Lady M. You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder. Macb. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange When now I think you can behold such sights, 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, But go at once. Good night, and better health Attend his Majesty! A kind good night to all! 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 By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth Lady M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which. person, At our great bidding? Lady M. Did you send to him, sir? 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; Lady M. You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Macb. Come, we'll to sleep: My strange and self abuse Is the initiate fear, that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed. SCENE V. The Heath. [Exeunt. Thunder. Enter HECATE, meeting the three Witches. In riddles and affairs of death; Meet me i'the morning; thither he Great business must be wrought ere noon : There hangs a vaporous drop profound; D He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Song. [Within] Come away, come away, &c. Hark, I am call'd; my little spirit, see, 1 Witch. Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. again. [Exit. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. FORES. A Room in the Palace. Enter LENOX and another Lord. Len. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, Which can interpret further: only, I say, Things have been strangely borne: The gracious Duncan That were the slaves of drink, and thralls of sleep? (As, an't please heaven, he shall not), they should find What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance. But, peace! for from broad words, and 'cause he fail'd Macduff lives in disgrace: Sir, can you tell Lord. Of the most pious Edward with such grace, Is To wake Northumberland, and warlike Siward: Give to our table meat, sleep to our nights; Len. Sent he to Macduff? Lord. He did: and with an absolute, Sir, not 1, And hums; as who should say, You'll rue the time Len. Lord. My prayers with him! [Exeunt. A dark Cave. In the middle a Cauldron boiling. Thunder. Enter three Witches. 1 Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. 2 Witch. Thrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd. 3 Witch. Harper cries:-'Tis time, 'tis time. 1 Witch. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw.Toad, that under coldest stone, Days and nights hast thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i'the charmed pot! All. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble. 2 Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, ool of bat, and tongue of dog, |