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` THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH `
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` by William Shakespeare `
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` Dramatis Personae `
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` DUNCAN, King of Scotland `
` MACBETH, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, a general in the King's `
` army `
` LADY MACBETH, his wife `
` MACDUFF, Thane of Fife, a nobleman of Scotland `
` LADY MACDUFF, his wife `
` MALCOLM, elder son of Duncan `
` DONALBAIN, younger son of Duncan `
` BANQUO, Thane of Lochaber, a general in the King's army `
` FLEANCE, his son `
` LENNOX, nobleman of Scotland `
` ROSS, nobleman of Scotland `
` MENTEITH nobleman of Scotland `
` ANGUS, nobleman of Scotland `
` CAITHNESS, nobleman of Scotland `
` SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces `
` YOUNG SIWARD, his son `
` SEYTON, attendant to Macbeth `
` HECATE, Queen of the Witches `
` The Three Witches `
` Boy, Son of Macduff `
` Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth `
` An English Doctor `
` A Scottish Doctor `
` A Sergeant `
` A Porter `
` An Old Man `
` The Ghost of Banquo and other Apparitions `
` Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murtherers, Attendants, `
` and Messengers `
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` SCENE: Scotland and England `
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` ACT I. SCENE I. `
` A desert place. Thunder and lightning. `
` `
` Enter three Witches. `
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` FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? `
` In thunder, lightning, or in rain? `
` SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, `
` When the battle's lost and won. `
` THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. `
` FIRST WITCH. Where the place? `
` SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. `
` THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. `
` FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. `
` ALL. Paddock calls. Anon! `
` Fair is foul, and foul is fair. `
` Hover through the fog and filthy air. Exeunt. `
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` SCENE II. `
` A camp near Forres. Alarum within. `
` `
` Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with Attendants, `
` meeting a bleeding Sergeant. `
` `
` DUNCAN. What bloody man is that? He can report, `
` As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt `
` The newest state. `
` MALCOLM. This is the sergeant `
` Who like a good and hardy soldier fought `
` 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! `
` Say to the King the knowledge of the broil `
` As thou didst leave it. `
` SERGEANT. Doubtful it stood, `
` As two spent swimmers that do cling together `
` And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald- `
` Worthy to be a rebel, for to that `
` The multiplying villainies of nature `
` Do swarm upon him -from the Western Isles `
` Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; `
` And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, `
` Show'd like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak; `
` For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name- `
` Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, `
` Which smoked with bloody execution, `
` Like Valor's minion carved out his passage `
` Till he faced the slave, `
` Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, `
` Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, `
` And fix'd his head upon our battlements. `
` DUNCAN. O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman! `
` SERGEANT. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection `
` Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, `
` So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come `
` Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark. `
` No sooner justice had, with valor arm'd, `
` Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, `
` But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, `
` With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men, `
` Began a fresh assault. `
` DUNCAN. Dismay'd not this `
` Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo.? `
` SERGEANT. Yes, `
` As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. `
` If I say sooth, I must report they were `
` As cannons overcharged with double cracks, `
` So they `
` 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. `
` DUNCAN. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; `
` They smack of honor both. Go get him surgeons. `
` Exit Sergeant, attended. `
` Who comes here? `
` `
` Enter Ross. `
` `
` MALCOLM The worthy Thane of Ross. `
` LENNOX. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look `
` That seems to speak things strange. `
` ROSS. God save the King! `
` DUNCAN. Whence camest thou, worthy Thane? `
` ROSS. From Fife, great King, `
` Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky `
` And fan our people cold. `
` Norway himself, with terrible numbers, `
` Assisted by that most disloyal traitor `
` The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, `
` Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, `
` Confronted him with self-comparisons, `
` Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, `
` Curbing his lavish spirit; and, to conclude, `
` The victory fell on us. `
` DUNCAN. Great happiness! `
` ROSS. That now `
` Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition; `
` Nor would we deign him burial of his men `
` Till he disbursed, at Saint Colme's Inch, `
` Ten thousand dollars to our general use. `
` DUNCAN. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive `
` Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, `
` And with his former title greet Macbeth. `
` ROSS. I'll see it done. `
` DUNCAN. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. `
` Exeunt. `
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` `
` SCENE III. `
` A heath. Thunder. `
` `
` Enter the three Witches. `
` `
` FIRST WITCH. Where hast thou been, sister? `
` SECOND WITCH. Killing swine. `
` THIRD WITCH. Sister, where thou? `
` FIRST WITCH. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, `
` And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd. "Give me," quoth I. `
` "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. `
` Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master 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. `
` SECOND WITCH. I'll give thee a wind. `
` FIRST WITCH. Thou'rt kind. `
` THIRD WITCH. And I another. `
` FIRST WITCH. I myself have all the other, `
` And the very ports they blow, `
` All the quarters that they know `
` I' the shipman's card. `
` I will drain him dry as hay: `
` Sleep shall neither night nor day `
` Hang upon his penthouse lid; `
` He shall live a man forbid. `
` Weary se'nnights nine times nine `
` Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine; `
` Though his bark cannot be lost, `
` Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd. `
` Look what I have. `
` SECOND WITCH. Show me, show me. `
` FIRST WITCH. Here I have a pilot's thumb, `
` Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Drum within. `
` THIRD WITCH. A drum, a drum! `
` Macbeth doth come. `
` ALL. The weird sisters, hand in hand, `
` Posters of the sea and land, `
` Thus do go about, about, `
`
` `
` THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH `
` `
` `
` by William Shakespeare `
` `
` `
` `
` Dramatis Personae `
` `
` DUNCAN, King of Scotland `
` MACBETH, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, a general in the King's `
` army `
` LADY MACBETH, his wife `
` MACDUFF, Thane of Fife, a nobleman of Scotland `
` LADY MACDUFF, his wife `
` MALCOLM, elder son of Duncan `
` DONALBAIN, younger son of Duncan `
` BANQUO, Thane of Lochaber, a general in the King's army `
` FLEANCE, his son `
` LENNOX, nobleman of Scotland `
` ROSS, nobleman of Scotland `
` MENTEITH nobleman of Scotland `
` ANGUS, nobleman of Scotland `
` CAITHNESS, nobleman of Scotland `
` SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces `
` YOUNG SIWARD, his son `
` SEYTON, attendant to Macbeth `
` HECATE, Queen of the Witches `
` The Three Witches `
` Boy, Son of Macduff `
` Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth `
` An English Doctor `
` A Scottish Doctor `
` A Sergeant `
` A Porter `
` An Old Man `
` The Ghost of Banquo and other Apparitions `
` Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murtherers, Attendants, `
` and Messengers `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE: Scotland and England `
` `
` `
` ACT I. SCENE I. `
` A desert place. Thunder and lightning. `
` `
` Enter three Witches. `
` `
` FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? `
` In thunder, lightning, or in rain? `
` SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, `
` When the battle's lost and won. `
` THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. `
` FIRST WITCH. Where the place? `
` SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. `
` THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. `
` FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. `
` ALL. Paddock calls. Anon! `
` Fair is foul, and foul is fair. `
` Hover through the fog and filthy air. Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE II. `
` A camp near Forres. Alarum within. `
` `
` Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with Attendants, `
` meeting a bleeding Sergeant. `
` `
` DUNCAN. What bloody man is that? He can report, `
` As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt `
` The newest state. `
` MALCOLM. This is the sergeant `
` Who like a good and hardy soldier fought `
` 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! `
` Say to the King the knowledge of the broil `
` As thou didst leave it. `
` SERGEANT. Doubtful it stood, `
` As two spent swimmers that do cling together `
` And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald- `
` Worthy to be a rebel, for to that `
` The multiplying villainies of nature `
` Do swarm upon him -from the Western Isles `
` Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; `
` And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, `
` Show'd like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak; `
` For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name- `
` Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, `
` Which smoked with bloody execution, `
` Like Valor's minion carved out his passage `
` Till he faced the slave, `
` Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, `
` Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, `
` And fix'd his head upon our battlements. `
` DUNCAN. O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman! `
` SERGEANT. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection `
` Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, `
` So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come `
` Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark. `
` No sooner justice had, with valor arm'd, `
` Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, `
` But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, `
` With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men, `
` Began a fresh assault. `
` DUNCAN. Dismay'd not this `
` Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo.? `
` SERGEANT. Yes, `
` As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. `
` If I say sooth, I must report they were `
` As cannons overcharged with double cracks, `
` So they `
` 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. `
` DUNCAN. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; `
` They smack of honor both. Go get him surgeons. `
` Exit Sergeant, attended. `
` Who comes here? `
` `
` Enter Ross. `
` `
` MALCOLM The worthy Thane of Ross. `
` LENNOX. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look `
` That seems to speak things strange. `
` ROSS. God save the King! `
` DUNCAN. Whence camest thou, worthy Thane? `
` ROSS. From Fife, great King, `
` Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky `
` And fan our people cold. `
` Norway himself, with terrible numbers, `
` Assisted by that most disloyal traitor `
` The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, `
` Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, `
` Confronted him with self-comparisons, `
` Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm, `
` Curbing his lavish spirit; and, to conclude, `
` The victory fell on us. `
` DUNCAN. Great happiness! `
` ROSS. That now `
` Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition; `
` Nor would we deign him burial of his men `
` Till he disbursed, at Saint Colme's Inch, `
` Ten thousand dollars to our general use. `
` DUNCAN. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive `
` Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, `
` And with his former title greet Macbeth. `
` ROSS. I'll see it done. `
` DUNCAN. What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. `
` Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE III. `
` A heath. Thunder. `
` `
` Enter the three Witches. `
` `
` FIRST WITCH. Where hast thou been, sister? `
` SECOND WITCH. Killing swine. `
` THIRD WITCH. Sister, where thou? `
` FIRST WITCH. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, `
` And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd. "Give me," quoth I. `
` "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. `
` Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master 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. `
` SECOND WITCH. I'll give thee a wind. `
` FIRST WITCH. Thou'rt kind. `
` THIRD WITCH. And I another. `
` FIRST WITCH. I myself have all the other, `
` And the very ports they blow, `
` All the quarters that they know `
` I' the shipman's card. `
` I will drain him dry as hay: `
` Sleep shall neither night nor day `
` Hang upon his penthouse lid; `
` He shall live a man forbid. `
` Weary se'nnights nine times nine `
` Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine; `
` Though his bark cannot be lost, `
` Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd. `
` Look what I have. `
` SECOND WITCH. Show me, show me. `
` FIRST WITCH. Here I have a pilot's thumb, `
` Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Drum within. `
` THIRD WITCH. A drum, a drum! `
` Macbeth doth come. `
` ALL. The weird sisters, hand in hand, `
` Posters of the sea and land, `
` Thus do go about, about, `
`