With twenty trenched gashes on his head;

le host.

er state; but, in best welcome.

The least a death to nature.
Macb.

Thanks for that:

nce it for me, sir, to i

There the grown serpent lies; the worm, that's fled,

Hath nature that in time will

venom breed,

No teeth for the present.

Get thee gone; to

morrow

We'll hear, ourselves again.
Lady M.

[Exit Murderer.

My royal lord,

the feast is sold,

they are welcome.

urderer, to the door.

unter thee with their hers

re I'll sit i'the midst:

we'll drink a measure

's blood upon thy face.

n.

vithout, than he within

tis cut; that I did fir

o'the cut-throats: Tet

if thou didst it,

royal sir,

in: I had else been

the rock; ng air: confin'd, bound

quo's safe? n a ditch he

You do not give the cheer:
That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making,
'Tis given with welcome: To feed, were best at

home;

From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony,
Meeting were bare without it.
Macb.

Sweet remembrancer!

Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Len.

May it please your highness sit? [The Ghost of BANQUO rises, and sits in MACBETH'S place.

Macb. Here had we now our country's honour

roof'd,

Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present;
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness,
Than pity for mischance!

Lays blame upon his promise. Please it your high

the feast is sold, &c.] The meaning is, -That which is not given cheerfully, cannot be called a gift, it is something that must be paid for.

Len.

Here, my lord. What

moves your highness?

Macb. Which of you have done this?
Lords.

What, my go

Macb. Thou canst not say, I did it: nev

Thy gory locks at me.

Rosse. Gentlemen, rise; his highness is r Lady M. Sit, worthy friends:-my lord

thus,

And hath been from his youth: 'pray you

seat;

The fit is momentary; upon a thought*
He will again be well; If much you note hin
You shall offend him, and extend his passion
Feed, and regard him not.-Are you a man?
Macb. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look o
Which might appal the devil.

Lady M.

O proper stuff

This is the very painting of your fear:
This is the air-drawn dagger, which, you said,
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws, and star
(Impostors to true fear,) would well becomes
A woman's story, at a winter's fire,

Authoriz'd by her grandam. Shame itself!
Why do you make such faces? When all's don
You look but on a stool.

Macb. Pr'ythee, see there! behold! look! how say you?

Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send

upon a thought-] i. e. as speedily as thought can

- O, these flaws, and starts,

(Impostors to true fear,) would well become, &c.] Flaws sudden gusts. Impostors to truc fear, mean impostors when co pared with true fear. Such is the force of the preposition to in th place.

:

Those that we bury, back, our monuments

Shall be the maws of kites.

*Lady M.

[Ghost disappears.

What! quite unmann'd in folly?

Macb. If I stand here, I saw him.
Lady M.

Fye, for shame!

Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now, i'the olden
time,

Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,

That, when the brains were out, the man would

die,

And there an end: but now, they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,

And push us from our stools: This is more strange
Than such a murder is.

Lady M.

My worthy lord,

Your noble friends do lack you.
Macb.

I do forget :

Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends;
I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing

To those that know me.

all;

Then I'll sit down:
full:

:

Come, love and health to

Give me some wine, fill

I drink to the general joy of the whole table,

Ghost rises.

And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;
Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,'

* Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal;) The gentle weal, is, the peaceable community, the state made quiet and safe by human statutes; or rather that state of innocence which did not require the aid of human laws to render it quiet and secure.

7

- to all, and him, we thirst, We thirst, perhaps, means

we desire to drink.

VOL. IV.

EE

And all to all.s
Lords.

Our duties, and the pledg

Macb. Avaunt! and quit my sight! earth hide thee!

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is co Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with !

Lady M. Think of this, goo But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.

Macb. What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble: Or, be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword;
If trembling I inhibit thee, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow
[Ghost disap

Unreal mockery, hence!-Why, so;-being
I am a man again.-Pray you, sit still.
Lady M. You have displac'd the mirth, brok

good meeting,

With most admir'd disorder.

Macb.

Can such things

And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?1 You make me stra

Even to the disposition that I owe,

2

* And all to all.] i. e. all good wishes to all; such as he named above, love, health, and joy.

9 If trembling I inhibit -] i. e. forbid.

* Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer's cloud,

Without our special wonder?] The meaning is, can su wonders as these pass over us without wonder, as a casual sumn cloud passes over us?

오 - You make me strange

Even to the disposition that I owe,] Mr. Steevens explai

МАСВЕТΗ.

When now I think you can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine are blanch'd with fear.

Rosse.

373

What sights, my lord? Lady M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;

Question enrages him: at once, good night:-
Stand not upon the order of your going,

Len.

Think of this, good pe

But go at once.

Good night, and better health

Attend his majesty!

Lady M.

A kind good night to all!

are, I dare: rugged Russian bear, or the Hyrcan tiger, t, and my firm nerves

, be alive again, t with thy sword; e, protest me ce, horrible shadow!

[Ghost disappe

Why, so;-being gat
1, sit still.
'd the mirth, broke the

[Exeunt Lords and Attendants.

Macb. It will have blood; they say, blood will

have blood:

Stones have been known to move, and trees to
speak;

Augurs, and understood relations, have
By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought

forth

The secret'st man of blood.-What is the night? Lady M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which.

Macb. How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his

these words thus:-You prove to me that I am a stranger even to my own disposition, when I perceive that the very object which steals the colour from my cheek, permits it to remain in yours. In other words, -You prove to me how false an opinion I have hitherto maintained of my own courage, when yours, on the trial, is found to exceed it.