MUR. Fleance is 'scap'd. Most royal sir, MACB. Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect; Whole as the marble, founded as the rock: As broad and general as the casing air : But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in that 's fled, MACB. LADY M. 30 [Exit Murderer. My royal lord, You do not give the cheer; the feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 't is a making, 'T is given with welcome: To feed, were best at home; From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony, Meeting were bare without it. MACB. Sweet remembrancer! Now, good digestion wait on appetite, LEN. May it please your highness, sit? Enter the Ghost of BANQUO and sits in MACBETH's place. Than pity for mischance! ROSSE. His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise. Please it your highness 23 Casing air. So in Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3"Ye elements that clip us all about.' Importunate doubts. 25 Saucy doubts. 33 Give the cheer. ment to your guests. 4I You do not give the proper encourage- you do not often bid your guests welcome. 36 From thence. When one is away from home. 38 Good digestion. A 'somewhat physiological grace,' as Dr. Bucknill calls it. 40 Had we now . roof'd. We should now have all the noblest of our country under one roof. To grace us with your royal company? LEN. Here is a place reserved, sir. LEN. Here, my good lord. What is 't that moves your highness? MACB. Which of you have done this? LORDS. What, my good lord? MACB. Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ROSSE. Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well. LADY M. Sit, worthy friends :-my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth: 'pray you, keep seat; The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well: If much you note him, MACB. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that LADY M. O proper stuff! Authoriz'd by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all 's done, 50 бо MACB. Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.— 70 If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send Those that we bury, back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. 63 These flaws. These gusts and starts which are the parodies of true fear, as far as the reality of their object is concerned. 66 Authorized. The second syllable is long. The meaning is a story the veracity of which is vouched for by her grandmother.' ib. Shame itself. She speaks to him as to an infant. 69 How say you? Addressed to the ghost; the preceding words to the queen. LADY M. What! quite unmann'd in folly? MACB. If I stand here, I saw him. LADY M. Fie, for shame! MACB. Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murthers have been performed LADY M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. I do forget : Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends; I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing 80 To those that know me. Come, love and health to all: Then I'll sit down :-Give me some wine, fill full :— Enter Ghost. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, LORDS. Our duties, and the pledge. 90 MACB. Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! 75 Blood hath been shed ere now. "A thrust with a dirk or a stroke with a sword was the time-hallowed and custom-acknow. ledged method of ridding the world of an enemy, and Bothwell had evidently not been prepared for such an outburst of passion about a mere murder." (Froude, History of England, ix. p. 9.) Though Shakspere could not remember Darnley's murder (which happened when he was three years old), yet the accession of James seems to have directed his thoughts that way, as the murder and remarriage in Hamlet may show. And thus the words 'push us from our stools' may here refer indirectly to Mary's dethronement. See the note on Act i. Sc. 7. 76 The gentle weal. Before statutes purged the commonwealth into gentleness-prolepsis. 91 To all and him we thirst. 'I long to drink his health and that of all: and to wish every one all good.' Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; LADY M. Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom : 't is no other; MACB. What man may dare, I dare: 100 [Ghost disappears. Unreal mockery, hence !-Why, so ;-being gone, I am a man again.—Pray you, sit still. LADY M. You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder. MACB. Can such things be, IIO And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear. ROSSE. What sights, my lord? LADY M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night :— But go at once. 96 No speculation. None of a living man's intelligence. See Messrs. Clark and Wright's note. 105 I inhabit then. If I keep house, shrink under shelter; but the emendation I inhibit thee' (refuse thee) is to be preferred. 106 The baby of a girl. The doll which a girl plays with, ‘a babe of clouts.' III Overcome us. Come over us. 113 The disposition that I owe. You make me surprised even at my own disposition. So Dr. Delius: it might be even at the firmness of my own wife, which I ought to know.' MACB. It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth LADY M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which. MACB. How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person, At our great bidding? LADY M. I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; 130 140 LADY M. You lack the season of all natures, sleep. MACB. Come, we'll to sleep: My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear, that wants hard use:We are yet but young in deed. [Exeunt. 122 Blood will have blood. So Wordsworth (vii. p. 171) speaks of the 66 Beliefs coiled serpent-like about The adage on all tongues, 'murder will out."" 124 Augurs and understood relations. That is, augurs by the help of understood relations between omens and events-hendiadys. 130 I hear it by the way. I only heard casually that he intended to refuse if I sent for him. 133 Betimes. To be sounded like a monosyllable; weird as a dissyllable. 142 My strange and self-abuse. My strange misuse of myself is but a beginner's fear which harder practice dispels. The objective self is treated as an adjective, as in 5, 7, 100. E |