SEYWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English Forces. YOUNG SEYWARD, his Son. SEYTON, un Officer attending on Macbeth. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. LADY MACBeth. LADY MACDuff. Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, The Ghost of Banquo, and several other Apparitions. SCENE, in the end of the Fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Castle. SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. 1 Witch. HEN shall we three meet again 2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. 3 Witch. That will be ere the set of sun. 1 Witch. Where the place? 2 Witch. Upon the heath. 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin! 2 Witch. 3 Witch. Paddock calls. All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air. Anon. [Witches vanish. SCENE II. A Camp near Fores. Alarum within. Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier. Duncan. Ws Teemeth by his plight, of the revolt HAT bloody man is that? He can report, The newest state. Mal. Sold. * * 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 k; But all's too weak For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Like Valour's minion, Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave; * * * * * Which never 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. Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sold. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break; So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, |