Chapter XXIV: Act II: SCENE I. Inverness. Court of Macbeth's Castle.3924

_Enter_ BANQUO, _and_ FLEANCE _bearing a torch before him_.[3925]

_Ban._ How goes the night, boy?

_Fle._ The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.[3926]

_Ban._ And she goes down at twelve.

_Fle._ I take't, 'tis later, sir.

_Ban._ Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven,[3927]
Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. 5
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,[3928]
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature[3928]
Gives way to in repose![3928][3929]

_Enter_ MACBETH, _and a_ Servant _with a torch_.[3930]

Give me my sword.
Who's there?[3929] 10

_Macb._ A friend.

_Ban._ What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:
He hath been in unusual pleasure, and[3931]
Sent forth great largess to your offices:[3931]
This diamond he greets your wife withal, 15
By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up[3932][3933]
In measureless content.[3932]

_Macb._ Being unprepared,
Our will became the servant to defect,
Which else should free have wrought.

_Ban._ All's well.[3934]
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:[3935] 20
To you they have show'd some truth.[3936]

_Macb._ I think not of them:
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,[3937]
If you would grant the time.

_Ban._ At your kind'st leisure.[3938]

_Macb._ If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis[3939][3940] 25
It shall make honour for you.[3940]

_Ban._ So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.

_Macb._ Good repose the while!

_Ban._ Thanks, sir: the like to you![3941] 30

[_Exeunt Banquo and Fleance._[3942]

_Macb._ Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [_Exit Servant._[3943]
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 35
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable 40
As this which now I draw.[3944][3945]
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;[3944][3945]
And such an instrument I was to use.[3944][3945]
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,[3945]
Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still;[3945] 45
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,[3946]
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world[3947]
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 50
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates[3948]
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder,[3949]
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,[3950]
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design[3951] 55
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,[3952]
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear[3953]
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,[3954]
And take the present horror from the time,[3955]
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:[3955][3956] 60
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.[3957]

[_A bell rings._

I go, and it is done: the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. [_Exit._

SCENE II. _The same._[3958]

_Enter_ LADY MACBETH.

_Lady M._ That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace![3959]
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,[3959]
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:[3959]
The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms[3959] 5
Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their
possets,[3959][3960]
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.

_Macb._ [_Within_] Who's there? what, ho![3961]

_Lady M._ Alack, I am afraid they have awaked
And 'tis not done: the attempt and not the deed[3962] 10
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled[3963]
My father as he slept, I had done 't.[3964]

_Enter_ MACBETH.

My husband!

_Macb._ I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?[3965]

_Lady M._ I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. 15
Did not you speak?[3966]

_Macb._ When?

_Lady M._ Now.

_Macb._ As I descended?

_Lady M._ Ay.

_Macb._ Hark![3967]
Who lies i' the second chamber?[3967]

_Lady M._ Donalbain.

_Macb._ This is a sorry sight. [_Looking on his hands._[3968] 20

_Lady M._ A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.

_Macb._ There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried
'Murder!'[3969][3970]
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:[3969][3971]
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them[3969][3972]
Again to sleep.[3969]

_Lady M._ There are two lodged together.[3969] 25

_Macb._ One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands:[3973]
Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'[3973][3974]
When they did say 'God bless us!'[3975]

_Lady M._ Consider it not so deeply. 30

_Macb._ But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'[3976]
Stuck in my throat.[3976]

_Lady M._ These deeds must not be thought[3977][3978]
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.[3977]

_Macb._ Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more![3979] 35
Macbeth does murder sleep'--the innocent sleep,[3979][3980]
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,[3981]
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,[3982]
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,[3983]
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--

_Lady M._ What do you mean?[3984] 40

_Macb._ Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor[3985][3986]
Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.'[3985]

_Lady M._ Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think 45
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them, and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.

_Macb._ I'll go no more: 50
I am afraid to think what I have done;[3987]
Look on 't again I dare not.

_Lady M._ Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,[3988] 55
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,[3989]
For it must seem their guilt. [_Exit. Knocking within._[3990]

_Macb._ Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?[3991]
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes!
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood 60
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,[3992][3993]
Making the green one red.[3992][3994]

_Re-enter_ LADY MACBETH.[3995]

_Lady M._ My hands are of your colour, but I shame
To wear a heart so white. [_Knocking within_] I hear a
knocking[3996][3997] 65
At the south entry: retire we to our chamber:[3997]
A little water clears us of this deed:[3997]
How easy is it then! Your constancy[3997]
Hath left you unattended. [_Knocking within_] Hark! more
knocking:[3996][3997]
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us 70
And show us to be watchers: be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.

_Macb._ To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.[3996][3998][3999]

[_Knocking within._

Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst![3998][4000]

[_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _The same._[4001]

_Enter a_ Porter. _Knocking within._

_Porter._ Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter[4002][4003]
of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.
[_Knocking[4002][4003][4004][4005]_
_within_] Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of[4002][4003]
Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged himself on th'
expectation[4002][4003][4006]
of plenty: come in time; have napkins enow about[4002][4003][4007] 5
you; here you'll sweat for't. [_Knocking within._]
Knock,[4002][4003][4004][4008]
knock! Who's there, in th' other devil's name? Faith,[4002][4003][4009]
here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales[4002][4003]
against either scale; who committed treason enough
for[4002][4003][4010]
God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come[4002][4003] 10
in, equivocator. [_Knocking within._] Knock, knock,
knock![4002][4003][4004]
Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither,[4002][4003]
for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here
you[4002][4003]
may roast your goose. [_Knocking within._] Knock,
knock;[4002][4003][4004]
never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too
cold[4002][4003] 15
for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to[4002][4003]
have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose[4002][4003]
way to the everlasting bonfire. [_Knocking within._]
Anon,[4002][4003][4004][4011]
anon! I pray you, remember the porter.

[_Opens the gate._[4002][4003]

_Enter_ MACDUFF _and_ LENNOX.

_Macd._ Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,[4002] 20
That you do lie so late?[4002]

_Port._ Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock:[4002][4012]
and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.[4002][4012][4013]

_Macd._ What three things does drink especially provoke?[4002]

_Port._ Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery,[4002] 25
sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire,[4002]
but it takes away the performance: therefore much drink[4002]
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes[4002]
him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off;[4002]
it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand[4002] 30
to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a[4002][4014]
sleep, and giving him the lie, leaves him.[4002][4014]

_Macd._ I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.[4002]

_Port._ That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me: but I[4002][4015]
requited him for his lie, and, I think, being too strong for[4002] 35
him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a[4002][4016]
shift to cast him.[4002]

_Macd._ Is thy master stirring?

_Enter_ MACBETH.[4017]

Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.

_Len._ Good morrow, noble sir.

_Macb._ Good morrow, both. 40

_Macd._ Is the king stirring, worthy thane?

_Macb._ Not yet.

_Macd._ He did command me to call timely on him:
I have almost slipp'd the hour.[4018]

_Macb._ I'll bring you to him.

_Macd._ I know this is a joyful trouble to you;
But yet 'tis one. 45

_Macb._ The labour we delight in physics pain.[4019]
This is the door.[4020]

_Macd._ I'll make so bold to call,[4021]
For 'tis my limited service.[4021][4022] [_Exit._

_Len._ Goes the king hence to-day?[4023]

_Macb._ He does: he did appoint so.

_Len._ The night has been unruly: where we lay,[4024] 50
Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,[4024]
Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death,[4024]
And prophesying with accents terrible[4025][4026]
Of dire combustion and confused events[4026][4027][4028]
New hatch'd to the woful time: the obscure
bird[4026][4028][4029][4030] 55
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth[4029]
Was feverous and did shake.[4029]

_Macb._ Twas a rough night.

_Len._ My young remembrance cannot parallel
A fellow to it.

_Re-enter_ MACDUFF.[4031]

_Macd._ O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart[4032][4033] 60
Cannot conceive nor name thee.[4032]

_Macb._ }
_Len._ } What's the matter?

_Macd._ Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.

_Macb._ What is't you say? the life? 65

_Len._ Mean you his majesty?

_Macd._ Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight[4034]
With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves. [_Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox._
Awake, awake![4035]
Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! 70
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo![4036]
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, 75
To countenance this horror. Ring the bell. [_Bell rings._[4037]

_Enter_ LADY MACBETH.[4038]

_Lady M._ What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley[4039]
The sleepers of the house? speak, speak![4040]

_Macd._ O gentle lady,
'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: 80
The repetition, in a woman's ear,
Would murder as it fell.

_Enter_ BANQUO.[4041]

O Banquo, Banquo![4042]
Our royal master's murder'd.[4042]

_Lady M._ Woe, alas!
What, in our house?

_Ban._ Too cruel any where.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,[4043] 85
And say it is not so.[4044]

_Re-enter_ MACBETH _and_ LENNOX, _with_ ROSS.

_Macb._ Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;[4045] 90
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.[4046]

_Enter_ MALCOLM _and_ DONALBAIN.

_Don._ What is amiss?

_Macb._ You are, and do not know't:[4047][4048]
The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood[4047]
Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. 95

_Macd._ Your royal father's murder'd.

_Mal._ O, by whom?

_Len._ Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done't:[4049]
Their hands and faces were all badged with blood;[4050]
So were their daggers, which unwiped we found
Upon their pillows:[4051] 100
They stared, and were distracted; no man's life[4051][4052]
Was to be trusted with them.[4051]

_Macb._ O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
That I did kill them.[4053]

_Macd._ Wherefore did you so?

_Macb._ Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,[4054] 105
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
The expedition of my violent love
Outrun the pauser reason. Here lay Duncan,[4055]
His silver skin laced with his golden blood,[4056]
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature 110
For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,[4057]
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make's love known?

_Lady M._ Help me hence, ho![4058] 115

_Macd._ Look to the lady.[4059][4060]

_Mal._ [_Aside to Don._] Why do we hold our tongues,[4059][4061]
That most may claim this argument for ours?[4059]

_Don._ [_Aside to Mal._] What should be spoken here, where our
fate,[4059][4062]
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?[4059][4061][4062][4063]
Let's away;[4062] 120
Our tears are not yet brew'd.[4061]

_Mal._ [_Aside to Don._] Nor our strong sorrow
Upon the foot of motion.[4064]

_Ban._ Look to the lady:

[_Lady Macbeth is carried out._

And when we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work, 125
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.

_Macd._ And so do I.[4065]

_All._ So all.

_Macb._ Let's briefly put on manly readiness, 130
And meet i' the hall together.[4066]

_All._ Well contented.

[_Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain._

_Mal._ What will you do? Let's not consort with them:[4067]
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.[4068]

_Don._ To Ireland, I; our separated fortune[4069] 135
Shall keep us both the safer: where we are[4069]
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,[4069][4070]
The nearer bloody.[4069]

_Mal._ This murderous shaft that's shot
Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse;[4071] 140
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that theft
Which steals itself when there's no mercy left. [_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _Outside Macbeth's castle._[4072]

_Enter_ ROSS _with an_ old Man.

_Old M._ Threescore and ten I can remember well:
Within the volume of which time I have seen[4073]
Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.

_Ross._ Ah, good father,[4074]
Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, 5
Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day,[4075]
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:[4076]
Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
When living light should kiss it?

_Old M._ 'Tis unnatural,[4077] 10
Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last
A falcon towering in her pride of place
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.

_Ross._ And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--[4078]
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,[4079] 15
Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,[4080]
Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make[4081]
War with mankind.[4081][4082]

_Old M._ 'Tis said they eat each other.

_Ross._ They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes,[4083]
That look'd upon't.[4083]

_Enter_ MACDUFF.

Here comes the good Macduff.[4083][4084] 20
How goes the world, sir, now?

_Macd._ Why, see you not?

_Ross._ Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?

_Macd._ Those that Macbeth hath slain.

_Ross._ Alas, the day!
What good could they pretend?

_Macd._ They were suborn'd:[4085]
Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, 25
Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.

_Ross._ 'Gainst nature still:
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up[4086]
Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like[4087]
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. 30

_Macd._ He is already named, and gone to Scone[4088]
To be invested.

_Ross._ Where is Duncan's body?

_Macd._ Carried to Colme-kill,[4089]
The sacred storehouse of his predecessors
And guardian of their bones.

_Ross._ Will you to Scone? 35

_Macd._ No, cousin, I'll to Fife.

_Ross._ Well, I will thither.

_Macd._ Well, may you see things well done there: adieu![4090]
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!

_Ross._ Farewell, father.

_Old M._ God's benison go with you, and with those[4091] 40
That would make good of bad and friends of foes!

[_Exeunt._[4092]

FOOTNOTES:

[3924] Inverness ... castle.] The same. Court within the Castle. Capell (Johnson conj.). A Hall. Rowe. A Hall in Macbeth's Castle. Pope.

[3925] Enter ...] Collier (substantially). Enter Banquo, and Fleance, with a Torch before him. Ff. Enter Banquo, and Fleance; Servant with a Torch before them. Capell.

[3926] _The moon ... clock._] _I've not ... clock: The moon is down._ Seymour conj., ending the first line at _clock._

[3927] _Hold ... heaven_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

_There's_] _'Tis very dark; there's_ Seymour conj.

[3928] _And ... repose!_] As in Rowe. In Ff lines 7 and 8 end _sleepe: ... thoughts._

[3929] _Gives ... there?_] As in Hanmer. In Ff the lines end _repose ... there?_

[3930] Enter ...] Ff. After _sword_ in Capell. After _there?_ in Dyce.

_Give ... sword_] om. Seymour conj., reading _Gives ... friend_ as one line.

[3931] _He ... offices_] See note (II).

[3932] _By ... content._] Arranged as in Pope. The first line ends _hostesse_, in Ff.

[3933] _hostess_;] An omission here. Anon. conj.

_and shut up_] _And shut up_ F1. _And shut it up_ F2F3F4. _and's shut up_ Hanmer.

[3934] _All's_] _Sir, all is_ Steevens conj.

_well_] _very well_ Hanmer.

[3935] _weird_] Theobald. _weyward_ Ff.

[3936] _they have_] _they've_ Pope.

[3937] _We would_] _Would_ Pope.

_it in_] _it_ Rowe (ed. 1). om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[3938] _kind'st_] F1. _kindst_ F2. _kind_ F3F4. _kindest_ A. Hunter.

_leisure_] See note (III)

[3939] _my consent_] _my ascent_ Capell conj. MS. _my content_ Malone conj. _my concent_ Id. conj. (withdrawn), _me constant_ Jackson conj. _my convent_ Becket conj. _my consort_ Grant White conj.

[3940] _when 'tis ... you._] As in Rowe. One line in Ff.

[3941] [Exeunt....] Theobald. Exit Banquo. Ff.

[3942] SCENE II. Pope.

[3943] [Exit Servant.] Rowe. Exit. Ff.

[3944] _As ... use._] S. Walker would end the lines _me ... instrument ... use._

[3945] _As ... still_;] Five lines, ending _me ... instrument ... fools ... rest ... still;_ in Keightley.

[3946] _thy blade and dudgeon_] _the blade of th' dudgeon_ Warburton. _thy blade, vain dudgeon,_ Becket conj.

[3947] _Thus_] _This_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_the one half-world_] _one half the world_ Pope.

[3948] _sleep_] F3 F4. _sleepe_ F1 F2. _sleeper_ Rann (Steevens conj.).

_witchcraft_] _now witchcraft_ Rowe (Davenant's version). _while witchcraft_ Nicholson conj.

[3949] _wither'd_] _with her_ Seward conj.

[3950] _howl's_] F3 F4. _howle's_ F1. _howles_ F2.

[3951] _With Tarquin's ... strides_,] Pope. _With Tarquins ... sides_, Ff. _Tarquin's ... slides,_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766). _With Tarquin ravishing, slides_ Johnson conj. _With ravishing Tarquin's sides,_ Becket conj. _With Tarquin's ravishing ideas,_ Jackson conj. (_Which Tarquin's ravishing sides_) Knight conj. _Or Tarquin's ravishing strides_ Hunter conj. _With ravishing Tarquin's strides,_ Staunton conj.

[3952] _sure_] Capell (Pope conj.). _sowre_ F1 F2. _sowr_ F3. _sour_ F4. _sound_ Pope.

_sure and_] _sovrand_ Becket conj.

[3953] _Hear_] _Heed_ Becket conj.

_which way they_] Rowe. _which they may_ Ff. _where they may_ Barry conj.

_walk, for_] _walk. For_ Becket conj.

[3954] _Thy_] _The_ A. Hunter.

_of my whereabout_] _of that we're about_ Hanmer. _of me: veer about_ or _of me: wheel about_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766).

[3955] _And take ... Which_] _And talk--The present horrour of the time! That_ Johnson conj.

[3956] _Whiles_] _Whilst_ Rowe. _While_ Capell.

[3957] _Words ... gives._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[3958] SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope. Theobald continues the scene.

The same.] Capell.

[3959] _What ... possets_,] Arranged as in Rowe. In Ff the lines end _fire ... shriek'd, ... night ... open: ... charge ... possets_.

[3960] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3961] Macb. [Within] Steevens. Enter Macbeth. Macb. Ff.

[3962] _attempt and ... deed_] Edd., Globe ed. (Hunter conj.). _attempt, and ... deed,_ Ff.

[3963] _'em_] _them_ Capell.

[3964] Enter Macbeth.] Steevens (1793). Re-enter Macbeth. Dyce, after _husband!_

_My husband!_ As in Rowe. A separate line in Ff.

[3965] _I ... noise?_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

_I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[3966] _Did ... descended?_] Macb. _Did ... speak?_ Lady M. _When? Now?_ Macb. _As ... descended._ Hunter conj.

[3967] _Hark!... chamber?_] Arranged as by Steevens (1793). One line in Ff.

[3968] [Looking....] Looks.... Pope. om. Ff.

[3969] _There's ... sleep._] Arranged as by Rowe. The lines end _sleepe, ... other: ... prayers, ... sleepe,_ in Ff.

[3970] _in's_] _in his_ Capell.

[3971] _That ... I_] _They wak'd each other; and I_ Pope.

[3972] _address'd_] _address_ Theobald.

[3973] _hands: ... fear_,] Pointed as in Ff. _hands, ... fear_; Rowe.

[3974] _fear_] _prayer_ Anon. conj.

[3975] _did say_] om. Steevens conj.

[3976] _I had ... throat._] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3977] _These ... ways_;] As in Ff. One line in Rowe.

[3978] _thought_] _thought on_ Hanmer.

[3979] _'Sleep ... sleep'_] See note (IV).

[3980] _does_] _doth_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[3981] _Sleep ... care_,] Put in the margin by Pope.

_sleave_] Steevens (Seward conj.). _sleeve_ Ff.

[3982] _death_] _birth_ Warburton. _breath_ Becket conj.

_life_] _grief_ Jennens conj.

[3983] _course_] _source_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

[3984] _feast,--_] _feast.--_ Theobald. _feast._ Ff.

[3985] _'Glamis ... more.'_] See note (IV).

[3986] _Glamis_] _For Glamis_ Seymour conj.

[3987] _what_] _on what_ Keightley.

[3988] _do_] om. Pope.

[3989] _gild_] F3 F4. _guild_ F1. _guilde_ F2.

[3990] [Knocking....] Knocke.... Ff. Knocks.... Rowe (ed. 2).

_knocking?_] _knocking?_ [Starting. Rowe.

[3991] _is't_] _is it_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[3992] _The ... red_] _Make the green ocean red--_ Pope, putting _Thy multitudinous sea incarnadine_ in the margin.

[3993] _The_] _Thy_ Theobald, after Pope's margin.

_seas_] _sear_ F4. _sea_ Rowe.

_incarnadine_] Rowe. _incarnardine_ Ff.

[3994] _green one red._] _Green one Red._ F4. _Greene one, Red_ F1 F2 F3. _green, One red--_ Johnson. _green--one red._ Steevens, 1778 (Murphy conj.).

[3995] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Lady. Ff.

[3996] [Knocking within.] Dyce. Knocke. Ff. Knocking without. Staunton.

[3997] _To ... knocking_:] Arranged as in Pope. Seven lines, ending _white ... entry: ... chamber: ... deed ... constancie unattended ... knocking,_ in Ff.

[3998] _To ... couldst!_] Two lines in Pope. Four in Ff.

[3999] _To know_] _T' unknow_ Hanmer.

[Knocking....] Knocke. Ff. om. Pope.

[4000] _Wake ... thy_] _Wake Duncan with this_ Rowe. _Wake, Duncan, with this_ Theobald (Davenant's version).

_I would_] _would_ Pope. _Ay, 'would_ Steevens (1793).

[4001] SCENE III.] Scene continued in Rowe. SCENE IV. Warburton, following Pope's margin. SCENE II. Staunton.

The same.] Capell.

[4002] Porter. _Here's ... cast him._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[4003] Blank verse, Maginn conj.

[4004] [Knocking within.] Knock. Ff.

[4005] _he should have old_] _he could not have more_ A. Hunter.

[4006] _on_] _in_ Pope. _upon_ Maginn conj.

[4007] _come in time_] _come in, Time_ Staunton. _come in, farmer_ Anon. conj.

_enow_] F1. _enough_ F2 F3 F4.

[4008] _you'll_] _you will_ Rann.

[4009] _in th'_] _i'th'_ Theobald (ed. 2).

_Faith_] _I' faith_ Maginn conj.

[4010] _who_] _one who_ Maginn conj.

[4011] _bonfire_] _darkness._ So quoted by Maginn.

[4012] _Faith ... things._] Prose first by Johnson. Two lines in Ff.

[4013] _of three things ... cast him._] _of sleep._ A. Hunter.

[4014] _in a sleep_] _into a sleep_ Rowe. _into sleep_ Mason conj. _asleep_ Collier MS.

[4015] _on me_] _o' me_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[4016] _up_] om. Warburton.

[4017] SCENE IV. Pope.

Enter M.] Collier. After line 37 in Ff. After _noble sir_, line 40, in Pope. After line 39 in Capell. Re-enter M. Dyce, after line 39.

[4018] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[4019] _physics_] _Physicks_ F1 F2. _Physick's_ F3 F4.

[4020] _This_] _That_ Capell (MS. correction).

[4021] _I'll ... service._] As verse first by Hanmer. Prose in Ff.

[4022] [Exit.] Capell. Exit Macduffe. Ff.

[4023] _hence_] _From hence_ Steevens (1793), reading _For ... king From ... so_, as two lines.

_He does_:] om. Pope.

[4024] _The ... death_,] As in Rowe. Four lines, ending _unruly: ... downe, ... ayre ... Death_, in Ff.

[4025] _And prophesying_] _And prophesyings_ Hanmer. _Aunts prophesying_ Warburton conj.

[4026] _And ... time: the_] _And ... time. The_ Ff. _And, ... time, the_ Knight (Anon. conj.).

[4027] _combustion_] F1. _combustions_ F2 F3 F4.

[4028] _events New ... time: the_] _events, New ... time. The_ Ff. _events. New ... time, the_ Johnson conj.

[4029] _New ... shake._] Arranged as in Hanmer. Four lines, ending _time ... Night ... fevorous ... shake_, in Ff. Three in Rowe, ending _time ... night, ... shake_.

[4030] _obscure_] _obscene_ S. Walker conj.

[4031] Re-enter M.] Re-enter M., hastily. Capell. Enter M. Ff.

[4032] _Tongue ... thee._] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[4033] _Tongue nor_] _Or tongue or_ Pope. _Nor tongue, nor_ Theobald.

[4034] Macd.] F1. Macb. F2 F3 F4.

[4035] [Exeunt ...] Ff, after _awake, awake._

[4036] _Banquo!_] _Donalbain!_ Hanmer. _Banquo! rise!_ Johnson conj.

[4037] _Ring the bell._ [Bell rings.] Ff. Bell rings. Theobald, omitting _Ring the bell_.

[Bell rings.] Alarum-bell rings. Dyce.

Enter ...] Re-enter ... Dyce.

[4038] SCENE V. Pope.

[4039] _a_] _an_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[4040] _speak, speak!_] _speak._ Pope.

_O_] om. Pope.

[4041] Enter Banquo.] Enter Banquo, and Others. Capell. Re-enter Banquo. Dyce.

[4042] _O ... murder'd._] As in Theobald. One line in Ff.

[4043] _Dear Duff_] _Macduff_ Pope.

_contradict_] _contract_ F2 F3 F4.

[4044] Re-enter ...] Enter Macbeth, Lenox, and Rosse. Ff. Re-enter Macbeth, and Lenox. Capell.

[4045] _is dead_] _are dead_ Hanmer.

[4046] _Is_] _Are_ Hanmer.

[4047] _You are ... head_,] _You are, and do not know it, The spring, the head:_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 810).

[4048] _know't_] _know it_ Steevens.

[4049] _seem'd, had_] _seems, have_ A. Hunter.

[4050] _badged_] _bath'd_ Malone conj. (withdrawn).

[4051] _Upon ... them._] As in Steevens (1793). Two lines, the first ending _distracted_, in Ff.

[4052] _no_] _As no_ Hanmer, reading _As ... them_ as one line.

[4053] _them._] _them--_ Rowe.

[4054] _amazed_] _and maz'd_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 35).

[4055] _Outrun_] _Outran_ Johnson.

[4056] _His ... blood_] _His snow-white skin streaked with his crimson blood_ A. Hunter.

_laced_] _laqu'd_ Warburton conj.

_golden_] _goary_ Pope.

[4057] _Unmannerly breech'd_] _Unmanly reech'd_ Warburton. _Unmanly drench'd_ Johnson. _Unmannerly hatch'd_ Seward conj. _In a manner lay drench'd_ Heath conj.

[4058] _make's_] _make his_ Capell.

[Seeming to faint. Rowe.

[4059] _Look ... us?_] S. Walker would end the lines _lady ... claim ... spoken ... hole, ... us?_

[4060] [gather about her. Capell.

[4061] [Aside ...] Staunton. om. Ff.

[4062] _What ... away_] As in Dyce. Three lines, ending _here, ... hole, ... away,_ in Ff. Malone ends the lines at _spoken ... hole ...tears._ Knight ends them at _here ... hole ... tears._

[4063] _Hid in_] _hid in_ F1. _hid within_ F2 F3 F4. _hidden in_ Jackson conj.

[4064] _Upon_] _on_ Pope, reading _Are ... on_ as one line.

_Look_] _Look there_ Hanmer.

[Lady ...] Rowe. om. Ff.

[4065] Macd.] Macb. Rowe.

_And_] om. Pope.

[4066] [Exeunt all but ...] Hanmer. Exeunt. Ff.

[4067] _What ... them_:] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[4068] _Which ... England._] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[4069] _To ... bloody._] As in Rowe. Four lines in Ff, ending _I ... safer: ... smiles; ... bloody._

[4070] _near_] _near'_ Delius.

[4071] _horse_] F1. _house_ F2 F3 F4.

[4072] SCENE IV.] SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE VI. Pope.

Outside ...] The outside of Macbeth's Castle. Theobald.

[4073] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[4074] _Ah_] Rowe. _Ha_ Ff.

[4075] _Threaten_] Rowe. _Threatens_ Ff.

_his_] _this_ Theobald.

_stage_] _strage_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn).

[4076] _travelling_] F3 F4. _travailing_ F1 F2.

[4077] _should_] _shall_ F2.

[4078] _And ... certain_] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

_horses_] _horse_ S. Walker conj.

[4079] _their_] _the_ Theobald.

[4080] _flung_] F3 F4. _flong_ F1 F2.

[4081] _would make War_] Divided as in Steevens (1793). The first line ends _would_ in Ff.

[4082] _mankind_] _man_ Pope.

_eat_] _ate_ Keightley.

[4083] _They ... Macduff._] As in Pope. Three lines, ending _so: ... upon't ... Macduffe,_ in Ff.

[4084] Enter Macduff.] As in Ff. After the line in Johnson.

[4085] _were_] _are_ Theobald (ed. 1).

_suborn'd_] Rowe. _subborned_ F1 F2. _suborned_ F3 F4.

[4086] _wilt_] Warburton. _will_ Ff.

_ravin up_] Theobald, _raven up_ F1. _raven upon_ F2 F3 F4.

[4087] _Thine_] _Its_ Hanmer.

_life's_] Pope. _lives_ Ff.

_Then 'tis_] _Why then it is_ Hanmer.

[4088] _gone_] _gons_ F2.

[4089] _Colme-kill_] _Colmeshill_ Rowe. _Colmes-kill_ Johnson.

[4090] _Well, may_] Theobald. _Well may_ Ff.

[4091] _you_] F1. _you sir_ F2. _you, sir_ F3 F4.

[4092] [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.