Shakespere's Macbeth Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH1. ACT FIRST. Scene I. A desert place. TJmnder and lightning. Enter three Witches. First Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Sec. Witch. When the hurlybnrly's done, When the battle's lost and won. Third Witch. That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch. Where the place? Sec. Witch. Upon the heath. Third Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch. I come, Graymalkin! Sec. Witch. Paddock calls. 10 TJiird Witch. Anon. All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hqver through the fog and filthy air. [Exeunt. The text of the present edition is taken by permission from the Globe. Scene II. A camp near Forres. Alarum ivitliin. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Don- albain, Lennox, with Attendants, meeting a Needing Sergeant. Dun. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Mai. This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. Ser. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Mac- donwald? Worthy to be a rebel, for to that 10 The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him?from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth?well he deserves that name- Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage 2 Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'cl him from the nave to the ch...Read More