(Impostors to true fear,) would well become A woman's story, at a winter's fire, Authoriz'd by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool. Macb. Pr'ythee, see there! behold! look! lo! how 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. Lady M. [Ghost disappears. What! quite unmann'd in folly? Macb. If I stand here, I saw him. Lady M. Fye, for shame! Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now, i'the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal; Do not muse3 at me, my most worthy friends; I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing all; 3 Wonder. Then I'll sit down full: -Give me some wine, fill I drink to the general joy of the whole table, Ghost rises. And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss; Lords. Our duties, and the pledge. Macb. Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with! Lady M. Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom : 'tis no other; Macb. What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, I am a man again.-Pray you, sit still. Lady M. You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder. 4 i. e. All good wishes to all. 5 Forbid. Macb. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 6 Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe,7 When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear. Rosse. What sights, my lord? Lady M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him: at once, good night : Stand not upon the order of your going, Macb. It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, and understood relations, have 8 By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.-What is the night? Lady M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which. Macb. How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person, At our great bidding? Lady M. Did you send to him, sir? Macb. I hear it by the way; but I will send : Pass over. 7 Possess. 8 Mag-pies. There's not a one of them, but in his house More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Is the initiate fear, that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed. [Exeunt, SCENE V. The Heath. Thunder. Enter HECATE, meeting the Three Witches. 1 Witch. Why, how now, Hecate? you look an gerly. dare Hec. Have I not reason, beldams, as you are, 9 An individual. 1 Examined nicely. And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful, and wrathful; who, as others do, But make amends now: Get you gone, And at the pit of Acheron, Meet me i'the morning; thither he Your vessels, and your spells, provide, Great business must be wrought ere noon : There hangs a vaporous drop profound; 2 Is mortal's chiefest enemy. Song. [Within.] Come away, come away, &c. Hark, I am call'd; my little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. [Exit. 1 Witch. Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again. [Exeunt. 2i.e. A drop that has deep or hidden qualities. |