ere th' fet of fun. 2 Witch. Upon the heath: 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Gray-malkin! All. Paddock calls:Anon Fair is foul, and foul is fair 2: Hover through the fog and filthy air. SCEN E II. 'Gainft my captivity: Hail, brave friend! Cap. Doubtful it itood; As two fpent fwimmers, that do cling together, The multiplying villanies of nature Like valour's minion, carved out his paffage, And ne'er fhook hands, nor bade farewel to him, Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Do-Till he unfeam'd him from the nave 3 to the chops, nalbain, Lenox, with Attendants, meeting a bleed-And fix'd his head upon our battlements. ing Captain. King. Oh, valiant coufin! worthy gentleman! Cap. As whence the fun 'gins his reflexion 4, Shipwrecking ftorms and direful thunders break; So from that fpring, whence comfort feem'd to come, Difcomfort fwells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No fooner juftice had, with valour arm'd, I Mr. Upton obferves, that to understand this passage, we should suppose one familiar calling with the voice of a cat, and another with the croaking of a toad. 2 i. e. we make these sudden changes of the weather. 3 Warburton thinks we should read, from the nape to the chops; i. e. cut his skull 4 i. e. the east. in two. Compell'd But I am faint, my gafhes cry for help. King. So well thy words become thee, wounds! as thy I will drain him dry as hay: They fmack of honour both:---Go, get him fur-Hang upon his pent-house lid; Who comes here? Enter Roffe. Mal. The worthy thane of Roffe. He fhall live a man forbid 9: Les. What a hafte looks through his eyes! So Though his bark cannot be loft, fhould he look, That feems to fpeak things ftrange. Roe. God fave the king! King. Whence cam'it thou, worthy thane ? Where the Norweyan banners flout 2 the sky, Norway himself, with terrible numbers, The thane of Cawdor, began a difmal conflict: King. Great happiness! All. The weird fifters 10, hand in hand, Thus do go about, about; Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, Enter Macbeth and Banquo. [thefe, Mac. So foul and fair a day I have not feen.. Macb. Speak, if you can ;-What are you? 2 Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane [fear Ban. Good fir, why do you start; and feem to ■ Memorize, for make memorable. 2 To flout is to mock or infult. 3 i. e. gave him as good as he brought, fhew'd he was his equal. 4 Colme's inch, now called Inchcomb, a fmall ifland lying in the Firth of Edinburgh, with an abbey upon it, dedicated to St. Columb; called by Camden Isch Colm, or the Ile of Columba. 5 Areint, or avaunt, be gone. 6 The weird fifter heie alludes to the poverty of the woman who had called her witch, as not being able to procure better provision than Tumps and other offals. 7 i. e. fcabby or mangy woman; from rogueux, royne, fcurf. 8 i. e. the true exact points. 9 i. e. as one under a eurfe, an interdiction. 10 Weird is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word fignifying a prophecy. The weird fifters here mean the Fates or Defines of the 11i, c. may hold converfe with." 12 Witches were fuppofed always to have northern nations. hair on their chins. Things that do found fo fair?-I'the name of truth, Only to herald thee into his fight, you. Not pay thee. Roffe. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, Ban. What, can the devil fpeak true? [drefs me Ang. Who was the thane, lives yet; Macb. Glamis, and thane of Cawdor: Ban. That, trusted home 6, No more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whence nifh'd? Bun. Were fuch things here, as we do fpeak Cannot be ill; cannot be good:-If ill, Or have we eaten of the infane root 4, That takes the reafon prifoner? Macb. Your children fhall be kings. [about? Why hath it given me earnett of fuccefs, [fo Macb. And thane of Cawdor too; went it not here? Enter Roffe and Angus. 4. We are fent, To give thee, from our royal master, thanks; My thought, whofe murder yet is but fantaftical, Ban. Look, how our partner's rapt. Macb. Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. leifure. I i. e. creatures of fantafy or imagination. 2 Having, we have before obferved, is eftate, pofLeon, fortune. 3 The father of Macbeth. 4 Shakipcare here alludes to the qualities anciently afcribed to hemlock. 5 That is, pofts arrived as faft as they could be counted. • i. e. carried as far as it will go. 7 Enkindle, for to flimulate you to feck. 8 Warburton thinks foliciting 18 here put for information; while Johnfon rather thinks it means incitement. 9 Meaning, Of things now about me I have no perception, being intent wholly on that which has yet no existence." 11. c. was worked, agitated. |