life in me, would preferment drop on my head. Hark! the kings and the princes, our kindred, I brought the old man and his fon aboard the are going to fee the queen's picture. Come, follow prince; told him, I heard them talk of a farthel, us: we'll be thy good masters. and I know not what: but he at that time, over fond of the shepherd's daughter, (fo he then took SCENE III. Paulina's House. [Excunt. her to be) who began to be much fea-fick, and Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Florizzel, Perdita, Camille, himself little better, extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remained undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me for had I been the finder-out of this fecret, it would not have relifh'd among my other difcredits. Enter Shepherd and Clown, Here come those I have done good to againft my will, and already appearing in the bloffoms of their fortune.. Paulina, Lords and Attendants. Leo. O grave and good Paulina, the great comThat I have had of thee ! [fort Paul. What, fovereign fir, I did not well, I meant well: All my fervices You have paid nome: but that you have vouchíaf'd, With your crown'd brother, and these your con tracted Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to vifit; Sbep. Come, boy; I am paft more children; but It is a furplus of your grace, which never thy fous and daughters will be all gentlemen born. My life may lait to anfwer. C/s. You are well met, fr: You denied to fight Leo. O Paulina, with me this other day, because I was no gentle- We honour you with trouble: But we came man born: See you these clothes? fay, you fee To fee the statue of our queen: your gallery them not, and think me ftill no gentleman born: Have we pats'd through, not without much content you were beft fay, these robes are not gentlemen In many fingularities; but we faw not bom. Give me the lie; do; and try whether I am not now a gentleman born. Aut. I know, you are now, fir, a gentleman born. Clo. Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. Shep. And fo have 1, boy. Clo. So you have: -but I was a gentleman born before my father for the king's fon took me by the hand, and call'd me brother; and then the two kings call'd my father, brother; and then the prince, my brother, and the princess, my fifter, call'd my father, father; and fo we wept and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed. Shep. We may live, fon, to shed many more. Clo. Ay; or elfe 'twere hard luck, being in fo prepofterous eftate as we are. Aut. I humbly beseech you, fir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worthip, and to give me your good report to the prince my mafter. Shep. 'Pr'ythee, fon, do; for we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen. Clo. Thou wilt amend thy life ? dat. Ay, an it like your good worship. Clo. Give me thy hand: I will fwear to prince, thou art as honeft a true fellow as any Bohemia. Stup. You may fay it, but not fwear it. the is in That which my daughter came to look upon, Paul. As the liv'd peerless, 1 eo. Her natural posture! Chide me, dear stone; that I may fay, indeed, Pol, Oh, not by much. Paul. Somuch the more our carver's excellences Leo. As now the might have done, Clo. Not fwear it, now I am a gentleman? Let 1 am asham'd: Does not the ftone rebuke me, boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it. Step. How if it be false, fon? Clo. If it be ne'er fo falfe, a true gentleman may fwear it, in the behalf of his friend: -And I'll fwear to the prince, thou art a tall 2 fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know, thou art no tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunk; but I'll swear it and I would, thou would'st be a tall fellow of thy hands. Aut. I will prove so, fir, to my power. Cin. Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: If For being more ftone than it ?--Oh, royal piece, Per. And give me leave; Paul. Oh, patience 3; I do not wonder, how thou dar'st venture to be The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's drunk, not being a tall fellow, trust me not.- Not dry. Franklin is a freeholder, or yeoman, a man above a villain, but not a gentleman, 31. c. stay a while, be not so eager. 2 i. c. tout. Cam. Cam. My lord, your forrow was too fore laid on; I'll fill your grave up: stir; nay, come away; Which fixteen winters cannot blow away; So many fummers, dry: scarce any joy Did ever fo long live; no forrow, But kill'd itself much fooner. Pol. Dear my brother, Make me to think so twenty years together; The pleafure of that madness. Let 't alone. [but Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him Dear life redeems you. You perceive, she stirs : [Hermione comes down. Start not; her actions shall be holy, as, You hear, my fpell is lawful: do not shun her, Until you fee her die again; for then You kill her double: Nay, present your hand: When she was young, you woo'd her; now, in age, Is the become the fuitor. Leo. Oh, the's warm ! If this be magick, let it be an art Pol. She embraces him. Cam. She hangs about his neck; [Embracing ber. If the pertain to life, let her speak too. Pol. Ay, and make't manifeft where she has liv'd, Or how ftol'n from the dead? Paul. That the is living, Were it but told you, should be hooted at [Presenting Perdita, rubo kneels to Hermione. Her. You gods, look down, And from your facred vials pour your graces Upon my daughter's head!----Tell me, mine own, Where haft thou heen preferv'd? where liv'd? how found Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear, that 1, Paul. I am forry, fir, I have thus far stirr'd you Knowing by Paulina, that the oracle I could afflict you further. Leo. Do, Paulina ; For this affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks, There is an air comes from her: What fine chizzel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, For I will kiss her. Paul. Good my lord, forbear: You'll mar it, if you kiss it; stain your own P'er. So long could I Stand by, a looker on. Paul. Either forbear, Quit presently the chapel; or refolve you Leo. What you can make her do, To make her ípeak, os move. Paul. It is requir'd, Gave hope thou wast in being,-have preferv'd Paul. There's time enough for that; Will wing me to fome wither'd bough; and there Leo. O peace, Paulina; Thou should ft a husband take by my confent, And made between's by vows. Thou haft found mine; But how, is to be question'd: for I faw her, You do awake your faith: Then, all stand still; My ill fufpicion. This your fon-in-law, I am about, let them depart. Leo. Proceed; No foot shall itir. Paul. Mufick: awake her: ftrike.- [Musick. 'Tis time; defcend; bestone no more: approach; Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come; : pardons, That e'er I put between your holy looks The Ghoft of Banquo, and feveral 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 Caflic. Witch. W Enter three Witches. HEN shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2 Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's loft and won : 3 Witch. That will be ere th' fet of fun. 1 Witch. Where the place ? 2 Witch. Upon the heath: 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Gray-malkin! All. Paddock calls: Anon Fair is foul, and foul is fair 2: Hover through the fog and filthy air. SCENE II. Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lenox, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain. King. What bloody man is that? He can report, As feemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Mal. This is the ferjeant, Who like a good and hardy foldier fought I. 'Gainft my captivity: Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil, As thou didst leave it. Cap. Doubtful it stood; As two fpent fwimmers, that do cling together, Do fwarm upon him) from the western ifles Like valour's minion, carved out his paffage, And ne'er fhook hands, nor bade farewel to him, King. Oh, valiant coufin! worthy gentleman ! Cap. As whence the fun 'gins his reflexion 4, Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break; So from that fpring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Difcomfort fwells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: No fooner juftice had, with valour arm'd, Mr. Upton observes, that to understand this passage, we should suppose one familiar calling with the voice of a cat, and another with the croaking of a toad. 2 i. e. we make these sudden changes of the weather. 3 Warburton thinks we should read, from the nape to the chops; i. e. cut his skull in two. 4 i. c. the east. Compell'd 1 3 Witch. Sifter, where thou? 1 Witch. A failor's wife had chefnuts in her far, And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht: Give me, quoth I. Argint & thee, witch! the rump-fed6ronyon 7 cries, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind. 1 Witch. Thou art kind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other; And the very & points they blow, I will drain him dry as hay: Lex. What a hafte looks through his eyes! So Though his bark cannot be loft, should he look, That feems to speak things ftrange. Reffe. God fave the king! King. Whence cam'it thou, worthy thane? Where the Norweyan banners flout 2 the sky, The thane of Cawdor, began a difmal conflict: King. Great happiness! Sweno, the Norways' king, craves compofition; 'Till he difburfed, at Saint Colmes' inch 4, Yet it shall be tempeft-toft. 2 Witch. Shew me, shew me. I Witab. Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd, as homeward he did come. [Drum within 3 Witch. A drum, a drum; Macbeth doth come. All. The weird fifters 10, hand in hand, Pofters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about; Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, Enter Macbeth and Banquo. So wither'd, and fo wild in their attire; Ten thousand dollars to our general ufe. [ceive By each at once her choppy finger laying King. No more that thane of Cawdor shall de- Upon her skinny lips :---You should be women, Our bosom interest :-Go, pronounce his prefent And yet your beards 12 forbid me to interpret And with his former title greet Macbeth. [death, That you are fo. hereafter. Ban. Good fir, why do you start; and feem to Memorize, for make memorable. 2 To flout is to mock or infult. 3 i. e. gave him as good as he brought, snew'd he was his equal. 4 Colme's inch, now called Inchcomb, a {mall ifland lying in the Firth of Edinburgh, with an abbey upon it, dedicated to St. Columb; called by Camden Inch Colm, or the ifle of Columba. 5 Areint, or avaunt, be gone. The weird fifter here alludes to the poverty of the woman who had called her witch, as not being able to procure better provifion than rumps and other offals. 7 i. e. fcabby or mangy wonan; from rogneux, тоупе, fcurf. true exact points. 9 i. e. as one under a curse, an interdiction. 10 Weird is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word fignifying a prophecy. The weird fifters here mean the Fates or Deftimes of the northern nations. 11 i, e. may hold converfe with. 12 Witches were fuppofed always to have han on their chins. 8 i. e. the i Things that do found fo fair? I'the name of truth, Only to herald thee into his fight, 1 Witch. Leffer than Macbeth, and greater. So, all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! 1 Witch. Banquo, and Macbeth, all hail! Not pay thee. Roffe. And, for an earnest of a greater honour, Ban. What, can the devil speak true? [dress me Ang. Who was the thane, lives yet; Mach. Glamis, and thane of Cawdor: Ban, That, trusted home 6, No more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whence you. nifh'd? [melted As happy prologues to the fwelling act [you. Mach. Into the air; and what feem'd corporal, Of the imperial theme. I thank you, gentlemen. As breath into the wind.-'Would they had ftaid! This fupernatural foliciting Ban. Were fuch things here, as we do fpeak Cannot be ill; cannot be good:- If ill, Or have we eaten of the infane root 4, That takes the reason prifoner? Mach. Your children shall be kings. [about? Why hath it given me earnett of fuccefs, Ban. You shall he king. Ban. To the felf-lame tune, and words. here? Enter Roffe and Angus. Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor Roffe. The king hath happily receiv'd, Macbeth, Ii. e. creatures of fantasy or imagination. 2 Having, we have before observed, is eftate, poflemon, fortune. 3 The father of Macheth. 4 Shakipeare here alludes to the qualities anciently atcribed to hemlock. 5 That is, pofts arrived as fast as they could be counted. 6 i. e. carried as far as it will go. 1 Enkindle, for to ftimulate you to feck. 8 Warburton thinks foliciting 18 here put for information; while Johnfon rather thinks it means incitement. 9 Meaning, "Of things now about me I have no perception, being intent wholly on that which has yet no existence." 10 1. c. was worked, agitated. |