Flye to the Court of England, and vnfold His Message ere he come, that a swift blessing May soone returne to this our suffering Country, Vnder a hand accurs’d
Lord. Ile send my Prayers with him.
Exeunt.
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches.
1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew’d
2 Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin’d
3 Harpier cries, ’tis time, ’tis time
1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that vnder cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha’s thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first i’th’ charmed pot
All. Double, double, toile and trouble; Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
2 Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting, Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble, Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw, and Gulfe
Of the rauin’d salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg’d i’th’ darke: Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Sliuer’d in the Moones Ecclipse:
Nose of Turke, and Tartars lips:
Finger of Birth-strangled Babe,
Ditch-deliuer’d by a Drab,
Make the Grewell thicke, and slab.
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th’ Ingredience of our Cawdron
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble, Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
Enter Hecat, and the other three Witches.
Hec. O well done: I commend your paines, And euery one shall share i’th’ gaines:
And now about the Cauldron sing
Like Elues and Fairies in a Ring,
Inchanting all that you put in.
Musicke and a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c.
2 By the pricking of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
Enter Macbeth.
Macb. How now you secret, black, & midnight Hags? What is’t you do?
All. A deed without a name
Macb. I coniure you, by that which you Professe, (How ere you come to know it) answer me: Though you vntye the Windes, and let them fight Against the Churches: Though the yesty Waues Confound and swallow Nauigation vp:
Though bladed Corne be lodg’d, & Trees blown downe, Though Castles topple on their Warders heads: Though Pallaces, and Pyramids do slope
Their heads to their Foundations: Though the treasure Of Natures Germaine, tumble altogether,
Euen till destruction sicken: Answer me To what I aske you
1 Speake
2 Demand
3 Wee’l answer
1 Say, if th’hadst rather heare it from our mouthes, Or from our Masters
Macb. Call ’em: let me see ’em
1 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten Her nine Farrow: Greaze that’s sweaten
From the Murderers Gibbet, throw
Into the Flame
All. Come high or low:
Thy Selfe and Office deaftly show.
Thunder. 1. Apparation, an Armed Head.
Macb. Tell me, thou vnknowne power
1 He knowes thy thought:
Heare his speech, but say thou nought
1 Appar. Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: Beware Macduffe,
Beware the Thane of Fife: dismisse me. Enough.
He Descends.
Macb. What ere thou art, for thy good caution, thanks Thou hast harp’d my feare aright. But one word more
1 He will not be commanded: heere’s another More potent then the first.
Thunder. 2 Apparition, a Bloody Childe.
2 Appar. Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth
Macb. Had I three eares, Il’d heare thee
Appar. Be bloody, bold, & resolute: Laugh to scorne
The powre of man: For none of woman borne Shall harme Macbeth.
Descends.
Mac. Then liue Macduffe: what need I feare of thee? But yet Ile make assurance: double sure, And take a Bond of Fate: thou shalt not liue, That I may tell pale-hearted Feare, it lies; And sleepe in spight of Thunder.
Thunder 3 Apparation, a Childe Crowned, with a Tree in his hand.
What is this, that rises like the issue of a King, And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round And top of Soueraignty?
All. Listen, but speake not too’t
3 Appar. Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care: Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are: Macbeth shall neuer vanquish’d be, vntill Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill Shall come against him.
Descend.
Macb. That will neuer bee:
Who can impresse the Forrest, bid the Tree Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good: Rebellious dead, rise neuer till the Wood Of Byrnan rise, and our high plac’d Macbeth Shall liue the Lease of Nature, pay his breath To time, and mortall Custome. Yet my Hart Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art Can tell so much: Shall Banquo’s issue euer Reigne in this Kingdome?
All. Seeke to know no more
Macb. I will be satisfied. Deny me this, And an eternall Curse fall on you: Let me know. Why sinkes that Caldron? & what noise is this?
Hoboyes
1 Shew
2 Shew
3 Shew
All. Shew his Eyes, and greeue his Hart, Come like shadowes, so depart.
A shew of eight Kings, and Banquo last, with a glasse in his hand.
Macb. Thou art too like the Spirit of Banquo: Down: Thy Crowne do’s seare mine Eye-bals. And thy haire Thou other Gold-bound-brow, is like the first: A third, is like the former. Filthy Hagges, Why do you shew me this? – A fourth? Start eyes! What will the Line stretch out to’th’ cracke of Doome? Another yet? A seauenth? Ile see no more: And yet the eighth appeares, who beares a glasse, Which shewes me many more: and some I see, That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry. Horrible sight: Now I see ’tis true,
For the Blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles vpon me, And points at them for his. What? is this so? 1 I Sir, all this is so. But why
Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, And shew the best of our delights.
Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound, While you performe your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say, Our duties, did his welcome pay.
Musicke. The Witches Dance, and vanish.
Macb. Where are they? Gone?
Let this pernitious houre,
Stand aye accursed in the Kalender. Come in, without there.
Enter Lenox.
Lenox. What’s your Graces will
Macb. Saw you the Weyard Sisters?
Lenox. No my Lord
Macb. Came they not by you?
Lenox. No indeed my Lord
Macb. Infected be the Ayre whereon they ride, And damn’d all those that trust them. I did heare The gallopping of Horse. Who was’t came by? Len. ‘Tis two or three my Lord, that bring you word: Macduff is fled to England
Macb. Fled to England?
Len. I, my good Lord
Macb. Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits: The flighty purpose neuer is o’re-tooke
Vnlesse the deed go with it. From this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And euen now
To Crown my thoughts with Acts: be it thoght & done: The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize.
Seize vpon Fife; giue to th’ edge o’th’ Sword His Wife, his Babes, and all vnfortunate Soules That trace him in his Line. No boasting like a Foole, This deed Ile do, before this purpose coole, But no more sights. Where are these Gentlemen? Come bring me where they are.
Exeunt.
Scena Secunda.
Enter Macduffes Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
Wife. What had he done, to make him fly the Land? Rosse. You must haue patience Madam
Wife. He had none:
His flight was madnesse: when our Actions do not, Our feares do make vs Traitors
Rosse. You know not
Whether it was his wisedome, or his feare
Wife. Wisedom? to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes, His Mansion, and his Titles, in a place
From whence himselfe do’s flye? He loues vs not, He wants the naturall touch. For the poore Wren (The most diminitiue of Birds) will fight, Her yong ones in her Nest, against the Owle: All is the Feare, and nothing is the Loue; As little is the Wisedome, where the flight So runnes against all reason
Rosse. My deerest Cooz,
I pray you schoole your selfe. But for your Husband, He is Noble, Wise, Iudicious, and best knowes The fits o’th’ Season. I dare not speake much further, But cruell are the times, when we are Traitors And do not know our selues: when we hold Rumor From what we feare, yet know not what we feare, But floate vpon a wilde and violent Sea
Each way, and moue. I take my leaue of you: Shall not be long but Ile be heere againe: Things at the worst will cease, or else climbe vpward, To what they were before. My pretty Cosine, Blessing vpon you
Wife. Father’d he is,
And yet hee’s Father-lesse
Rosse. I am so much a Foole, should I stay longer It would be my disgrace, and your discomfort. I take my leaue at once.
Exit Rosse.
Wife. Sirra, your Fathers dead,
And what will you do now? How will you liue? Son. As Birds do Mother
Wife. What with Wormes, and Flyes?
Son. With what I get I meane, and so do they
Wife. Poore Bird,
Thou’dst neuer Feare the Net, nor Lime, The Pitfall, nor the Gin
Son. Why should I Mother?
Poore Birds they are not set for:
My Father is not dead for all your saying
Wife. Yes, he is dead:
How wilt thou do for a Father?
Son. Nay how will you do for a Husband? Wife. Why I can buy me twenty at any Market
Son. Then you’l by ’em to sell againe
Wife. Thou speak’st withall thy wit, And yet I’faith with wit enough for thee
Son. Was my Father a Traitor, Mother? Wife. I, that he was
Son. What is a Traitor?
Wife. Why one that sweares, and lyes
Son. And be all Traitors, that do so
Wife. Euery one that do’s so, is a Traitor, And must be hang’d
Son. And must they all be hang’d, that swear and lye? Wife. Euery one
Son. Who must hang them?
Wife. Why, the honest men
Son. Then the Liars and Swearers are Fools: for there are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men, and hang vp them
Wife. Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: But how wilt thou do for a Father?
Son. If he were dead, youl’d weepe for him: if you would not, it were a good signe, that I should quickely haue a new Father
Wife. Poore pratler, how thou talk’st? Enter a Messenger.
Mes. Blesse you faire Dame: I am not to you known, Though in your state of Honor I am perfect; I doubt some danger do’s approach you neerely. If you will take a homely mans aduice,
Be not found heere: Hence with your little ones To fright you thus. Me thinkes I am too sauage: To do worse to you, were fell Cruelty,
Which is too nie your person. Heauen preserue you, I dare abide no longer.
Exit Messenger
Wife. Whether should I flye?
I haue done no harme. But I remember now I am in this earthly world: where to do harme Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly. Why then (alas) Do I put vp that womanly defence,
To say I haue done no harme?
What are these faces?
Enter Murtherers.
Mur. Where is your Husband?
Wife. I hope in no place so vnsanctified, Where such as thou may’st finde him
Mur. He’s a Traitor
Son. Thou ly’st thou shagge-ear’d Villaine
Mur. What you Egge?
Yong fry of Treachery?
Son. He ha’s kill’d me Mother,
Run away I pray you.
Exit crying Murther.
Scaena Tertia.
Enter Malcolme and Macduffe.
Mal. Let vs seeke out some desolate shade, & there Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd. Let vs rather
Hold fast the mortall Sword: and like good men, Bestride our downfall Birthdome: each new Morne, New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, new sorowes Strike heauen on the face, that it resounds As if it felt with Scotland, and yell’d out Like Syllable of Dolour
Mal. What I beleeue, Ile waile;
What know, beleeue; and what I can redresse, As I shall finde the time to friend: I wil. What you haue spoke, it may be so perchance. This Tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest: you haue lou’d him well, He hath not touch’d you yet. I am yong, but something You may discerne of him through me, and wisedome To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe T’ appease an angry God
Macd. I am not treacherous
Malc. But Macbeth is.
A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle In an Imperiall charge. But I shall craue your pardon: That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose; Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foule, would wear the brows of grace Yet Grace must still looke so
Macd. I haue lost my Hopes
Malc. Perchance euen there
Where I did finde my doubts.
Why in that rawnesse left you Wife, and Childe? Those precious Motiues, those strong knots of Loue, Without leaue-taking. I pray you,
Let not my Iealousies, be your Dishonors, But mine owne Safeties: you may be rightly iust, What euer I shall thinke
Macd. Bleed, bleed poore Country,
Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodnesse dare not check thee: wear y thy wrongs, The Title, is affear’d. Far thee well Lord, I would not be the Villaine that thou think’st, For the whole Space that’s in the Tyrants Graspe, And the rich East to boot
Mal. Be not offended:
I speake not as in absolute feare of you: I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake, It weepes, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I thinke withall, There would be hands vplifted in my right: And heere from gracious England haue I offer Of goodly thousands. But for all this,
When I shall treade vpon the Tyrants head, Or weare it on my Sword; yet my poore Country Shall haue more vices then it had before, More suffer, and more sundry wayes then euer, By him that shall succeede
Macd. What should he be?
Mal. It is my selfe I meane: in whom I know All the particulars of Vice so grafted,
That when they shall be open’d, blacke Macbeth Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar’d
With my confinelesse harmes
Macd. Not in the Legions
Of horrid Hell, can come a Diuell more damn’d In euils, to top Macbeth
Mal. I grant him Bloody,
Luxurious, Auaricious, False, Deceitfull, Sodaine, Malicious, smacking of euery sinne That ha’s a name. But there’s no bottome, none In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters, Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire
All continent Impediments would ore-beare That did oppose my will. Better Macbeth, Then such an one to reigne
Macd. Boundlesse intemperance
In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene Th’ vntimely emptying of the happy Throne, And fall of many Kings. But feare not yet To take vpon you what is yours: you may
Conuey your pleasures in a spacious plenty, And yet seeme cold. The time you may so hoodwinke: We haue willing Dames enough: there cannot be That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many
As will to Greatnesse dedicate themselues, Finding it so inclinde
Mal. With this, there growes
In my most ill-composd Affection, such A stanchlesse Auarice, that were I King, I should cut off the Nobles for their Lands, Desire his Iewels, and this others House, And my more-hauing, would be as a Sawce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge Quarrels vniust against the Good and Loyall, Destroying them for wealth
Macd. This Auarice
stickes deeper: growes with more pernicious roote Then Summer-seeming Lust: and it hath bin The Sword of our slaine Kings: yet do not feare, Scotland hath Foysons, to fill vp your will Of your meere Owne. All these are portable, With other Graces weigh’d
Mal. But I haue none. The King-becoming Graces, As Iustice, Verity, Temp’rance, Stablenesse, Bounty, Perseuerance, Mercy, Lowlinesse, Deuotion, Patience, Courage, Fortitude,
I haue no rellish of them, but abound In the diuision of each seuerall Crime,
Acting it many wayes. Nay, had I powre, I should Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell, Vprore the vniuersall peace, confound
All vnity on earth
Macd. O Scotland, Scotland
Mal. If such a one be fit to gouerne, speake: I am as I haue spoken
Mac. Fit to gouern? No not to liue. O Natio[n] miserable! With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholsome dayes againe? Since that the truest Issue of thy Throne By his owne Interdiction stands accust,
And do’s blaspheme his breed? Thy Royall Father Was a most Sainted-King: the Queene that bore thee, Oftner vpon her knees, then on her feet, Dy’de euery day she liu’d. Fare thee well, These Euils thou repeat’st vpon thy selfe, Hath banish’d me from Scotland. O my Brest, Thy hope ends heere
Mal. Macduff, this Noble passion
Childe of integrity, hath from my soule Wip’d the blacke Scruples, reconcil’d my thoughts To thy good Truth, and Honor. Diuellish Macbeth, By many of these traines, hath sought to win me Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me From ouer-credulous hast: but God aboue
Deale betweene thee and me; For euen now I put my selfe to thy Direction, and
Vnspeake mine owne detraction. Heere abiure The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe, For strangers to my Nature. I am yet
Vnknowne to Woman, neuer was forsworne, Scarsely haue coueted what was mine owne. At no time broke my Faith, would not betray The Deuill to his Fellow, and delight
No lesse in truth then life. My first false speaking Was this vpon my selfe. What I am truly
Is thine, and my poore Countries to command: Whither indeed, before they heere approach Old Seyward with ten thousand warlike men Already at a point, was setting foorth:
Now wee’l together, and the chance of goodnesse Be like our warranted Quarrell. Why are you silent? Macd. Such welcome, and vnwelcom things at once ‘Tis hard to reconcile.
Enter a Doctor.
Mal. Well, more anon. Comes the King forth I pray you?
Doct. I Sir: there are a crew of wretched Soules That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces The great assay of Art. But at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand, They presently amend.
Enter.
Mal. I thanke you Doctor
Macd. What’s the Disease he meanes? Mal. Tis call’d the Euill.
A most myraculous worke in this good King, Which often since my heere remaine in England, I haue seene him do: How he solicites heauen Himselfe best knowes: but strangely visited people All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye, The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures, Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes, Put on with holy Prayers, and ’tis spoken To the succeeding Royalty he leaues
The healing Benediction. With this strange vertue, He hath a heauenly guift of Prophesie,
And sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, That speake him full of Grace.
Enter Rosse.
Macd. See who comes heere
Malc. My Countryman: but yet I know him not
Macd. My euer gentle Cozen, welcome hither
Malc. I know him now. Good God betimes remoue The meanes that makes vs Strangers
Rosse. Sir, Amen
Macd. Stands Scotland where it did? Rosse. Alas poore Countrey,
Almost affraid to know it selfe. It cannot Be call’d our Mother, but our Graue; where nothing But who knowes nothing, is once seene to smile: Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre Are made, not mark’d: Where violent sorrow seemes A Moderne extasie: The Deadmans knell,
Is there scarse ask’d for who, and good mens liues Expire before the Flowers in their Caps, Dying, or ere they sicken
Macd. Oh Relation; too nice, and yet too true
Malc. What’s the newest griefe?
Rosse. That of an houres age, doth hisse the speaker, Each minute teemes a new one
Macd. How do’s my Wife?
Rosse. Why well
Macd. And all my Children?
Rosse. Well too
Macd. The Tyrant ha’s not batter’d at their peace? Rosse. No, they were wel at peace, when I did leaue ’em Macd. Be not a niggard of your speech: How gos’t? Rosse. When I came hither to transport the Tydings Which I haue heauily borne, there ran a Rumour Of many worthy Fellowes, that were out,
Which was to my beleefe witnest the rather, For that I saw the Tyrants Power a-foot. Now is the time of helpe: your eye in Scotland Would create Soldiours, make our women fight, To doffe their dire distresses
Malc. Bee’t their comfort
We are comming thither: Gracious England hath Lent vs good Seyward, and ten thousand men, An older, and a better Souldier, none
That Christendome giues out
Rosse. Would I could answer
This comfort with the like. But I haue words That would be howl’d out in the desert ayre, Where hearing should not latch them
Macd. What concerne they,
The generall cause, or is it a Fee-griefe Due to some single brest?
Rosse. No minde that’s honest
But in it shares some woe, though the maine part Pertaines to you alone
Macd. If it be mine
Keepe it not from me, quickly let me haue it
Rosse. Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer, Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound that euer yet they heard
Macd. Humh: I guesse at it
Rosse. Your Castle is surpriz’d: your Wife, and Babes Sauagely slaughter’d: To relate the manner Were on the Quarry of these murther’d Deere To adde the death of you
Malc. Mercifull Heauen:
What man, ne’re pull your hat vpon your browes: Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do’s not speake, Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd. My Children too?
Ro. Wife, Children, Seruants, all that could be found
Macd. And I must be from thence? My wife kil’d too? Rosse. I haue said
Malc. Be comforted.
Let’s make vs Med’cines of our great Reuenge, To cure this deadly greefe
Macd. He ha’s no Children. All my pretty ones? Did you say All? Oh Hell-Kite! All?
What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme At one fell swoope?
Malc. Dispute it like a man
Macd. I shall do so:
But I must also feele it as a man;
I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on, And would not take their part? Sinfull Macduff, They were all strooke for thee: Naught that I am, Not for their owne demerits, but for mine Fell slaughter on their soules: Heauen rest them now
Mal. Be this the Whetstone of your sword, let griefe Conuert to anger: blunt not the heart, enrage it
Macd. O I could play the woman with mine eyes, And Braggart with my tongue. But gentle Heauens, Cut short all intermission: Front to Front, Bring thou this Fiend of Scotland, and my selfe Within my Swords length set him, if he scape Heauen forgiue him too
Mal. This time goes manly:
Come go we to the King, our Power is ready, Our lacke is nothing but our leaue. Macbeth Is ripe for shaking, and the Powres aboue Put on their Instruments: Receiue what cheere you may, The Night is long, that neuer findes the Day.
Exeunt.
Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.
Enter a Doctor of Physicke, and a Wayting Gentlewoman.
Doct. I haue too Nights watch’d with you, but can perceiue no truth in your report. When was it shee last walk’d?
Gent. Since his Maiesty went into the Field, I haue seene her rise from her bed, throw her Night-Gown vppon her, vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it, write vpon’t, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe returne to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleepe
Doct. A great perturbation in Nature, to receyue at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?
Gent. That Sir, which I will not report after her
Doct. You may to me, and ’tis most meet you should
Gent. Neither to you, nor any one, hauing no witnesse to confirme my speech.
Enter Lady, with a Taper.
Lo you, heere she comes: This is her very guise, and vpon my life fast asleepe: obserue her, stand close
Doct. How came she by that light?
Gent. Why it stood by her: she ha’s light by her continually, ’tis her command
Doct. You see her eyes are open
Gent. I, but their sense are shut
Doct. What is it she do’s now?
Looke how she rubbes her hands
Gent. It is an accustom’d action with her, to seeme thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her continue in this a quarter of an houre
Lad. Yet heere’s a spot
Doct. Heark, she speaks, I will set downe what comes from her, to satisfie my remembrance the more strongly
La. Out damned spot: out I say. One: Two: Why then ’tis time to doo’t: Hell is murky. Fye, my Lord, fie, a Souldier, and affear’d? what need we feare? who knowes it, when none can call our powre to accompt: yet who would haue thought the olde man to haue had so much blood in him
Doct. Do you marke that?
Lad. The Thane of Fife, had a wife: where is she now? What will these hands ne’re be cleane? No more o’that my Lord, no more o’that: you marre all with this starting
Doct. Go too, go too:
You haue knowne what you should not
Gent. She ha’s spoke what shee should not, I am sure of that: Heauen knowes what she ha’s knowne
La. Heere’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh
Doct. What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg’d
Gent. I would not haue such a heart in my bosome, for the dignity of the whole body
Doct. Well, well, well
Gent. Pray God it be sir
Doct. This disease is beyond my practise: yet I haue knowne those which haue walkt in their sleep, who haue dyed holily in their beds
Lad. Wash your hands, put on your Night-Gowne, looke not so pale: I tell you yet againe Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s graue
Doct. Euen so?
Lady. To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate: Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What’s done, cannot be vndone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
Exit Lady.
Doct. Will she go now to bed?
Gent. Directly
Doct. Foule whisp’rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets: More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian: God, God forgiue vs all. Looke after her, Remoue from her the meanes of all annoyance, And still keepe eyes vpon her: So goodnight, My minde she ha’s mated, and amaz’d my sight. I thinke, but dare not speake
Gent. Good night good Doctor.
Exeunt.
Scena Secunda.
Drum and Colours. Enter Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, Lenox, Soldiers.
Ment. The English powre is neere, led on by Malcolm, His Vnkle Seyward, and the good Macduff. Reuenges burne in them: for their deere causes Would to the bleeding, and the grim Alarme Excite the mortified man
Ang. Neere Byrnan wood
Shall we well meet them, that way are they comming
Cath. Who knowes if Donalbane be with his brother? Len. For certaine Sir, he is not: I haue a File Of all the Gentry; there is Seywards Sonne, And many vnruffe youths, that euen now
Protest their first of Manhood
Ment. What do’s the Tyrant
Cath. Great Dunsinane he strongly Fortifies: Some say hee’s mad: Others, that lesser hate him, Do call it valiant Fury, but for certaine He cannot buckle his distemper’d cause
Within the belt of Rule
Ang. Now do’s he feele
His secret Murthers sticking on his hands, Now minutely Reuolts vpbraid his Faith-breach: Those he commands, moue onely in command, Nothing in loue: Now do’s he feele his Title Hang loose about him, like a Giants Robe Vpon a dwarfish Theefe
Ment. Who then shall blame
His pester’d Senses to recoyle, and start, When all that is within him, do’s condemne It selfe, for being there
Cath. Well, march we on,
To giue Obedience, where ’tis truly ow’d: Meet we the Med’cine of the sickly Weale, And with him poure we in our Countries purge, Each drop of vs
Lenox. Or so much as it needes,
To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: Make we our March towards Birnan.
Exeunt. marching.
Scaena Tertia.
Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.
Macb. Bring me no more Reports, let them flye all: Till Byrnane wood remoue to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with Feare. What’s the Boy Malcolme? Was he not borne of woman? The Spirits that know All mortall Consequences, haue pronounc’d me thus: Feare not Macbeth, no man that’s borne of woman Shall ere haue power vpon thee. Then fly false Thanes, And mingle with the English Epicures,
The minde I sway by, and the heart I beare, Shall neuer sagge with doubt, nor shake with feare. Enter Seruant.
The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac’d Loone: Where got’st thou that Goose-looke
Ser. There is ten thousand
Macb. Geese Villaine?
Ser. Souldiers Sir
Macb. Go pricke thy face, and ouer-red thy feare Thou Lilly-liuer’d Boy. What Soldiers, Patch? Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine Are Counsailers to feare. What Soldiers Whay-face? Ser. The English Force, so please you
Macb. Take thy face hence. Seyton, I am sick at hart, When I behold: Seyton, I say, this push
Will cheere me euer, or dis-eate me now. I haue liu’d long enough: my way of life Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe, And that which should accompany Old-Age, As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends, I must not looke to haue: but in their steed, Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not. Seyton?
Enter Seyton.
Sey. What’s your gracious pleasure?
Macb. What Newes more?
Sey. All is confirm’d my Lord, which was reported
Macb. Ile fight, till from my bones, my flesh be hackt. Giue me my Armor
Seyt. ‘Tis not needed yet
Macb. Ile put it on:
Send out moe Horses, skirre the Country round, Hang those that talke of Feare. Giue me mine Armor: How do’s your Patient, Doctor?
Doct. Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is troubled with thicke-comming Fancies That keepe her from her rest
Macb. Cure of that:
Can’st thou not Minister to a minde diseas’d, Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, And with some sweet Obliuious Antidote
Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe Which weighes vpon the heart?
Doct. Therein the Patient
Must minister to himselfe
Macb. Throw Physicke to the Dogs, Ile none of it. Come, put mine Armour on: giue me my Staffe: Seyton, send out: Doctor, the Thanes flye from me: Come sir, dispatch. If thou could’st Doctor, cast The Water of my Land, finde her Disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine Health, I would applaud thee to the very Eccho,
That should applaud againe. Pull’t off I say, What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge Would scowre these English hence: hear’st y of them? Doct. I my good Lord: your Royall Preparation Makes vs heare something
Macb. Bring it after me:
I will not be affraid of Death and Bane, Till Birnane Forrest come to Dunsinane
Doct. Were I from Dunsinane away, and cleere, Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
Exeunt.
Scena Quarta.
Drum and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, Seywards Sonne,
Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, and Soldiers Marching.
Malc. Cosins, I hope the dayes are neere at hand That Chambers will be safe
Ment. We doubt it nothing
Seyw. What wood is this before vs?
Ment. The wood of Birnane
Malc. Let euery Souldier hew him downe a Bough, And bear’t before him, thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our Hoast, and make discouery Erre in report of vs
Sold. It shall be done
Syw. We learne no other, but the confident Tyrant Keepes still in Dunsinane, and will indure Our setting downe befor’t
Malc. ‘Tis his maine hope:
For where there is aduantage to be giuen, Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt, And none serue with him, but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too
Macd. Let our iust Censures
Attend the true euent, and put we on Industrious Souldiership
Sey. The time approaches,
That will with due decision make vs know What we shall say we haue, and what we owe: Thoughts speculatiue, their vnsure hopes relate, But certaine issue, stroakes must arbitrate, Towards which, aduance the warre.
Exeunt. marching
Scena Quinta.
Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with Drum and Colours.
Macb. Hang out our Banners on the outward walls, The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye, Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours, We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard, And beate them backward home. What is that noyse?
A Cry within of Women.
Sey. It is the cry of women, my good Lord
Macb. I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares: The time ha’s beene, my sences would haue cool’d To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre As life were in’t. I haue supt full with horrors, Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The Queene (my Lord) is dead
Macb. She should haue dy’de heereafter; There would haue beene a time for such a word: To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, To the last Syllable of Recorded time:
And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle, Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, And then is heard no more. It is a Tale
Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.
Enter a Messenger.
Thou com’st to vse thy Tongue: thy Story quickly
Mes. Gracious my Lord,
I should report that which I say I saw, But know not how to doo’t
Macb. Well, say sir
Mes. As I did stand my watch vpon the Hill I look’d toward Byrnane, and anon me thought The Wood began to moue
Macb. Lyar, and Slaue
Mes. Let me endure your wrath, if’t be not so: Within this three Mile may you see it comming. I say, a mouing Groue
Macb. If thou speak’st false,
Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in Resolution, and begin
To doubt th’ Equiuocation of the Fiend, That lies like truth. Feare not, till Byrnane Wood Do come to Dunsinane, and now a Wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arme, Arme, and out, If this which he auouches, do’s appeare, There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. I ‘ginne to be a-weary of the Sun,
And wish th’ estate o’th’ world were now vndon. Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, At least wee’l dye with Harnesse on our backe.
Exeunt.
Scena Sexta.
Drumme and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, and their Army,
with Boughes.
Mal. Now neere enough:
Your leauy Skreenes throw downe,
And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle) Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne Leade our first Battell. Worthy Macduffe, and wee Shall take vpon’s what else remaines to do, According to our order
Sey. Fare you well:
Do we but finde the Tyrants power to night, Let vs be beaten, if we cannot fight
Macd. Make all our Trumpets speak, giue the[m] all breath Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death.
Exeunt.
Alarums continued.
Scena Septima.
Enter Macbeth.
Macb. They haue tied me to a stake, I cannot flye, But Beare-like I must fight the course. What’s he That was not borne of Woman? Such a one
Am I to feare, or none.
Enter young Seyward.
Y.Sey. What is thy name?
Macb. Thou’lt be affraid to heare it
Y.Sey. No: though thou call’st thy selfe a hoter name Then any is in hell
Macb. My name’s Macbeth
Y.Sey. The diuell himselfe could not pronounce a Title More hatefull to mine eare
Macb. No: nor more fearefull
Y.Sey. Thou lyest abhorred Tyrant, with my Sword Ile proue the lye thou speak’st.
Fight, and young Seyward slaine.
Macb. Thou was’t borne of woman;
But Swords I smile at, Weapons laugh to scorne, Brandish’d by man that’s of a Woman borne. Enter.
Alarums. Enter Macduffe.
Macd. That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face, If thou beest slaine, and with no stroake of mine, My Wife and Childrens Ghosts will haunt me still: I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes Are hyr’d to beare their Staues; either thou Macbeth, Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge I sheath againe vndeeded. There thou should’st be, By this great clatter, one of greatest note Seemes bruited. Let me finde him Fortune, And more I begge not.
Exit. Alarums.
Enter Malcolme and Seyward.
Sey. This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred: The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight, The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre, The day almost it selfe professes yours, And little is to do
Malc. We haue met with Foes
That strike beside vs
Sey. Enter Sir, the Castle.
Exeunt. Alarum
Enter Macbeth.
Macb. Why should I play the Roman Foole, and dye On mine owne sword? whiles I see liues, the gashes Do better vpon them.
Enter Macduffe.
Macd. Turne Hell-hound, turne
Macb. Of all men else I haue auoyded thee: But get thee backe, my soule is too much charg’d With blood of thine already
Macd. I haue no words,
My voice is in my Sword, thou bloodier Villaine Then tearmes can giue thee out.
Fight: Alarum
Macb. Thou loosest labour
As easie may’st thou the intrenchant Ayre With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable Crests, I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld To one of woman borne
Macd. Dispaire thy Charme,
And let the Angell whom thou still hast seru’d Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb Vntimely ript
Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; For it hath Cow’d my better part of man: And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu’d, That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare, And breake it to our hope. Ile not fight with thee
Macd. Then yeeld thee Coward,
And liue to be the shew, and gaze o’th’ time. Wee’l haue thee, as our rarer Monsters are Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ,
Heere may you see the Tyrant
Macb. I will not yeeld
To kisse the ground before young Malcolmes feet, And to be baited with the Rabbles curse. Though Byrnane wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou oppos’d, being of no woman borne, Yet I will try the last. Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn’d be him, that first cries hold, enough.
Exeunt. fighting. Alarums.
Enter Fighting, and Macbeth slaine.
Retreat, and Flourish. Enter with Drumme and Colours, Malcolm, Seyward,
Rosse, Thanes, & Soldiers.
Mal. I would the Friends we misse, were safe arriu’d
Sey. Some must go off: and yet by these I see, So great a day as this is cheapely bought
Mal. Macduffe is missing, and your Noble Sonne
Rosse. Your son my Lord, ha’s paid a souldiers debt, He onely liu’d but till he was a man,
The which no sooner had his Prowesse confirm’d In the vnshrinking station where he fought, But like a man he dy’de
Sey. Then he is dead?
Rosse. I, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow Must not be measur’d by his worth, for then It hath no end
Sey. Had he his hurts before?
Rosse. I, on the Front
Sey. Why then, Gods Soldier be he:
Had I as many Sonnes, as I haue haires, I would not wish them to a fairer death: And so his Knell is knoll’d
Mal. Hee’s worth more sorrow,
and that Ile spend for him
Sey. He’s worth no more,
They say he parted well, and paid his score, And so God be with him. Here comes newer comfort. Enter Macduffe, with Macbeths head.
Macd. Haile King, for so thou art.
Behold where stands
Th’ Vsurpers cursed head: the time is free: I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle, That speake my salutation in their minds: Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine.
Haile King of Scotland
All. Haile King of Scotland.
Flourish.
Mal. We shall not spend a large expence of time, Before we reckon with your seuerall loues, And make vs euen with you. My Thanes and Kinsmen Henceforth be Earles, the first that euer Scotland In such an Honor nam’d: What’s more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exil’d Friends abroad, That fled the Snares of watchfull Tyranny, Producing forth the cruell Ministers
Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene; Who (as ’tis thought) by selfe and violent hands, Tooke off her life. This, and what need full else That call’s vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace, We will performe in measure, time, and place: So thankes to all at once, and to each one, Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown’d at Scone.
Flourish. Exeunt Omnes.
FINIS. THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH.