Reading Help THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Swelter'd venom sleeping got, `
` Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` SECOND WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, `
` In the cauldron boil and bake; `
` Eye of newt and toe of frog, `
` Wool of bat and tongue of dog, `
` Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, `
` Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, `
` For a charm of powerful trouble, `
` Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` THIRD WITCH. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, `
` Witch's mummy, maw and gulf `
` Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, `
` Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, `
` Liver of blaspheming Jew, `
` Gall of goat and slips of yew `
` Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, `
` Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, `
` Finger of birth-strangled babe `
` Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, `
` Make the gruel thick and slab. `
` Add thereto a tiger's chawdron, `
` For the ingredients of our cawdron. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` SECOND WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood, `
` Then the charm is firm and good. `
` `
` Enter Hecate to the other three Witches. `
` `
` HECATE. O, well done! I commend your pains, `
` And everyone shall share i' the gains. `
` And now about the cauldron sing, `
` Like elves and fairies in a ring, `
` Enchanting all that you put in. `
` Music and a song, "Black spirits." `
` Hecate retires. `
` SECOND WITCH. By the pricking of my thumbs, `
` Something wicked this way comes. `
` Open, locks, `
` Whoever knocks! `
` `
` Enter Macbeth. `
` `
` MACBETH. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? `
` What is't you do? `
` ALL. A deed without a name. `
` MACBETH. I conjure you, by that which you profess `
` (Howeer you come to know it) answer me: `
` Though you untie the winds and let them fight `
` Against the churches, though the yesty waves `
` Confound and swallow navigation up, `
` Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down, `
` Though castles topple on their warders' heads, `
` Though palaces and pyramids do slope `
` Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure `
` Of nature's germaines tumble all together `
` Even till destruction sicken, answer me `
` To what I ask you. `
` FIRST WITCH. Speak. `
` SECOND WITCH. Demand. `
` THIRD WITCH. We'll answer. `
` FIRST WITCH. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, `
` Or from our masters'? `
` MACBETH. Call 'em, let me see 'em. `
` FIRST WITCH. Pour in sow's blood that hath eaten `
` Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten `
` From the murtherer's gibbet throw `
` Into the flame. `
` ALL. Come, high or low; `
` Thyself and office deftly show! `
` `
` Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head. `
` `
` MACBETH. Tell me, thou unknown power- `
` FIRST WITCH. He knows thy thought: `
` Hear his speech, but say thou nought. `
` FIRST APPARITION. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff, `
` Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. `
` Descends. `
` MACBETH. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; `
` Thou hast harp'd my fear aright. But one word more- `
` FIRST WITCH. He will not be commanded. Here's another, `
` More potent than the first. `
` `
` Thunder. Second Apparition: a bloody Child. `
` `
` SECOND APPARITION. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! `
` MACBETH. Had I three ears, I'd hear thee. `
` SECOND APPARITION. Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to `
` scorn `
` The power of man, for none of woman born `
` Shall harm Macbeth. Descends. `
` MACBETH. Then live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? `
` But yet I'll make assurance double sure, `
` And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live, `
` That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, `
` And sleep in spite of thunder. `
` `
` Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, `
` with a tree in his hand. `
` `
` What is this, `
` That rises like the issue of a king, `
` And wears upon his baby brow the round `
` And top of sovereignty? `
` ALL. Listen, but speak not to't. `
` THIRD APPARITION. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care `
` Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. `
` Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until `
` Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill `
` Shall come against him. Descends. `
` MACBETH. That will never be. `
` Who can impress the forest, bid the tree `
` Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good! `
` Rebellion's head, rise never till the Wood `
` Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth `
` Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath `
` To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart `
` Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art `
` Can tell so much, shall Banquo's issue ever `
` Reign in this kingdom? `
` ALL. Seek to know no more. `
` MACBETH. I will be satisfied! Deny me this, `
` And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. `
` Why sinks that cauldron, and what noise is this? `
` Hautboys. `
` FIRST WITCH. Show! `
` SECOND WITCH. Show! `
` THIRD. WITCH. Show! `
` ALL. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; `
` Come like shadows, so depart! `
` `
` A show of eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; `
` Banquo's Ghost following. `
` `
` MACBETH. Thou are too like the spirit of Banquo Down! `
` Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair, `
` Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. `
` A third is like the former. Filthy hags! `
` Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes! `
` What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? `
` Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more! `
` And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass `
` Which shows me many more; and some I see `
` That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry. `
` Horrible sight! Now I see 'tis true; `
` For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me, `
` And points at them for his. What, is this so? `
` FIRST WITCH. Ay, sir, all this is so. But why `
` Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? `
` Come,sisters, cheer we up his sprites, `
` And show the best of our delights. `
` I'll charm the air to give a sound, `
` While you perform your antic round, `
` That this great King may kindly say `
` Our duties did his welcome pay. `
` Music. The Witches dance and `
` then vanish with Hecate. `
` MACBETH. are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour `
` Stand ay accursed in the calendar! `
` Come in, without there! `
` `
` Enter Lennox. `
` `
` LENNOX. What's your Grace's will? `
` MACBETH. Saw you the weird sisters? `
` LENNOX. No, my lord. `
` MACBETH. Came they not by you? `
` LENNOX. No indeed, my lord. `
` MACBETH. Infected be the 'air whereon they ride, `
` And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear `
` The galloping of horse. Who wast came by? `
` LENNOX. 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word `
` Macduff is fled to England. `
` MACBETH. Fled to England? `
` LENNOX. Ay, my good lord. `
` MACBETH. [Aside.] Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits. `
` The flighty purpose never is o'ertook `
` Unless the deed go with it. From this moment `
` The very firstlings of my heart shall be `
` The firstlings of my hand. And even now, `
` To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: `
` The castle of Macduff I will surprise, `
` Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o' the sword `
` His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls `
` That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool; `
` This deed I'll do before this purpose cool. `
` But no more sights! -Where are these gentlemen? `
` Come, bring me where they are. Exeunt. `
` `
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` `
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` SCENE II. `
` Fife. Macduff's castle. `
` `
`
` Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` SECOND WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, `
` In the cauldron boil and bake; `
` Eye of newt and toe of frog, `
` Wool of bat and tongue of dog, `
` Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, `
` Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, `
` For a charm of powerful trouble, `
` Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` THIRD WITCH. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, `
` Witch's mummy, maw and gulf `
` Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, `
` Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, `
` Liver of blaspheming Jew, `
` Gall of goat and slips of yew `
` Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, `
` Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, `
` Finger of birth-strangled babe `
` Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, `
` Make the gruel thick and slab. `
` Add thereto a tiger's chawdron, `
` For the ingredients of our cawdron. `
` ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble; `
` Fire burn and cauldron bubble. `
` SECOND WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood, `
` Then the charm is firm and good. `
` `
` Enter Hecate to the other three Witches. `
` `
` HECATE. O, well done! I commend your pains, `
` And everyone shall share i' the gains. `
` And now about the cauldron sing, `
` Like elves and fairies in a ring, `
` Enchanting all that you put in. `
` Music and a song, "Black spirits." `
` Hecate retires. `
` SECOND WITCH. By the pricking of my thumbs, `
` Something wicked this way comes. `
` Open, locks, `
` Whoever knocks! `
` `
` Enter Macbeth. `
` `
` MACBETH. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? `
` What is't you do? `
` ALL. A deed without a name. `
` MACBETH. I conjure you, by that which you profess `
` (Howeer you come to know it) answer me: `
` Though you untie the winds and let them fight `
` Against the churches, though the yesty waves `
` Confound and swallow navigation up, `
` Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down, `
` Though castles topple on their warders' heads, `
` Though palaces and pyramids do slope `
` Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure `
` Of nature's germaines tumble all together `
` Even till destruction sicken, answer me `
` To what I ask you. `
` FIRST WITCH. Speak. `
` SECOND WITCH. Demand. `
` THIRD WITCH. We'll answer. `
` FIRST WITCH. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, `
` Or from our masters'? `
` MACBETH. Call 'em, let me see 'em. `
` FIRST WITCH. Pour in sow's blood that hath eaten `
` Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten `
` From the murtherer's gibbet throw `
` Into the flame. `
` ALL. Come, high or low; `
` Thyself and office deftly show! `
` `
` Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head. `
` `
` MACBETH. Tell me, thou unknown power- `
` FIRST WITCH. He knows thy thought: `
` Hear his speech, but say thou nought. `
` FIRST APPARITION. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff, `
` Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. `
` Descends. `
` MACBETH. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; `
` Thou hast harp'd my fear aright. But one word more- `
` FIRST WITCH. He will not be commanded. Here's another, `
` More potent than the first. `
` `
` Thunder. Second Apparition: a bloody Child. `
` `
` SECOND APPARITION. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! `
` MACBETH. Had I three ears, I'd hear thee. `
` SECOND APPARITION. Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to `
` scorn `
` The power of man, for none of woman born `
` Shall harm Macbeth. Descends. `
` MACBETH. Then live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? `
` But yet I'll make assurance double sure, `
` And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live, `
` That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, `
` And sleep in spite of thunder. `
` `
` Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, `
` with a tree in his hand. `
` `
` What is this, `
` That rises like the issue of a king, `
` And wears upon his baby brow the round `
` And top of sovereignty? `
` ALL. Listen, but speak not to't. `
` THIRD APPARITION. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care `
` Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. `
` Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until `
` Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill `
` Shall come against him. Descends. `
` MACBETH. That will never be. `
` Who can impress the forest, bid the tree `
` Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good! `
` Rebellion's head, rise never till the Wood `
` Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth `
` Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath `
` To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart `
` Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art `
` Can tell so much, shall Banquo's issue ever `
` Reign in this kingdom? `
` ALL. Seek to know no more. `
` MACBETH. I will be satisfied! Deny me this, `
` And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. `
` Why sinks that cauldron, and what noise is this? `
` Hautboys. `
` FIRST WITCH. Show! `
` SECOND WITCH. Show! `
` THIRD. WITCH. Show! `
` ALL. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; `
` Come like shadows, so depart! `
` `
` A show of eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; `
` Banquo's Ghost following. `
` `
` MACBETH. Thou are too like the spirit of Banquo Down! `
` Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair, `
` Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. `
` A third is like the former. Filthy hags! `
` Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes! `
` What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? `
` Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more! `
` And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass `
` Which shows me many more; and some I see `
` That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry. `
` Horrible sight! Now I see 'tis true; `
` For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me, `
` And points at them for his. What, is this so? `
` FIRST WITCH. Ay, sir, all this is so. But why `
` Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? `
` Come,sisters, cheer we up his sprites, `
` And show the best of our delights. `
` I'll charm the air to give a sound, `
` While you perform your antic round, `
` That this great King may kindly say `
` Our duties did his welcome pay. `
` Music. The Witches dance and `
` then vanish with Hecate. `
` MACBETH. are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour `
` Stand ay accursed in the calendar! `
` Come in, without there! `
` `
` Enter Lennox. `
` `
` LENNOX. What's your Grace's will? `
` MACBETH. Saw you the weird sisters? `
` LENNOX. No, my lord. `
` MACBETH. Came they not by you? `
` LENNOX. No indeed, my lord. `
` MACBETH. Infected be the 'air whereon they ride, `
` And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear `
` The galloping of horse. Who wast came by? `
` LENNOX. 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word `
` Macduff is fled to England. `
` MACBETH. Fled to England? `
` LENNOX. Ay, my good lord. `
` MACBETH. [Aside.] Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits. `
` The flighty purpose never is o'ertook `
` Unless the deed go with it. From this moment `
` The very firstlings of my heart shall be `
` The firstlings of my hand. And even now, `
` To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: `
` The castle of Macduff I will surprise, `
` Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o' the sword `
` His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls `
` That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool; `
` This deed I'll do before this purpose cool. `
` But no more sights! -Where are these gentlemen? `
` Come, bring me where they are. Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE II. `
` Fife. Macduff's castle. `
` `
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