Chapter XXIII: Act I: SCENE I. A desert place.3668

_Thunder and lightning. Enter three_ Witches.

_First Witch._ When shall we three meet again[3669]
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?[3670]

_Sec. Witch._ When the hurlyburly's done,[3671]
When the battle's lost and won.

_Third Witch._ That will be ere the set of sun.[3672] 5

_First Witch._ Where the place?

_Sec. Witch._ Upon the heath.

_Third Witch._ There to meet with Macbeth.[3673]

_First Witch._ I come, Graymalkin.[3674]

_All._ Paddock calls:--anon![3675][3676][3677]
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.[3675][3676][3678] 10
Hover through the fog and filthy air.[3675] [_Exeunt._[3679]

SCENE II. _A camp near Forres._[3680]

_Alarum within. Enter_ DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX,
_with_ Attendants, _meeting a bleeding_ Sergeant.[3681]

_Dun._ What bloody man is that? He can report,[3682]
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.

_Mal._ This is the sergeant[3683]
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought[3683][3684]
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend![3684][3685] 5
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil[3686]
As thou didst leave it.

_Ser._ Doubtful it stood;[3687]
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together[3688]
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--[3689]
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that 10
The multiplying villanies of nature[3690]
Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;[3691]
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,[3692]
Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:[3693] 15
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,[3694]
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage[3695][3696]
Till he faced the slave;[3695][3697] 20
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,[3698]
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,[3699]
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.

_Dun._ O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

_Ser._ As whence the sun 'gins his reflection[3700] 25
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,[3701]
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:[3702]
No sooner justice had, with valour arm'd,
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,[3703] 30
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men,[3704]
Began a fresh assault.

_Dun._ Dismay'd not this[3705]
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?[3705][3706]

_Ser._ Yes;[3707]
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.[3707] 35
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks;[3708]
So they[3709]
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:[3710]
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,[3711] 40
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell--[3712][3713]
But I am faint; my gashes cry for help.[3712]

_Dun._ So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;[3714]
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.[3715] 45

[_Exit Sergeant, attended._

Who comes here?[3716]

_Enter_ ROSS.

_Mal._ The worthy thane of Ross.

_Len._ What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he
look[3717][3718]
That seems to speak things strange.[3718][3719]

_Ross._ God save the king!

_Dun._ Whence camest thou, worthy thane?

_Ross._ From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky[3720] 50
And fan our people cold.[3721]
Norway himself, with terrible numbers,[3721][3722]
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;[3723]
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, 55
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm,[3724]
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,[3725]
The victory fell on us.

_Dun._ Great happiness!

_Ross._ That now[3726] 60
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition;[3726][3727]
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed, at Saint Colme's inch,[3728]
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

_Dun._ No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive 65
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,[3729]
And with his former title greet Macbeth.[3730]

_Ross._ I'll see it done.

_Dun._ What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

[_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _A heath._

_Thunder. Enter the three_ Witches.

_First Witch._ Where hast thou been, sister?[3731]

_Sec. Witch._ Killing swine.

_Third Witch._ Sister, where thou?[3732]

_First Witch._ A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd. 'Give me,' quoth I:[3733] 5
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.[3734]
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
And, like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.[3735] 10

_Sec. Witch._ I'll give thee a wind.

_First Witch._ Thou'rt kind.[3736]

_Third Witch._ And I another.

_First Witch._ I myself have all the other;
And the very ports they blow,[3737] 15
All the quarters that they know[3738]
I' the shipman's card.[3739]
I will drain him dry as hay:[3740]
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid; 20
He shall live a man forbid:
Weary se'nnights nine times nine[3741]
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost. 25
Look what I have.

_Sec. Witch._ Show me, show me.

_First Witch._ Here I have a pilot's thumb,
Wreck'd as homeward he did come. [_Drum within._

_Third Witch._ A drum, a drum! 30
Macbeth doth come.[3742]

_All._ The weird sisters, hand in hand,[3743]
Posters of the sea and land,[3744]
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,[3745] 35
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up.

_Enter_ MACBETH _and_ BANQUO.[3746]

_Macb._ So foul and fair a day I have not seen.[3747]

_Ban._ How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these[3748]
So wither'd, and so wild in their attire, 40
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,[3749]
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.

_Macb._ Speak, if you can: what are you?

_First Witch._ All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!

_Sec. Witch._ All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!

_Third Witch._ All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! 50

_Ban._ Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,[3750]
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:[3751]
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,[3752]
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 60
Your favours nor your hate.

_First Witch._ Hail!

_Sec. Witch._ Hail!

_Third Witch._ Hail!

_First Witch._ Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. 65

_Sec. Witch._ Not so happy, yet much happier.

_Third Witch._ Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo![3753]

_First Witch._ Banquo and Macbeth, all hail![3754]

_Macb._ Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: 70
By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;[3755]
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.[3756]

[_Witches vanish._

_Ban._ The earth hath bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them: whither are they vanish'd? 80

_Macb._ Into the air, and what seem'd corporal melted[3757]
As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd![3757]

_Ban._ Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root[3758]
That takes the reason prisoner? 85

_Macb._ Your children shall be kings.

_Ban._ You shall be king.

_Macb._ And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?

_Ban._ To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?[3759]

_Enter_ ROSS _and_ ANGUS.

_Ross._ The king hath happily received, Macbeth,[3760]
The news of thy success: and when he reads 90
Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,[3761]
His wonders and his praises do contend[3762]
Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,[3762][3763]
In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, 95
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,[3764]
Strange images of death. As thick as hail[3765][3766]
Came post with post, and every one did bear[3766][3767]
Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
And pour'd them down before him.

_Aug._ We are sent[3768] 100
To give thee, from our royal master, thanks;[3769][3770]
Only to herald thee into his sight,[3769]
Not pay thee.

_Ross._ And for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:[3771] 105
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
For it is thine.

_Ban._ What, can the devil speak true?

_Macb._ The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me[3772]
In borrow'd robes?[3772][3773]

_Ang._ Who was the thane lives yet,
But under heavy judgement bears that life 110
Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined[3774]
With those of Norway, or did line the rebel[3774][3775]
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both[3774][3776]
He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;[3774]
But treasons capital, confess'd and proved, 115
Have overthrown him.

_Macb._ [_Aside_] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor:[3777]
The greatest is behind.--Thanks for your pains.--[3778]
Do you not hope your children shall be kings,[3779]
When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
Promised no less to them?

_Ban._ That, trusted home,[3780] 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[3781] 125
In deepest consequence.[3782]
Cousins, a word, I pray you.[3782]

_Macb._ [_Aside_] Two truths are told,[3783]
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.
[_Aside_] This supernatural soliciting[3784] 130
Cannot be ill; cannot be good: if ill,[3785][3786]
Why hath it given me earnest of success,[3786]
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:[3787]
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair[3788] 135
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears[3789]
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,[3790]
Shakes so my single state of man that function[3791] 140
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is[3791]
But what is not.[3791][3792]

_Ban._ Look, how our partner's rapt.

_Macb._ [_Aside_] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown
me,[3793]
Without my stir.

_Ban._ New honours come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould 145
But with the aid of use.[3794]

_Macb._ [_Aside_] Come what come may,[3795]
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

_Ban._ Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.

_Macb._ Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought[3796]
With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains[3796][3797] 150
Are register'd where every day I turn[3796]
The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.[3796]
Think upon what hath chanced, and at more time,[3796][3798]
The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak[3799]
Our free hearts each to other.

_Ban._ Very gladly. 155

_Macb._ Till then, enough. Come, friends.[3800] [_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _Forres. The palace._[3801]

_Flourish. Enter_ DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, _and_
Attendants.[3802]

_Dun._ Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not[3803]
Those in commission yet return'd?

_Mal._ My liege,[3804]
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke[3804]
With one that saw him die, who did report[3804]
That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,[3804] 5
Implored your highness' pardon and set forth[3804]
A deep repentance: nothing in his life[3804]
Became him like the leaving it; he died[3804]
As one that had been studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he owed[3805] 10
As 'twere a careless trifle.

_Dun._ There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.

_Enter_ MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, _and_ ANGUS.

O worthiest cousin![3806]
The sin of my ingratitude even now 15
Was heavy on me: thou art so far before[3807]
That swiftest wing of recompense is slow[3808]
To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,[3809]
That the proportion both of thanks and payment
Might have been mine! only I have left to say,[3810] 20
More is thy due than more than all can pay.[3811]

_Macb._ The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part[3812]
Is to receive our duties: and our duties[3812]
Are to your throne and state, children and servants;[3812] 25
Which do but what they should, by doing every thing[3812][3813]
Safe toward your love and honour.[3812][3813][3814]

_Dun._ Welcome hither:
I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
That hast no less deserved, nor must be known[3815] 30
No less to have done so: let me infold thee
And hold thee to my heart.

_Ban._ There if I grow,
The harvest is your own.

_Dun._ My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,[3816] 35
And you whose places are the nearest, know,
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland: which honour must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,[3817] 40
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,[3818]
And bind us further to you.[3819]

_Macb._ The rest is labour, which is not used for you:[3819]
I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful[3820] 45
The hearing of my wife with your approach;
So humbly take my leave.

_Dun._ My worthy Cawdor!

_Macb._ [_Aside_] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step,[3821]
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; 50
Let not light see my black and deep desires:[3822]
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [_Exit._

_Dun._ True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,[3823]
And in his commendations I am fed; 55
It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,[3824]
Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
It is a peerless kinsman. [_Flourish. Exeunt._[3825]

SCENE V. _Inverness. Macbeth's castle._[3826]

_Enter_ LADY MACBETH, _reading a letter_.[3827]

_Lady M._ 'They met me in the day of success; and I[3828]
have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in[3829]
them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to
question them further, they made themselves air, into which
they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it,[3830] 5
came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane[3831]
of Cawdor;" by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted[3832]
me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with
"Hail, king that shalt be!" This have I thought good to[3833]
deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou 10
mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant[3834]
of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart,
and farewell.'
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be[3835]
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;[3836] 15
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness[3837]
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, 20
And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,[3838][3839]
That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;[3838][3839]
And that which rather thou dost fear to do[3839]
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,[3839][3840]
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, 25
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,[3841]
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem[3842]
To have thee crown'd withal.[3843]

_Enter a_ Messenger.[3844]

What is your tidings?

_Mess._ The king comes here to-night.

_Lady M._ Thou'rt mad to say it:[3845] 30
Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,
Would have inform'd for preparation.

_Mess._ So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:[3845]
One of my fellows had the speed of him,
Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more 35
Than would make up his message.

_Lady M._ Give him tending;
He brings great news. [_Exit Messenger._
The raven himself is hoarse[3846]
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits[3847]
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,[3848] 40
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,[3849]
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between[3850] 45
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,[3851]
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,[3852]
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 50
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,[3853]
To cry 'Hold, hold!'

_Enter_ MACBETH.

Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor![3854]
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
Thy letters have transported me beyond 55
This ignorant present, and I feel now[3855]
The future in the instant.

_Macb._ My dearest love,[3856]
Duncan comes here to-night.

_Lady M._ And when goes hence?

_Macb._ To-morrow, as he purposes.

_Lady M._ O, never
Shall sun that morrow see![3857] 60
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men[3858]
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,[3859]
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming 65
Must be provided for: and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

_Macb._ We will speak further.

_Lady Macb._ Only look up clear; 70
To alter favour ever is to fear:[3860]
Leave all the rest to me. [_Exeunt._

SCENE VI. _Before Macbeth's castle._[3861]

_Hautboys and torches. Enter_ DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN,
BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants.[3862]

_Dun._ This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air[3863][3864]
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself[3864]
Unto our gentle senses.[3865]

_Ban._ This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve[3866]
By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath[3867] 5
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,[3868][3869]
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird[3868][3870]
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:[3868][3871]
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed[3868][3871][3872]
The air is delicate.[3868]

_Enter_ LADY MACBETH.

_Dun._ See, see, our honour'd hostess![3868][3873] 10
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,[3874]
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you[3875]
How you shall bid God'ild us for your pains,[3875][3876]
And thank us for your trouble.

_Lady M._ All our service
In every point twice done, and then done double, 15
Were poor and single business to contend
Against those honours deep and broad wherewith[3877]
Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,[3877]
And the late dignities heap'd up to them,[3877]
We rest your hermits.[3877]

_Dun._ Where's the thane of Cawdor?[3877][3878] 20
We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
To be his purveyor: but he rides well,
And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him[3879]
To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,[3880]
We are your guest to-night.

_Lady M._ Your servants ever 25
Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt,[3881]
To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
Still to return your own.

_Dun._ Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,[3882]
And shall continue our graces towards him. 30
By your leave, hostess. [_Exeunt._[3883]

SCENE VII. _Macbeth's castle._[3884]

_Hautboys and torches. Enter a_ Sewer, _and divers_ Servants
_with dishes and service and pass over the stage. Then enter_
MACBETH.[3885]

_Macb._ If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well[3886]
It were done quickly: if the assassination[3886][3887]
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow[3888]
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,[3889] 5
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,[3890]
We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgement here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which being taught return[3891]
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice[3892][3893] 10
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice[3892][3894]
To our own lips. He's here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door, 15
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been[3895]
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against[3896]
The deep damnation of his taking-off; 20
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin horsed[3897]
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,[3898]
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur 25
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself[3899]
And falls on the other.[3900]

_Enter_ LADY MACBETH.[3901]

How now! what news?

_Lady M._ He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?[3902]

_Macb._ Hath he ask'd for me?

_Lady M._ Know you not he has?[3903] 30

_Macb._ We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,[3904]
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,[3905]
Not cast aside so soon.

_Lady M._ Was the hope drunk 35
Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?[3906]
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time[3907]
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard[3908]
To be the same in thine own act and valour 40
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that[3909]
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,[3909]
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?[3910]

_Macb._ Prithee, peace: 45
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.[3911]

_Lady M._ What beast was't then
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would 50
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place[3912]
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:[3913]
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now[3914]
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: 55
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you[3915][3916]
Have done to this.[3915][3917]

_Macb._ If we should fail?

_Lady M._ We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, 60
And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--
Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey[3918]
Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince[3919]
That memory, the warder of the brain, 65
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbec only: when in swinish sleep
Their drenched natures lie as in a death,[3920]
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon 70
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Of our great quell?

_Macb._ Bring forth men-children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose[3921]
Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two 75
Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers,
That they have done't?

_Lady M._ Who dares receive it other,
As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
Upon his death?

_Macb._ I am settled, and bend up[3922]
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. 80
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:[3923]
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.[3923]

[_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[3668] ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna Prima. Ff.

A desert place.] An open Heath. Rowe. An open place. Theobald. om Ff.

[3669] _again_] Hanmer. _againe?_ F1 F2. _again?_ F3 F4.

[3670] _or_] _and_ Hanmer.

[3671] _done_] _over_ A. Hunter.

[3672] _the_] om. Pope.

[3673] _to meet with Macbeth_] _I go to meet Macbeth_ Pope. _to meet with great Macbeth_ Capell. _we go to meet Macbeth_ A. Hunter (Jennens conj.). _to meet with_--1. Witch. _Whom?_ 2. Witch. _Macbeth._ Rann (Steevens conj.). _to meet and greet Macbeth_ Jackson conj. _to meet with thane Macbeth_ Nicholson conj.

[3674] _I come_] _I come, I come_ Pope, putting _Grimalkin_ in a separate line.

[Spirits call in succession. Nicholson conj.

[3675] All. _Paddock ... air._] 2. Witch. _Padocke calls--anon!_ All. _Fair ... air._ Pope. 2. Witch. _Paddock calls._ 3. Witch. _Anon._ All. _Fair ... air._ Grant White (Hunter conj.).

[3676] _Paddock ... fair._] Two lines in Pope. One in Ff.

[3677] _calls:--anon!_] _calls--anon--_ Rowe. _calls anon_: Ff.

[3678] _foul is fair_] _foul sfair_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3679] _the_] om. Pope.

[Exeunt.] Ff. They rise from the Stage, and fly away. Rowe. Witches vanish. Malone.

[3680] A camp ...] Capell. A Palace. Rowe. The Palace at Forres. Theobald.

[3681] Alarum within] om. Rowe.

Duncan,] Capell. King, Ff.

Sergeant.] Edd. Captaine. Ff. Soldier. Capell.

[3682] Dun.] Capell. King. Ff. (and throughout).

[3683] _sergeant Who ... good_] _serjeant, who Like a right good_ Hanmer.

[3684] _soldier fought 'Gainst_] _soldier Fought against_ S. Walker conj., or supposes some words to be lost.

[3685] _Hail_] _Haile_ F1. _Haile: haile_ F2. _Hail, hail_ F3 F4. _Hail, my_ S. Walker conj.

[3686] _the knowledge_] _thy knowledge_ Keightley (Collier MS. and S. Walker conj.).

[3687] _Doubtful_] _Doubtful long_ Pope. _Doubtfully_ Steevens (1793).

_it_] _it had_ Anon. conj.

_stood_;] Here Keightley marks a line omitted.

[3688] _two_] _to_ Warburton.

_spent_] _expert_ Jennens.

[3689] _Macdonwald_] F1. _Macdonnell_ F2 F3 F4.

[3690] _villanies_] F1 F4. _Villaines_ F2 F3.

[3691] _Of_] _With_ Hanmer.

_gallowglasses_] _Gallow glasses_ F2 F3 F4. _Gallowgrosses_ F1.

_is_] _was_ Pope.

[3692] _damned quarrel_] Hanmer (Warburton and Johnson). _damned quarry_ Ff. _damped quarry_ Jackson conj.

[3693] _a rebel's_] _the rebel's_ Hanmer.

_all's too weak_] _all too weak_ Pope. _all-to-weak_ Hunter conj.

[3694] _Disdaining fortune_] _Like valour's minion_ Mitford conj.

[3695] _Like ... slave_:] As in Ff. Steevens (1793) ends the first line _minion._ Keightley marks an omission after _minion_ and after _slave._

[3696] _Like valour's minion_] om. Mitford conj.

_carved_] Rowe (ed. 2). _carv'd_ Ff.

[3697] _he_] _he had_ Pope.

[3698] _Which ne'er_] Knight. _Which nev'r_ F1 F2 F3. _Which never_ F4. _Who ne'er_ Pope. _And ne'er_ Capell. _When he ne'er_ Nicholson conj.

_Which ... hands_] _And ne'er slack'd hand_ Bullock conj.

_bade_] Steevens (1778). _bad_ F1 F2 F3. _bid_ F4.

[3699] _nave_] _nape_ Hanmer (Warburton).

_chaps_] _chops_ Ff.

[3700] _'gins_] F1. _gins_ F2 F3 F4. _gives_ Pope.

[3701] _Shipwrecking ... break_] _Burst forth shipwrecking storms and direful thunders_ Anon. conj.

_thunders break_,] Pope. _thunders_: F1. _thunders breaking_ F2 F3 F4. _thunders burst_, or _thunders threat_, S. Walker conj.

[3702] _Discomfort swells_] _Discomfort swell'd_ Pope. _Discomforts well'd_ Johnson (Thirlby conj.). _Discomfit well'd_ Warburton. _Discomfort wells_ Capell.

[3703] _kerns_] _kernes_ Ff. _kermes_ Johnson.

[3704] _furbish'd_] _furbusht_ Ff.

[3705] _Dismayed ... Banquo?_] As in Pope. Prose in Ff.

[3706] _captains_] _captains twain_ S. Walker conj.

_Macbeth_] _brave Macbeth_ Hanmer.

[3707] _Yes; ... lion._] As in Pope. Two lines, ending _eagles ... lyon_, in Ff.

[3708] _overcharged with_] _overcharg'd; with_ Theobald. _charg'd with_ Seymour conj. (reading _As ... they_ as one line).

[3709] _So they_] As a separate line in Steevens. In Ff _So they_ begins line 39, in Globe ed. ends line 37. Before or after these words Grant White conjectures the rest of a line to be lost. Keightley marks the omission of part of a line before _So they_.

[3710] _Doubly_] om. Pope, reading _So ... foe_ as one line.

[3711] _reeking_] F1 F4. _recking_ F2 F3.

[3712] _I ... help._] As in Rowe. Two lines, the first ending _faint_, in Ff.

[3713] _tell--_] Rowe. _tell_: Ff.

[3714] _So_] _As_ A. Hunter.

[3715] [Exit ...] Exeunt some with the Soldier. Capell. Exit Soldier, attended. Malone. om. Ff.

[3716] _Who_] _But who_ Pope. _Who is't_ Steevens conj.

_here?_] _here now?_ Keightley.

Enter Ross.] Steevens (after line 45). Enter Rosse and Angus. Ff (after line 45). Transferred by Dyce to follow _strange_, line 48.

[3717] _a haste_] F1. _hast_ F2 F3 F4. _haste_ Rowe.

[3718] _So ... strange_] As in Hanmer. One line in Ff. Given to Malcolm, Upton conj.

[3719] _seems_] _teems_ Johnson conj. _comes_ Collier (Collier MS.). _seeks_ or _deems_ Anon. conj.

[3720] _flout the_] _float i' the_ Becket conj. _Did flout the_ Keightley, reading _From ... cold_ as two lines, the first ending _banners_.

[3721] _And ... himself_,] One line, S. Walker conj.

[3722] _Norway himself, with_] _Norway, himself with_ Theobald.

_terrible numbers_,] _numbers terrible_, Pope. _terrible numbers, there_ Keightley.

[3723] _began_] _'gan_ Pope.

[3724] _point rebellious, arm_] Theobald. _point, rebellious arme_ Ff.

[3725] _and_] om. Pope.

[3726] _That ... composition_] As in Steevens (1778). Two lines, the first ending _king_, in Ff.

_That now ... the Norway's_] _Now ... Norway's_ Pope, reading _Now ... composition_ as one line.

[3727] _Sweno_] om. Steevens conj., reading _That ... composition_ as one line.

_Norways'_] Steevens (1778). _Norwayes_ Ff. _Norway's_ Rowe.

[3728] _Colme's inch_] _Colmes ynch_ F1. _Colmes-hill_ F2 F3 F4. _Colmes-kill-isle_ Pope. _Colmkil-isle_ Hanmer. _Colme's hill_ Capell. _Colmes' inch_ Steevens.

[3729] _bosom interest_] _bosom trust_ Capell conj. _bosom's trust_ Anon. conj. _bisson trust_ Anon. conj. _trusting boson_ Anon. conj.

_go_] om. Capell conj.

_present_] om. Pope.

[3730] _greet_] F1. _great_ F2 F3 F4. A heath] Capell. The heath. Rowe.

[3731] _thou_] om. Steevens conj.

[3732] _Sister_] om. Steevens conj.

[3733] _Give ... I_:] As in Pope. A separate line in Ff.

[3734] _Aroint thee_] _Aroynt thee_ F1 F2. _Anoynt thee_ F3 F4. _I've rauntree_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIV. p. 731). _A rauntree_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LV. p. 535). _A rown-tree_ A. Hunter. _Aroint the_ Becket conj.

[3735] _and I'll do_] _and I'll not fail_ Jackson conj.

[3736] _Thou'rt_] Capell. _Th'art_ Ff. _Thou art_ Pope.

[3737] _very_] _various_ Johnson conj.

_ports_] _points_ Pope.

[3738] _know_] _know_, F1. _know._ F2 F3 F4.

[3739] _card._] _card to show._ Collier (Collier MS.).

[3740] _I will_] Pope. _Ile_ F1. _I'le_ F2 F3. _I'll_ F4.

[3741] _se'nnights_] _sev'nights_ Ff. _seven-nights_ Dyce.

[3742] C. Lofft conjectured that the play should begin with this line; Strutt that it should commence with the following line.

[3743] _weird_] Theobald. _weyward_ Ff. _weyard_ Keightley.

[3744] _of_] _o'er_ A. Hunter.

[3745] _Thrice_] _Thice_ F2.

[3746] Banquo.] Banquo, with Soldiers and other Attendants. Rowe. Banquo, journeying; Soldiers, and Others, at a Distance. Capell.

[3747] SCENE IV. Pope.

[3748] _Forres_] _Foris_ Pope. _Soris_ Ff.

[3749] _the inhabitants o' the_] _inhabitants of_ Pope.

[3750] [To the Witches. Rowe.

[3751] _rapt_] Pope. _wrapt_ Ff.

[3752] _not_] _rot_ Porson conj. MS.

[3753] _So_] om. Pope.

[3754] First Witch.] 1. Ff. 1. 2. Capell.

[3755] _Sinel's_] _Finleg's_ Ritson conj. _Sinane's_ Beattie conj.

_I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3756] _With ... you._] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[3757] _Into ... stayed!_] As in Capell. Three lines, ending _corporall, ... winde ...stay'd_, in Ff.

[3758] _on_] _of_ F4.

[3759] _Who's_] _but who is_ Hanmer.

[3760] SCENE V. Pope.

[3761] _venture_] _'venture_ Warburton.

[3762] _contend Which ... that_,] _contend.--Silenced with that which should be thine, not his,_ Becket conj.

[3763] _should_] _would_ Pope.

[3764] _afeard_] _afraid_ F4.

[3765] _death. As_] Pope. _death; as_ Rowe. _death, as_ Ff.

[3766] _thick ... with post_] _quick as tale, Post follow'd post_ A. Hunter.

_hail Came_] Rowe. _tale Can_ Ff. _tale, Came_ Steevens (Johnson conj.). _bale Came_ Becket conj.

[3767] _with_] _on_ Pope.

[3768] _sent_] _not sent_ Hunter conj.

[3769] _Only ... pay thee._] _To herald thee into his sight, not pay thee._ Steevens (1793). _Only to herald thee into his sight._ Mitford conj.

[3770] _herald_] F4. _harrold_ F1. _herald_ F2F3.

_into his_] _to's_ or _in's_ S. Walker conj., reading _Only ... thee_ as one line.

[3771] _bade_] Theobald (ed. 2). _bad_ Ff.

[3772] _why ... robes?_] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[3773] _borrow'd_] Capell. _borrowed_ F1. _his borrowed_ F2F3F4. _his borrow'd_ Pope.

[3774] _Whether ... know not_] As in Malone. Five lines, ending _loose ... Norway ... helpe, ... labour'd ... not,_ in Ff. Four lines, ending _was ... rebel ... both ... not_, in Pope.

[3775] _those of_] om. Pope.

_did_] F1 and Pope. _else did_ F2F3F4.

[3776] _that_] om. Pope.

[3777] [Aside] Rowe. om. Ff.

[3778] [To Angus. Rowe.

[3779] [To Banquo. Rowe.

[3780] _trusted_] _thrusted_ Keightley (Malone conj.).

[3781] _betray's_] F1F3F4. _betrays_ F2. _betray us_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3782] _In ... you_] As in Ff. One line in Capell.

[3783] [To Rosse and Angus. Rowe. talks with Rosse and Angus apart. Capell.] [Aside] Rowe. om. Ff.

[3784] [Aside] Marked first by Capell.

[3785] _Cannot ... cannot_] _Can it ... can it_ Anon. conj.

_cannot be good_] _can it be good?_ Jackson conj.

[3786] _if ill ... success_,] As in Rowe. One line in Ff.

[3787] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3788] _unfix_] _upfix_ Warburton. _uplift_ A. Hunter.

_hair_] Rowe. _heire_ F1F2F3. _heir_ F4.

[3789] _fears_] _feats_ Theobald (Warburton). _acts_ A. Hunter.

[3790] _whose_] _where_ Collier MS.

_murder ... fantastical_] _murther's yet but fantasy_ Hanmer.

[3791] _Shakes ... not._] Arranged as in Pope. Three lines, ending _man, ... surmise, ... not_, in Ff.

[3792] _partner's_] F1F4. _partners_ F2F3.

[3793] [Aside] Rowe. om. Ff.

_If ... me_,] As in Rowe. Two lines in Ff.

[3794] [Aside] Johnson. om. Ff.

[3795] _Time and the hour_] _Time! on!--the hour_ Johnson conj. _Time and the honour_ Jackson conj. _Time's sandy hour_ Bailey conj.

[3796] _Give ... time_,] Arranged as in Pope. As seven lines, ending _favour ... forgotten ... registred, ... leafe, ... them ... upon ... time,_ in Ff. Six lines, ending _favour:-- ... forgotten ... register'd ... them.-- ... king ... time,_ in Knight.

[3797] _forgotten_] _forgot_ Pope.

[To Rosse and Angus. Johnson.

[3798] [To Banquo. Rowe.

[3799] _The_] _I' th'_ Steevens conj. _In the_ Keightley.

[3800] _Till ... friends_] As in Pope. Two lines in Ff.

[3801] SCENE IV.] Ff. SCENE VI. Pope.

Forres. The palace.] Foris. A Room in the Palace. Capell. A Palace. Rowe.

[3802] Duncan,] Capell. King, Ff.

Malcolm ... Lennox,] Rowe. Lenox, Malcolme, Donalbaine, Ff.

[3803] Dun.] Capell. King. Ff (and throughout).

_Is ... not_] Arranged as by Capell. The line ends at _Cawdor?_ in Ff.

_Cawdor?_] _Cawdor yet?_ Pope.

_Are_] F2 F3 F4. _Or_ F1.

[3804] _My liege, ... died_] Arranged as by Pope. Seven lines, ending _back ... die: ... hee ... pardon, ... repentance: ... him, ... dy'de,_ in Ff.

[3805] _owed_] _own'd_] Warburton (Johnson conj.). _had_ A. Hunter.

[3806] _worthiest_] _my most worthy_ Hanmer.

[3807] _Was_] _Is_ A. Hunter.

_thou art_] _Thou'rt_ Pope.

[3808] _That_] _The_ Jennens.

_wing_] F1. _wine_ F2 F3 F4. _wind_ Rowe.

[3809] _thou hadst_] _thou'dst_ Pope.

[3810] _mine_] _more_ Collier (Collier MS.), _mean_ Staunton conj.

_I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3811] _than more_] _ev'n more_ Hanmer. _nay, more_ A. Hunter.

[3812] _Your ... honour._] Arranged as in Pope. Five lines, ending _duties: ... state, ... should, ... love ... honor,_ in Ff.

[3813] _by ... Safe toward_] _in doing nothing, Save tow'rds_ Johnson conj.

[3814] _Safe_] _Shap'd_ Hanmer. _Fief'd_ Warburton. _Fiefs_ Warburton conj. _Serves_ Heath conj. _Saf'd_ Malone conj.

_Safe toward your_] _Safe to ward your_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 713). _Safe-toward your_ Seymour conj. _Your safeguards_ Becket conj.

_your_] _you_ Blackstone conj.

_love_] _life_ Warburton.

[3815] _nor_] _and_ Rowe.

[3816] _kinsmen_] F1. _kinsman_ F2 F3 F4.

_thanes_] _and thanes_, Hanmer.

[3817] _unaccompanied_] _accompanied_ Warburton and Johnson.

[3818] _From_] om. Pope.

_Inverness_] Pope. _Envernes_ Ff.

[3819] S. Walker would end the lines _labour, ... you._

[3820] _harbinger_] Rowe. _herbenger_ F1 F2 F3. _harbenger_ F4.

[3821] [Aside] Rowe. om. Ff.

[3822] _not light_] _no light_ Hanmer. _not night_ Warburton.

[3823] _so valiant_] _of valour_ Hanmer.

[3824] _Let's_] _let us_ Pope.

[3825] _It_,] _He_ A. Hunter.

[Flourish. Exeunt.] F3. Exeunt. F2 F3 F4.

[3826] SCENE V.] SCENE VII. Pope.

Inverness. Macbeth's castle.] An Apartment in Macbeth's Castle. Rowe. An ... Castle at Inverness. Pope.

[3827] Enter Lady Macbeth ...] Enter Macbeths Wife alone with a Letter. Ff. Enter Lady Macbeth alone with a Letter. Rowe. Enter Lady Macbeth, reading. Capell.

[3828] Lady M.] Lady. Ff.

[3829] _perfectest_] Rowe (ed. 2). _perfectst_ F1 F2. _perfect'st_ F3 F4. _perfected_ Warburton.

[3830] _Whiles_] _While_ Pope.

[3831] _all-hailed_] _all-hail'd_ F1. _all hail'd_ F2 F3 F4. _all, hail'd_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[3832] _weird_] Theobald. _weyward_ Ff. _wayward_ Rowe.

[3833] _shalt be_] _shalt be hereafter_ Upton conj.

[3834] _the dues_] _thy dues_ Capell conj.

[3835] _art_] _art now_ Seymour conj.

[3836] _do I_] _I do_ F4. I Pope.

[3837] _human_] Rowe. _humane_ Ff.

[3838] _And ... it_;] As in Pope. Three lines, ending _winne ... cryes, ... it,_ in Ff.

[3839] _thou'ldst ... undone.'_] See note (I).

[3840] _Hie_] F4. _High_ F1 F2 F3.

[3841] _impedes thee_] _impeides thee_ F1. _thee hinders_ F2 F3 F4.

[3842] _metaphysical_] _metaphysic_ Pope.

_doth seem_] _doth seek_ Johnson conj. _do strive_ Anon. conj.

[3843] _thee crown'd_] _crown'd thee_ Warburton.

[3844] Enter a Messenger.] Enter Messenger. Ff. Enter an Attendant. Capell.

[3845] Mess.] Att. Capell.

[3846] _He ... hoarse_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[Exit Messenger.] Ff. Exit Att. Capell.

_himself is_] _himself's not_ Warburton.

[3847] _you spirits_] _all you spirits_ Pope (Davenant's version). _come, you spirits_ Steevens (1793). _spirits of evil_ Keightley.

[3848] _mortal_] _deadly_ A. Hunter.

[3849] _direst_] _direct_ Warburton and Johnson.

[3850] _peace_] _pace_ Johnson conj.

[3851] _The effect and it_] _The effecting it_ Becket conj.

_effect_] _essect_ F2.

_it_] F3 F4. _hit_ F1 F2.

[3852] _for gall_] _with gall_ Keightley.

[3853] _blanket_] Ff. _blank height_ Coleridge conj. _blankness_ Collier MS. _blackness_ Bailey conj. _blankest_ Jessopp conj. _blonket_ Anon. (N. and Q.) conj.

[3854] [Embracing him. Rowe.

[3855] _present_] _present time_ Pope.

_feel_] _feel e'en_ Hunter conj. _feel me_ Anon. conj.

[3856] _My_] om. Pope.

[3857] _sun_] _his sun_ Jackson conj.

[3858] _a_] om. F2.

[3859] _matters. To ... time_,] Theobald. _matters, to ... time._ Ff.

[3860] _to fear_] _and fear_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[3861] SCENE VI.] SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE IV. Rowe (ed. 1).

Before....] The Castle Gate. Rowe. Before Macbeth's Castle Gate. Theobald.

[3862] Hautboys and torches.] Hoboyes, and Torches. Ff (Hoboys, F4). Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth with Torches. Capell.

Enter Duncan....] Enter King.... Ff.

[3863] _seat_] _site_ Johnson conj.

[3864] _the air ... itself_] As in Rowe. One line in Ff.

[3865] _Unto ... senses_] _Gentle unto our sense_ Becket conj.

_gentle senses_] _general sense_ Warburton. _gentle sense_ Capell (Johnson conj.).

[3866] _martlet_] Rowe. _Barlet_ Ff.

[3867] _loved mansionry_] _love-mansionry_ Staunton conj.

_mansionry_] Theobald. _mansonry_ Ff. _masonry_ Pope (ed. 2).

_the_] om. Pope.

[3868] _Smells ... delicate_] Steevens (1793) ends the lines _buttress, ... made ... they ... air ... delicate._

[3869] _wooingly_] _sweet and wooingly_ Hanmer.

_wooingly here: no_] _wooingly. Here is no_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn).

_jutty, frieze_] Steevens (1793). _jutty frieze_ Ff. _jutting frieze_ Pope. _jutty_, (word omitted) _frieze_ S. Walker conj.

[3870] _bird_] _bird on't_ Keightley.

[3871] _cradle: ... haunt_,] Rowe. _cradle, ... haunt_: Ff.

[3872] _most_] Rowe. _must_ Ff. _much_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[3873] Enter Lady Macbeth.] Enter Lady. Ff (and passim).

_See, see_,] _See!_ Hanmer.

[3874] _sometime is_] _sometime's_ Pope (ed. 1). _sometimes_ Pope (ed. 2). _sometimes is_ Theobald.

[3875] _you How you_] _you:--How?--You_ Jackson conj.

[3876] _shall_] _should_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_God'ild_] _God-eyld_ Ff. _Godild_ Hanmer. _God-yeld_ Warburton. _god-yield_ Johnson. _God shield_ Johnson conj.

[3877] _Against ... hermits_] As in Pope. In Ff the first three lines end _broad, ... house: ... dignities_.

[3878] _hermits_] F3 F4. _Ermites_ F1. _Hermites_ F2.

[3879] _as_] _at_ F2.

[3880] _To his_] _To's_ Pope.

[3881] _theirs, in compt_,] _theirs, in compt_ Pope. _theirs in compt_, Ff.

[3882] _host: we_] _host, we_ F3 F4. _host we_ F1 F2.

[3883] [kisses her. Nicholson conj.

[3884] SCENE VII.] SCENE IX. Pope.

Macbeth's castle.] An Apartment. Rowe. An Apartment in Macbeth's Castle. Theobald.

[3885] Hautboys and torches.] Ho-boyes. Torches. F1 F2. Ho boyes. Torches. F3. Hoboys. Torches. F4.

Enter ... and pass over....] Enter ... over.... Ff.

a Sewer, and] om. Rowe.

[3886] _well It ... quickly: if_] _well, It ... quickly: If_ Ff. _well. It ... quickly. If_ Anon, apud Johnson conj. _well. It ... quickly if_ Grant White (Anon. conj. N. and Q.).

[3887] _assassination_] _assassinator_ Becket conj.

[3888] _his_] _its_ Pope.

_surcease, success_] _success, surcease_ A. Hunter (Johnson conj.).

[3889] _be ... end-all_] _be the all, and be the end of all--_Rowe (ed. 2).

_be-all_] Hyphen inserted by Pope.

_end-all_] Hyphen inserted by Pope.

_end-all here_,] Hanmer. _end all. Heere,_ Ff (_Here_ F3 F4). _end all--Here_, Rowe (ed. 1). _end-all--Here._ Warburton.

[3890] _But here, upon_] _Here only on_ Pope.

_shoal_ Theobald. _schoole_ F1 F2. _school_ F3 F4. _shelve_ Warburton. _school'd_ Becket conj.

_time_,] _time--_ Rowe.

[3891] _instructions_] _inductions_ Becket conj.

[3892] _the inventor ... Commends_] F1. Omitted in F2 F3 F4 and Rowe.

[3893] _this_] om. Pope. _thus_, Collier, ed. 2 (Mason conj.).

[3894] _Commends_] _Returns_ Pope. _ingredients_] Pope. _ingredience_ Ff.

[3895] _his_] F1. _this_ F2 F3 F4.

_faculties_] F1 F2. _faculty_ F3 F4.

[3896] _against_] _again_ Johnson.

[3897] _cherubin_] Ff. _cherubim_ Jennens.

[3898] _couriers_] Pope. _Curriors_ Ff. _curriers_ Rowe. _coursers_ Theobald (Warburton).

[3899] _itself_] _its sell_ Singleton conj. _its seat_ Bailey conj.

[3900] _on the other._] _on th' other._ Ff. _on th' other--_ Rowe. _on th' other side._ Hanmer. _upon the other._ Steevens conj. _on the rider._ Mason conj. _on theory._ Jackson conj. _on th' earth._ or _upon th' earth._ Bailey conj. _on the other bank._ Anon. conj.

[3901] SCENE X. Pope.

[3902] _He has_] _He's_ Pope. _He hath_ Hanmer.

[3903] _Know you not he has?_] _Know you not? he has._ Capell conj.

[3904] _sorts_] _sort_ Theobald.

[3905] _would_] _should_ Pope.

[3906] _dress'd_] _bless'd_ Bailey conj.

[3907] _did_] _bid_ Becket conj. _eyed_ Bailey conj.

_time_] After this Keightley marks a line omitted.

[3908] _love_] _liver_ Bailey conj.

_afeard_] _affear'd_ F1 F2 F3. _afraid_ F4.

[3909] _have ... And_] _leave ... And_ or _have ... Or_ Johnson conj. _crave ... And_ Becket conj. _lack ... And_ Anon. conj.

[3910] _adage?_] Capell. _adage._ Ff.

[3911] _Who ... none._] Given to Lady M., reading _no_, Hunter conj.

_do_] Rowe and Southern MS. _no_ Ff.

_beast was't_] _boast was't_ Collier MS. _baseness was't_ Bailey conj. _was it_ Hunter conj.

[3912] _the_] _than_ Hanmer.

[3913] _adhere_] _co-here_ Pope.

[3914] _They have_] _They've_ Pope.

[3915] _And ... this._] As in Steevens (1793). In Ff the first line ends at _sworne_.

[3916] _brains_] _branes_ F2.

_out_] _on't out_ S. Walker conj.

_so_] F1 _but so_ F2F3F4. om. Seymour conj.

[3917] _fail?_] _fail?--_ Rowe. _fail,--_ Theobald (ed. 2).

_fail!_] Rowe. _faile?_ F1F2 _fail?_ F3F4. _fail._ Capell.

[3918] _his_] _this_ Pope.

[3919] _convince_] _confound_ A. Hunter.

[3920] _lie_] _lyes_ F1.

[3921] _mettle_] _metal_ F4.

[3922] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[3923] _Away ... know._] Given to Lady M., Hunter conj.