As easy may'st thou the intrenchant air 7 I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. Macd. Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells me sò, For it hath cow'd my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believ❜d, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee, And live to be the show and gaze o'the time. Here may you see the tyrant. Macb. I'll not yield, To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, Retreat. Flourish. Re-enter with Drum and Colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, ROSSE, LENOX, ANGUS, CATHNESS, MENTETH, and Soldiers. Mal. I would, the friends we miss were safe arriv'd. The air which cannot be cut. 8 Shuffle. Siw. Some must go off: and yet, by these I see, So great a day as this is cheaply bought. Mal. Macduff is missing, and your noble son. Rosse. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt: He only liv'd but till he was a man ; The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd Siw. Then he is dead? Rosse. Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow Must not be measur'd by his worth, for then It hath no end. Siw. Had he his hurts before? Rosse. Ay, on the front. Siw. Why then, God's soldier be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death: Mal. He's worth more sorrow, And that I'll spend for him. Siw. He's worth no more; They say, he parted well, and paid his score: fort. Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH'S Head on a Pole. Macd. Hail, king! for so thou art: Behold, The usurper's cursed head: the time is free: Hail, king of Scotland! All. King of Scotland, hail! [Flourish. Mal. We shall not spend a large expence of time, Before we reckon with your several loves, And make us even with you. kinsmen, My thanes and Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen; KING JOHN: PRINCE HENRY, his son; afterwards K. Henry III. ARTHUR, Duke of Bretagne, son of Geffrey, late Duke of Bretagne, the elder brother of King John WILLIAM MARESHALL, Earl of Pembroke. GEFFREY FITZ-PETER, Earl of Essex, chief justiciary of England. WILLIAM LONGSWORD, Earl of Salisbury. HUBERT DE BURGH, chamberlain to the King. ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge. PHILIP FAULCONBRIDGE, his half-brother, bastard son to King Richard the First. JAMES GURNEY, servant to Lady Faulconbridge. PHILIP, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA. CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope's legate. MELUN, a French lord. CHATILLON, ambassador from France to King John. ELINOR, the widow of King Henry II. and mother of King John. CONSTANCE, mother to Arthur. BLANCH, daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and niece to King John. LADY FAULCONBRIDGE, mother to the Bastard, and Robert Faulconbridge. Lords, Ladies, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attend ants. SCENE, sometimes in England, and sometimes in |