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I pray you, remember the porter. Porter Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

This is the door. Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! Banquo and Donalbain! As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, To countenance this horror! Ring the bell. What, in our house? Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so. No man: The expedition my violent love Outrun the pauser, reason. Fears and scruples shake us: In the great hand of God I stand; and thence Against the undivulged pretence I fight Of treasonous malice.

ALL So all. ALL Well contented. Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain. Here comes the good Macduff. ROSS Alas, the day! What good could they pretend? Lest our old robes sit easier than our new! ROSS Farewell, father. If there come truth from them— As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine— Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope?

But hush! Sennet sounded. Hie you to horse: adieu, Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you? Exit Attendant To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus. Rather than so, come fate into the list. And champion me to the utterance! Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. Exit Attendant Was it not yesterday we spoke together?

First Murderer It was, so please your highness. Do you find Your patience so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? First Murderer We are men, my liege. MACBETH Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive Particular addition.

Second Murderer I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. Both Murderers True, my lord. Second Murderer We shall, my lord, Perform what you command us. Both Murderers We are resolved, my lord. Exeunt Murderers It is concluded. Servant Ay, madam, but returns again to-night. Servant Madam, I will.

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! So, prithee, go with me. Enter three Murderers First Murderer But who did bid thee join with us? Third Murderer Macbeth. Second Murderer He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers Our offices and what we have to do To the direction just.

First Murderer Then stand with us. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch. Third Murderer Hark! I hear horses. First Murderer His horses go about. Third Murderer Almost a mile: but he does usually, So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Make it their walk.

Second Murderer A light, a light! First Murderer Let it come down. Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. O slave! First Murderer Wast not the way? Second Murderer We have lost Best half of our affair.

A banquet prepared. Lords Thanks to your majesty. Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time We will require her welcome. First Murderer My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.

First Murderer Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a death to nature. Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! Lords What, my good lord? ROSS Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well. Are you a man? This is the very painting of your fear: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.

Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me. Give me some wine; fill full. Lords Our duties, and the pledge.

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with! Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence! Pray you, sit still. You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanched with fear. ROSS What sights, my lord?

At once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. What is the night? I will to-morrow, And betimes I will, to the weird sisters: More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed.

And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. Who cannot want the thought how monstrous It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain To kill their gracious father? How it did grieve Macbeth! Was not that nobly done? But, peace! Lord The son of Duncan, From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth Lives in the English court, and is received Of the most pious Edward with such grace That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward: That, by the help of these—with Him above To ratify the work—we may again Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives, Do faithful homage and receive free honours: All which we pine for now: and this report Hath so exasperate the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.

Some holy angel Fly to the court of England and unfold His message ere he come, that a swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country Under a hand accursed! Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Open, locks, Whoever knocks! ALL A deed without a name. It is considered as the shortest tragedy play among all Shakespeare plays. The Story of Macbeth is very entertaining, it revolves around a Scottish general Macbeth who received a prophecy from a group of witches that soon he will become the King of Scotland. Because of greed and spurred to action from his wife, Macbeth one day murdered King Duncan and became the king of Scotland.

But he became wracked with guilt and paranoia. In order to save himself and his throne he killed more and more people and became a cruel leader of the country. The bloodbath and consequent civil war led Macbeth and his wife into the realms of madness and to their unfortunate death. After Macbeth exits, Macduff arrives in search…. You can get your own copy of this text to keep. Download it to get the same great text as on this site, or purchase a full copy to get the text, plus explanatory notes, illustrations, and more.

Macbeth: Entire Play. Synopsis: Macbeth , set primarily in Scotland, mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder. Contents Characters in the Play. Entire Play Macbeth, set primarily in Scotland, mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder.

Act 1, scene 1 Three witches plan to meet Macbeth. Act 1, scene 2 Duncan, king of Scotland, hears an account of the success in battle of his noblemen Macbeth and Banquo. Act 1, scene 4 Duncan demands and receives assurances that the former thane of Cawdor has been executed. Act 1, scene 6 Duncan and his attendants arrive at Inverness. Lady Macbeth welcomes them. Act 1, scene 7 Macbeth contemplates the reasons why it is a terrible thing to kill Duncan. Act 2, scene 2 Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan.

Act 2, scene 3 A drunken porter, answering the knocking at the gate, plays the role of a devil-porter at the gates of hell…. Act 2, scene 4 An old man and Ross exchange accounts of recent unnatural happenings.