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+ y�---
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+ Act I, Scene
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+ A desert place.
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+ ---
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+ First Witch. When shall we three meet again
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+ In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
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+ Second Witch. When the hurlyburly's done,
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+ When the battle's lost and won.
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+ Third Witch. That will be ere the set of sun.
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+ First Witch. Where the place?
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+ Second Witch. Upon the heath.
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+ Third Witch. There to meet with Macbeth.
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+ First Witch. I come, Graymalkin!
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+ Second Witch. Paddock calls.
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+ Third Witch. Anon.
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+ All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
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+ Hover through the fog and filthy air.
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+
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+ ---
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+ Act I, Scene
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+
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+ A camp near Forres.
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+ ---
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+ Duncan. What bloody man is that? He can report,
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+ As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
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+ The newest state.
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+ Malcolm. This is the sergeant
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+ Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
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+ 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
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+ Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
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+ As thou didst leave it.
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+ Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;
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+ As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
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+ And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald-
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+ Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
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+ The multiplying villanies of nature
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+ Do swarm upon him-from the western isles
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+ Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
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+ And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
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+ Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
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+ For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-
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+ Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
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+ Which smoked with bloody execution,
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+ Like valour's minion carved out his passage
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+ Till he faced the slave;
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+ Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
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+ Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
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+ And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
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+ Duncan. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
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+ Sergeant. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
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+ Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
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+ So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
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+ Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
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+ No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
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+ Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
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+ But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
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+ With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
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+ Began a fresh assault.
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+ Duncan. Dismay'd not this
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+ Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
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+ Sergeant. Yes;
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+ As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
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+ If I say sooth, I must report they were
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+ As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
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+ Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
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+ Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
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+ Or memorise another Golgotha,
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+ I cannot tell.
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+ But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
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+ Duncan. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
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+ They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
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+ [Exit Sergeant, attended]
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+ Who comes here?
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+ [Enter ROSS]
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+ Malcolm. The worthy thane of Ross.
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+ Lennox. What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
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+ That seems to speak things strange.
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+ Ross. God save the king!
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+ Duncan. Whence camest thou, worthy thane?
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+ Ross. From Fife, great king;
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+ Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
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+ And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
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+ With terrible numbers,
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+ Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
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+ The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
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+ Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
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+ Confronted him with self-comparisons,
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+ Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
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+ Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
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+ The victory fell on us.
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+ Duncan. Great happiness!
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+ Ross. That now
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+ Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
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+ Nor would we deign him burial of his men
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+ Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
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+ Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
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+ Duncan. No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
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+ Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
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+ And with his former title greet Macbeth.
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+ Ross. I'll see it done.
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+ Duncan. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.
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+ [Exeunt]
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+ ---
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+ Act I, Scene
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+ A heath near Forres.
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+ ---
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+ [Thunder. Enter the three Witches]
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+ First Witch. Where hast thou been, sister?
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+ Second Witch. Killing swine.
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+ Third Witch. Sister, where thou?
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+ First Witch. A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
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+ And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-
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+ 'Give me,' quoth I:
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+ 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
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+ Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
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+ Buty� in a sieve I'll thither sail,
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+ And, like a rat without a tail,
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+ I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
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+ Second Witch. I'll give thee a wind.
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+ First Witch. Thou'rt kind.
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+ Third Witch. And I another.
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+ First Witch. I myself have all the other,
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+ And the very ports they blow,
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+ All the quarters that they know
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+ I' the shipman's card.
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+ I will drain him dry as hay:
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+ Sleep shall neither night nor day
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+ Hang upon his pent-house lid;
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+ He shall live a man forbid:
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+ Weary se'nnights nine times nine
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+ Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
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+ Though his bark cannot be lost,
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+ Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
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+ Look what I have.
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+ Second Witch. Show me, show me.
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+ First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb,
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+ Wreck'd as homeward he did come.
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+ [Drum within]
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+ Third Witch. A drum, a drum!
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+ Macbeth doth come.
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+ All. The weird sisters, hand in hand,
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+ Posters of the sea and land,
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+ Thus do go about, about:
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+ Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
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+ And thrice again, to make up nine.
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+ Peace! the charm's wound up.
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+ [Enter MACBETH and BANQUO]
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+ Macbeth. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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+ Banquo. How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
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+ So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
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+ That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
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+ And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
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+ That man may question? You seem to understand me,
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+ By each at once her chappy finger laying
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+ Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
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+ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
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+ That you are so.
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+ Macbeth. Speak, if you can: what are you?
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+ First Witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
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+ Second Witch. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
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+ Third Witch. All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
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+ Banquo. Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
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+ Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
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+ Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
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+ Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
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+ You greet with present grace and great prediction
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+ Of noble having and of royal hope,
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+ That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
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+ If you can look into the seeds of time,
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+ And say which grain will grow and which will not,
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+ Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
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+ Your favours nor your hate.
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+ First Witch. Hail!
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+ Second Witch. Hail!
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+ Third Witch. Hail!
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+ First Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
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+ Second Witch. Not so happy, yet much happier.
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+ Third Witch. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
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+ So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
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+ First Witch. Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
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+ Macbeth. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
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+ By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;
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+ But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
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+ A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
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+ Stands not within the prospect of belief,
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+ No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
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+ You owe this strange intelligence? or why
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+ Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
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+ With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
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+ [Witches vanish]
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+ Banquo. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
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+ And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?
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+ Macbeth. Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted
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+ As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
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+ Banquo. Were such things here as we do speak about?
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+ Or have we eaten on the insane root
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+ That takes the reason prisoner?
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+ Macbeth. Your children shall be kings.
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+ Banquo. You shall be king.
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+ Macbeth. And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?
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+ Banquo. To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?
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+ [Enter ROSS and ANGUS]
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+ Ross. The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
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+ The news of thy success; and when he reads
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+ Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
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+ His wonders and his praises do contend
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+ Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
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+ In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
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+ He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
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+ Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
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+ Strange images of death. As thick as hail
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+ Came post with post; and every one did bear
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+ Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
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+ And pour'd them down before him.
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+ Angus. We are sent
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+ To give thee from our royal master thanks;
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+ Only to herald thee into his sight,
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+ Not pay thee.
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+ Ross. And, for an eary �nest of a greater honour,
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+ He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
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+ In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
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+ For it is thine.
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+ Banquo. What, can the devil speak true?
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+ Macbeth. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
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+ In borrow'd robes?
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+ Angus. Who was the thane lives yet;
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+ But under heavy judgment bears that life
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+ Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
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+ With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
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+ With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
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+ He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;
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+ But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
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+ Have overthrown him.
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+ Macbeth. [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
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+ The greatest is behind.
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+ [To ROSS and ANGUS]
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+ Thanks for your pains.
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+ [To BANQUO]
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+ Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
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+ When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
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+ Promised no less to them?
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+ Banquo. That trusted home
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+ Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
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+ Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:
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+ And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
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+ The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
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+ Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
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+ In deepest consequence.
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+ Cousins, a word, I pray you.
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+ Macbeth. [Aside]. Two truths are told,
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+ As happy prologues to the swelling act
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+ Of the imperial theme.-I thank you, gentlemen.
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+ [Aside] This supernatural soliciting]
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+ Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
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+ Why hath it given me earnest of success,
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+ Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
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+ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
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+ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
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+ And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
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+ Against the use of nature? Present fears
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+ Are less than horrible imaginings:
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+ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
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+ Shakes so my single state of man that function
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+ Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
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+ But what is not.
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+ Banquo. Look, how our partner's rapt.
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+ Macbeth. [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
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+ Without my stir.
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+ Banquo. New horrors come upon him,
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+ Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
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+ But with the aid of use.
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+ Macbeth. [Aside] Come what come may,
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+ Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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+ Banquo. Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
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+ Macbeth. Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought
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+ With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
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+ Are register'd where every day I turn
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+ The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
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+ Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,
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+ The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak
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+ Our free hearts each to other.
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+ Banquo. Very gladly.
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+ Macbeth. Till then, enough. Come, friends.
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