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A blasted heath

[Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES.]

First Witch

Where hast thou been, sister?

Second Witch

Killing swine.

Third Witch

Sister, where thou?

First Witch

A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,

And mounch’d, and mounch’d, and mounch’d. 5

‘Give me’ quoth I.

‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed ronyon cries.

Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ th’ Tiger;

But in a sieve I’ll thither sail

And, like a rat without a tail, 10

I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.

Second Witch

I’ll give thee a wind,

First Witch

Th’art kind.

Third Witch

And I another.

First Witch

I myself have all the other; 15

And the very ports they blow,

All the quarters that they know

I’ th’ shipman’s card.

I’ll drain him dry as hay:

Sleep shall neither night nor day 20

Hang upon his pent-house lid;

He shall live a man forbid;

Weary sev’nights, nine times nine,

Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.

Though his bark cannot be lost, 25

Yet it shall be tempest-tost.

Look what I have.

Second Witch

Show me, show me.

First Witch

Here I have a pilot’s thumb,

Wreck’d as homeward he did come. 30

[Drum within.]

Third Witch

A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come.

All

The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,

Posters of the sea and land,

Thus do go about, about;

Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, 35

And thrice again, to make up nine.

Peace! The charm’s wound up.

[Enter MACBETH and BANQUO.]

Macbeth

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Banquo

How far is’t call’d to Forres? What are these,

So withered, and so wild in their attire, 40

That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth,

And yet are on’t? Live you, or are you aught

That man may question? You seem to understand me,

By each at once her choppy finger laying

Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, 45

And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

That you are so.

Macbeth

Speak, if you can. What are you?

First Witch

All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Glamis!

Second Witch

All hall, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Cawdor!

Third Witch

All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter! 50

Banquo

Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear

Things that do sound so fair? I’ th’ name of truth,

Are ye fantastical, or that indeed

Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner

You greet with present grace and great prediction 55

Of noble having and of royal hope,

That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not.

If you can look into the seeds of time

And say which grain will grow and which will not,

Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 60

Your favours nor your hate.

First Witch

Hail!

Second Witch

Hail!

Third Witch

Hail!

First Witch

Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. 65

Second Witch

Not so happy, yet much happier.

Third Witch

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.

So, all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!

First Witch

Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!

Macbeth

Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. 70

By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;

But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,

A prosperous gentleman; and to be King

Stands not within the prospect of belief,

No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence 75

You owe this strange intelligence, or why

Upon this blasted heath you stop our way

With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.

[WITCHES vanish.]

Banquo

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,

And these are of them. Whither are they vanish’d? 80

Macbeth

Into the air; and what seem’d corporal melted

As breath into the wind. Would they had stay’d!

Banquo

Were such things here as we do speak about?

Or have we eaten on the insane root

That takes the reason prisoner? 85

Macbeth

Your children shall be kings.

Banquo

You shall be King.

Macbeth

And Thane of Cawdor too; went it not so?

Banquo

To th’ self-same tune and words. Who’s here?

[Enter ROSS and ANGUS.]

Ross

The King hath happily receiv’d, Macbeth,

The news of thy success; and when he reads 90

Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight,

His wonders and his praises do contend

Which should be thine or his. Silenc’d with that,

In viewing o’er the rest o’ th’ self-same day,

He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, 95

Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,

Strange images of death. As thick as tale

Came post with post, and every one did bear

Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defence,

And pour’d them down before him.

Angus

We are sent 100

To give thee, from our royal master, thanks;

Only to herald thee into his sight,

Not pay thee.

Ross

And, for an earnest of a greater honour,

He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor; 105

In which addition, hail, most worthy Thane!

For it is thine.

Banquo

What, can the devil speak true?

Macbeth

The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me

In borrowed robes?

Angus

Who was the Thane lives yet;

But under heavy judgment bears that life 110

Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’d

With those of Norway, or did line the rebel

With hidden help and vantage, or that with both

He labour’d in his country’s wreck, I know not;

But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d, 115

Have overthrown him.

Macbeth

[aside] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor!

The greatest is behind. – Thanks for your pains.

[Aside to BANQUO] Do you not hope your children shall be kings,

When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me

Promis’d no less to them?

Banquo

[aside to MACBETH] That, trusted home, 120

Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,

Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ‘tis strange;

And oftentimes to win us to our harm,

The Instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s 125

In deepest consequence. –

Cousins, a word, I pray you.

Macbeth

[aside] Two truths are told,

As happy prologues to the swelling act

Of the imperial theme. – I thank you, gentlemen.

[Aside] This supernatural soliciting 130

Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,

Commencing in a truth I am Thane of Cawdor.

If good, why do I yield to that suggestion

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair 135

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs

Against the use of nature? Present fears

Are less than horrible imaginings.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,

Shakes so my single state of man 140

That function is smothered in surmise,

And nothing is but what is not.

Banquo

Look how our partner’s rapt.

Macbeth

[aside] If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me,

Without my stir.

Banquo

New honours come upon him, 145

Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould

But with the aid of use.

Macbeth [aside]

Come what come may,

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Banquo

Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.

Macbeth

Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought 150

With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains

Are register’d where every day I turn

The leaf to read them. Let us toward the King.

[Aside to BANQUO] Think upon what hath chanc’d; and, at more time,

The interim having weigh’d it, let us speak 155

Our free hearts each to other.

Banquo

[aside to MACBETH] Very gladly.

Macbeth

[aside to BANQUO] Till then, enough. – Come, friends.

[Exeunt.]