7
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air.”
11
“As cannons overcharged with double cracks,
so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.
13
“Assisted by that most disloyal traitor;
The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, …“
14
“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest.
Go, pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.”
15
“A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come!“
17
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
“You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.”
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!“
19
“So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!“
23
“Glamis and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind. Thanks for your pains.”
“Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.”
25
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.”
“With one that saw him die, who did report that very frankly he confessed his treasons,
implored your Highness’ pardon and set forth a deep repentance.”
29
“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”
31
“Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition,
but without the illness should attend it.”
“Thou’d’st have, great Glamis, that which cries “Thus thou must do”,
if thou have it, and that which rather thou dost fear to do, than wishest should be undone.”
33
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks
the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.”
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty”
35
“Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
39
“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, not bear the knife myself.”
“Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek,
hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels,
trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;“
41
“We will proceed no further in this business.”
“Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?“
43
“When you durst do it, then you were a man;
and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man.”
“Bring forth men-children only,
for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.”
45
“I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”
51
“I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters.
To you they have showed some truth.”
53
“Or art though but a dagger of the mind,
a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
“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.”
55
“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?“
57
“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more.
Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern’st good-night.”
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done ‘t.”
59
“Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
you do unbend your noble strength to think so brainsickly of things.”
“I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done.”
“Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“A little water clears us of this deed.”
61
“Faith, here’s an equivocator that could swear
in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough
for God’s sake yet could not equivocate to heaven.”
“I pray you, remember the porter.”
65
“Lamenting heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death, …”
“The obscure bird clamored the livelong night.
Some say the Earth was feverous and did shake.”
“‘Twas a rough night.”
“O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!“
67
“O gentle lady, ‘tis not for you to hear what I can speak.
The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell.”
69
“O, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them.”
“Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate, and furious, loyal, and neutral, in a moment?“
71
“Let us meet and question this most bloody piece of work to know it further.”
“Let’s briefly put on manly readiness and meet i’ th’ hall together.”
73
“Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody.”
“‘Tis unnatural, even like the deed that’s done.
On Tuesday last a falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.”
75
“Is ‘t known who did this more than bloody deed?”
“Those that Macbeth hath slain.”
“Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons, are stol’n away and fled,
which puts upon them suspicion of the deed.”
“He is already named and gone to Scone to be invested.”
81
“Thou has it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised,
and I fear though played’st most foully for ‘t.”
83
“We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England and in Ireland,
not confessing their cruel parricide, filling their hearers with strange invention.”
“Fail not our feast.”
“I wish your horses swift and sure of foot, and so I do commend you to their backs.”
85
“Our fears in Banquo stick deep,
and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared.”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip…”
“…mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man,
to make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings.”
87
“Known that it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortune,
which you thought had been our innocent self.”
“The valued file distinguishes the swift,
the slow, the subtle, the housekeeper, the hunter, …“
89
“I am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world hath so incensed
that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.”
“Both of you know Banquo was your enemy. So is he mine,
and in such bloody distance that every minute of
his being thrusts against my near’st of life.”
91
“Your spirits shine through you.”
“Fleance, his son, that keeps him company,
whose absence is no less material to me than is his father’s,
must embrace the fate of that dark hour.”
93
“We have scorched the snake, now killed it.”
“Come on, gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks.
Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.”
95
“Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;”
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Thou know’st that Banquo and his Fleance lives.”
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed.”
97
“O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge—O slave!”
“We have lost best half of our affair.”
99
“Ourself will mingle with society and play the humble host.”
“There’s blood upon thy face.”
101
”…—But Banquo’s safe?”
“There the grown serpent lines. … No teeth for th’ present.”
“The table’s full.”
103
“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me.”
“Gentlemen, rise. His Highness is not well.”
“This is the very painting of your fear.
This is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan.”
105
“Lo, how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.”
“What, quite unmanned in folly?”
“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.”
“I drink to th’ general joy o’ th’ whole table and
to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss. Would he were here!”
“Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee.”
107
“Think of this, good peers, but as a thing of custom.”
“Why so, being gone, I am a man again.”
“You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting with most admired disorder.”
“Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.”
109
“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”
“Augurs and understood relations have by maggot pies and
choughs and rooks brought forth the secret’st man of blood.”
113
“The gracious Duncan was pitied of Macbeth; marry, he was dead.
And the right valiant Banquo walked too late, whom you may say,
if ‘t please you, Fleance killed, For Fleance fled.”
“His presence at the tyrant’s feast, I hear Macduff lives in disgrace.”
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
123
“I conjure you by that which you profess (Howe’er you come to know it), answer me.”
125
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!
Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough.”
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”
127
“Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes,
who frets, or where conspirers are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.”
129
“Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs.”
131
“Infected be the air whereon they ride, and damned all those that trust them!“
133
“He had none. His flight was madness.
When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”
135
“Fathered he is, and yet he’s fatherless.”
“Yes, he is dead. How wilt thou do for a father?”
“Was my father a traitor, mother? … Ay that he was.”
137
“Now God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father?”
“If he were dead, you’d weep for him. If you would not,
it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.”
“Why then, alas, do I put up that womanly defense to say I have done no harm?“
139
“Thou liest, thou shag-eared villain!”
“He has killed me, mother. Run away, I pray you.”
147
“Macduff, this noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my soul
wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts to thy good truth and honor.”
“Old Siward with ten thousand warlike men,
already at a point, was setting forth.”
149
“Such welcome and unwelcome things at once ‘tis hard to reconcile.”
“With this strange virtue, he hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,
and sundry blessings hang about his throne that speak him full of grace.”
151
“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself.”
“How does my wife? Why, well. And all my children? Well too.”
153
“Which was to my belief witnessed the rather for that I saw the tyrant’s power afoot.”
“An older and a better soldier none that Christendom gives out.”
“Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes savagely slaughtered.”
155
“Wife, children, servants, all that could be found.”
“Be comforted. Let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief.”
“I shall do so, But I must also feel it as a man.”
157
“Macbeth is ripe for shaking, and the powers above put on their instruments.”
161
“Since his Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from the bed,
throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper,
fold it, write upon ‘t, read it, afterward seal it, and again return to bed;“
163
“Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two.
Why then, ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky.
Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard?”
“The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?
What, will these hands ne’er be clean?“
165
“This disease is beyond my practice.
Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep,
who have died holily in their beds.”
“Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
Infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”
“The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,
his uncle Siward, and the good Macduff”
167
“Near Birnam Wood shall we well meet them. That way are they coming.”
“Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love.”
169
“The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.”
“What soldiers, patch? Death of thy soul!
Those linen cheeks of thine are counselors to fear.”
171
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armor.”
173
“Throw physic to the dogs. I’ll none of it.—
Come, put mine armor on. Give me my staff.”
“Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand that chambers will be safe.”
175
“We learn no other but the confident tyrant keeps still in Dunsinane
and will endure our setting down before ‘t.”
177
“Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
Here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up.”
“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace
from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time,
and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
“Out, out, brief candle!“
179
“As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I looked toward Birnam, and the anon methought the Wood began to move.”
181
“Ring the alarum bell!—Blow wind, come wrack,
At least we’ll die with harness on our back.”
183
“The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear.”
“But swords I smile at, weapons laugh of scorn,
Brandished by man that’s of a woman born.”
“Either thou, Macbeth, or else my sword with an unbattered edge
I shall sheathe again undeeded.”
185
“Why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword?”
“My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.”
“Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou still hast served
tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.”
187
“And be these juggling fiends no more believed
that palter with us in a double sense,
that keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope.”
189
“Why then, God’s soldier be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death;”
“Hail, King of Scotland!”