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Macbeth
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The classic story of all-consuming ambition, madness, and tyranny.
When three witches share a prophecy with Macbeth that foretells he will sit on the throne of Scotland, he does not wait for destiny to run its course. Instead, he and his wife plot to kill the presiding kingâan act that will lead them not to greatness but to ruin.
This play, extraordinary in its intrigue and psychological insight, has cast a powerful spell on audiences and readers since the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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Shakespeare-DramaAct IV
SCENE I.
A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches
First Witch
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewâd.
Second Witch
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Third Witch
Harpier cries âTis time, âtis time.
First Witch
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisonâd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelterâd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first iâ the charmed pot.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adderâs fork and blind-wormâs sting,
Lizardâs leg and owletâs wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witchesâ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravinâd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock diggâd iâ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silverâd in the moonâs eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartarâs lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliverâd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tigerâs chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Cool it with a baboonâs blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Enter HECATE to the other three Witches
HECATE
O well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share iâ the gains;
And now about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
Music and a song: âBlack spirits,â& c
HECATE retires
Second Witch
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Enter MACBETH
MACBETH
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
What isât you do?
ALL
A deed without a name.
MACBETH
I conjure you, by that which you profess,
Howeâer you come to know it, answer me:
Though you untie the winds and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yesty waves
Confound and swallow navigation up;
Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their wardersâ heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of natureâs germens tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken; answer me
To what I ask you.
First Witch
Speak.
Second Witch
Demand.
Third Witch
Weâll answer.
First Witch
Say, if thouâdst rather hear it from our mouths,
Or from our masters?
MACBETH
Call âem; let me see âem.
First Witch
Pour in sowâs blood, that hath eaten
Her nine farrow; grease thatâs sweaten
From the murdererâs gibbet throw
Into the flame.
ALL
Come, high or low;
Thyself and office deftly show!
Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head
MACBETH
Tell me, thou unknown power,â
First Witch
He knows thy thought:
Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
First Apparition
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.
Descends
MACBETH
Whateâer thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;
Thou hast harpâd my fear aright: but one
word more,â
First Witch
He will not be commanded: hereâs another,
More potent than the first.
Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child
Second Apparition
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
MACBETH
Had I three ears, Iâld hear thee.
Second Apparition
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
Descends
MACBETH
Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?
But yet Iâll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;
That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
And sleep in spite of thunder.
Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his
hand
What is this
That rises like the issue of a king,
And wears upon his baby-brow the round
And top of so...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Act IV
- Act V
- Copyright