PORTER:
1. Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter
2.
of hell-gate he should have old turning the key.{Knock within}
3. Knock, knock, knock. Who's there, i' th' name of
4.
Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on
5. th'
expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins
6. enough
about you; here you'll sweat for 't.{Knock within}
7.
Knock, knock. Who's there, in th' other devil's name?
8.
Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both
9.
the scales against either scale, who committed treason
10.
enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to
11.
heaven. O, come in, equivocator.{Knock within}
12.
Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? 'Faith, here's an
13.
English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French
14.
hose. Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.{Knock
within}
15. Knock, knock. Never at quiet. What are
you? But this
16. place is too cold for hell. I'll
devil-porter it no further.
17. I had thought to have let in
some of all professions
18. that go the primrose way to th'
everlasting bonfire.{Knock within}
19. Anon,
anon!{He opens the gate}
20. I pray you remember the
porter.{Enter Macduff and Lennox}
MACDUFF:
21.
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed
22. That you
do lie so late?
PORTER:
23. Faith, sir, we were
carousing till the second cock,
24. and drink, sir, is a great
provoker of three things.
MACDUFF:
25. What three
things does drink especially
26. provoke?
PORTER:
27. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
28.
Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes: it provokes
29.
the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore
30.
much drink may be said to be an equivocator with
31.
lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on
32.
and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens
33.
him, makes him stand to and not stand to; in
34.
conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him
35.
the lie, leaves him.
MACDUFF:
36. I believe
drink gave thee the lie last night.
PORTER:
37.
That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me; but I
38.
requited him for his lie, and, I think, being too strong
39.
for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I
40.
made a shift to cast him.
MACDUFF:
41A. Is thy
master stirring?{Enter Macbeth}
42. Our knocking
has awaked him: here he comes.{ [Exit Porter] }
LENNOX:
{(to Macbeth)}
43B. Good morrow, noble sir.
MACBETH:
43B. Good morrow, both.
MACDUFF:
44B. Is the King stirring, worthy thane?
MACBETH:
44B. Not yet.
MACDUFF:
45. He did command me to call timely on him.
46B. I
have almost slipped the hour.
MACBETH:
46B.
I'll bring you to him.
MACDUFF:
47. I know this
is a joyful trouble to you,
48. But yet 'tis one.
MACBETH:
49. The labour we delight in physics
pain.
50B. This is the door.
MACDUFF:
50B.
I'll make so bold to call,
51. For 'tis my limited
service.{Exit Macduff}
LENNOX:
52B. Goes the
King hence today?
MACBETH:
52B. He does; he
did appoint so.
LENNOX:
53. The night has been
unruly. Where we lay
54. Our chimneys were blown down, and, as
they say,
55. Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of
death,
56. And prophesying with accents terrible
57.
Of dire combustion and confused events
58. New-hatched to
th' woeful time. The obscure bird
59. Clamoured the livelong
night. Some say the earth
60B. Was feverous and did shake.
MACBETH:
60B. 'Twas a rough night.
LENNOX:
61. My young remembrance cannot parallel
62B. A fellow to it.{Enter Macduff}
MACDUFF:
62B. O horror, horror, horror!
63. Tongue nor heart
cannot conceive nor name thee.
MACBETH:
64A.
What's the matter?
MACDUFF:
65. Confusion now
hath made his masterpiece.
66. Most sacrilegious murder hath
broke ope
67. The Lord's anointed temple and stole thence
68. The life o' th' building.
MACBETH:
69A. What is 't you say the life?
LENNOX:
70A. Mean you his majesty?
MACDUFF:
71.
Approach the chamber and destroy your sight
72. With a new
Gorgon. Do not bid me speak.
73B. See, and then speak
yourselves.{Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox}Awake, awake!
74. Ring the alarum bell. Murder and treason!
75.
Banquo and Donalbain, Malcolm, awake!
76. Shake off this
downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
77. And look on death
itself. Up, up, and see
78. The great doom's image. Malcolm,
Banquo,
79. As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites
80B. To countenance this horror.{Bell rings. Enter Lady
Macbeth}
LADY:
80B. What's the business,
81. That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
82B.
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak.
MACDUFF:
82B. O gentle lady,
83. 'Tis not for you to hear
what I can speak.
84. The repetition in a woman's ear
85B. Would murder as it fell.{Enter Banquo}O Banquo,
Banquo,
86B. Our royal master's murdered!
LADY:
86B. Woe, alas
87B. What, in our house?
BANQUO:
87B. Too cruel anywhere.
88. Dear
Duff, I prithee contradict thyself,
89. And say it is not
so.{Enter Macbeth, Lennox, [and Ross] }
MACBETH:
90. Had I but died an hour before
this chance
91. I had lived a blessèd time, for from
this instant
92. There's nothing serious in mortality.
93. All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead.
94.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
95. Is left
this vault to brag of.{Enter Malcolm and Donalbain}
DONALBAIN:
96A. What is amiss?
MACBETH:
97A. You are, and do not know 't.
98. The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
99. Is stopped, the very source of it is stopped.
MACDUFF:
100B. Your royal father's murdered.
MALCOLM:
100B. O, by whom?
LENNOX:
101. Those of his chamber, as it seemed, had done 't.
102. Their hands and faces were all badged with blood,
103. So were their daggers, which, unwiped, we found
104. Upon their pillows. They stared and were distracted.
105. No man's life was to be trusted with them.
MACBETH:
106. O, yet I do repent me of my
fury
107B. That I did kill them.
MACDUFF:
107B. Wherefore did you so?
MACBETH:
108. Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate and furious,
109. Loyal and neutral in a moment? No man.
110.
Th' expedition of my violent love
111. Outran the pauser,
reason. Here lay Duncan,
112. His silver skin laced with his
golden blood,
113. And his gashed stabs looked like a breach
in nature
114. For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the
murderers,
115. Steeped in the colours of their trade, their
daggers
116. Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain,
117. That had a heart to love, and in that heart
118B.
Courage to make 's love known?
LADY:
118B. Help
me hence, ho!
MACDUFF:
119B. Look to the lady.
MALCOLM: {(aside to Donalbain)}
119B. Why do
we hold our tongues,
120. That most may claim this argument
for ours?
DONALBAIN: {(aside to Malcolm)}
121.
What should be spoken here, where our fate,
122. Hid in an
auger-hole, may rush and seize us?
123B. Let's away. Our tears
are not yet brewed.
MALCOLM: {(aside to
Donalbain)}
123B. Nor our strong sorrow
124B.
Upon the foot of motion.
BANQUO:
124B. Look to
the lady;{Exit Lady Macbeth, attended}
125. And
when we have our naked frailties hid,
126. That suffer in
exposure, let us meet
127. And question this most bloody piece
of work,
128. To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.
129. In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
130.
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
131B. Of
treasonous malice.
MACDUFF:
131B. And so do I.
ALL:
131B. So all.
MACBETH:
132. Let's briefly put on manly readiness,
133B.
And meet i' th' hall together.
ALL:
133B. Well
contented.{Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain}
MALCOLM:
134. What will you do? Let's not consort
with them.
135. To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
136. Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.
DONALBAIN:
137. To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune
138. Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are
139.
There's daggers in men's smiles. The nea'er in blood,
140B.
The nearer bloody.
MALCOLM:
140B. This murderous
shaft that's shot
141. Hath not yet lighted, and our safest
way
142. Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse,
143.
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
144. But shift
away. There's warrant in that theft
145. Which steals itself
when there's no mercy left.{Exeunt}