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Macbeth (Folio 1, 1623)
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138The Tragedie of Macbeth.
828 Exeunt Macbeth and Lenox.
829Ring the Alarum Bell: Murther, and Treason,
830Banquo, and Donalbaine: Malcolme awake,
833The great Doomes Image: Malcolme, Banquo,
834As from your Graues rise vp, and walke like Sprights,
835To countenance this horror. Ring the Bell.
836 Bell rings. Enter Lady.
838That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
840Macd. O gentle Lady,
841'Tis not for you to heare what I can speake:
842The repetition in a Womans eare,
843Would murther as it fell.
844 Enter Banquo.
845O Banquo, Banquo, Our Royall Master's murther'd.
846Lady. Woe, alas:
847What, in our House?
848Ban. Too cruell, any where.
851 Enter Macbeth, Lenox, and Rosse.
852Macb. Had I but dy'd an houre before this chance,
854There's nothing serious in Mortalitie:
855All is but Toyes: Renowne and Grace is dead,
856The Wine of Life is drawne, and the meere Lees
857Is left this Vault, to brag of.
858 Enter Malcolme and Donalbaine.
860Macb. You are, and doe not know't:
861The Spring, the Head, the Fountaine of your Blood
863Macd. Your Royall Father's murther'd.
864Mal. Oh, by whom?
866Their Hands and Faces were all badg'd with blood,
867So were their Daggers, which vnwip'd, we found
869No mans Life was to be trusted with them.
870Macb. O, yet I doe repent me of my furie,
871That I did kill them.
874Loyall, and Neutrall, in a moment? No man:
875Th'expedition of my violent Loue
877His Siluer skinne, lac'd with his Golden Blood,
878And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature,
879For Ruines wastfull entrance: there the Murtherers,
880Steep'd in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers
881Vnmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refraine,
882That had a heart to loue; and in that heart,
883Courage, to make's loue knowne?
884Lady. Helpe me hence, hoa.
885Macd. Looke to the Lady.
886Mal. Why doe we hold our tongues,
887That most may clayme this argument for ours?
889Where our Fate hid in an augure hole,
891Our Teares are not yet brew'd.
893Vpon the foot of Motion.
894Banq. Looke to the Lady:
895And when we haue our naked Frailties hid,
899In the great Hand of God I stand, and thence,
901Of Treasonous Mallice.
903All. So all.
905And meet i'th'Hall together.
907Malc. What will you doe?
908Let's not consort with them:
911Ile to England.
912Don. To Ireland, I:
914Where we are, there's Daggers in mens Smiles;
915The neere in blood, the neerer bloody.
918Is to auoid the ayme. Therefore to Horse,
919And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
920But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
922 Exeunt.
923 Scena Quarta.
924 Enter Rosse, with an Old man.
926Within the Volume of which Time, I haue seene
928Hath trifled former knowings.
929Rosse. Ha, good Father,
931Threatens his bloody Stage: byth'Clock 'tis Day,
932And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe:
933Is't Nights predominance, or the Dayes shame,
934That Darknesse does the face of Earth intombe,
936Old man. 'Tis vnnaturall,
938A Faulcon towring in her pride of place,
939Was by a Mowsing Owle hawkt at, and kill'd.
942Beauteous, and swift, the Minions of their Race,
944Contending 'gainst Obedience, as they would
945Make Warre with Mankinde.
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