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MACBETH
by William Shakespeare

Persons Represented
DUNCAN, King of Scotland. MALCOLM, his Son. DONALBAIN,
his Son. MACBETH, General in the King's Army. BANQUO, General
in the King's Army. MACDUFF, Nobleman of Scotland. LENNOX,
Nobleman of Scotland. ROSS, Nobleman of Scotland. MENTEITH,
Nobleman of Scotland. ANGUS, Nobleman of Scotland. CAITHNESS,
Nobleman of Scotland. FLEANCE, Son to Banquo. SIWARD, Earl of
Northumberland, General of the English Forces. YOUNG SIWARD,
his Son. SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth. BOY, Son to
Macduff. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An
Old Man.

LADY MACBETH. LADY MACDUFF. Gentlewoman attending on
Lady Macbeth. HECATE,and three Witches.
Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and
Messengers.
The Ghost of Banquo and several other Apparitions.
SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of
the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth's Castle.

ACT I.
SCENE I. An open Place. Thunder and Lightning.
[Enter three Witches.]
FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning,
or in rain?
SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost
and won.
THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH. Where the place?
SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath.
THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth.
FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin!
ALL. Paddock calls:--anon:-- Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover
through the fog and filthy air.
[Witches vanish.]

SCENE II. A Camp near Forres.
[Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox,
with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.]
DUNCAN. What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his
plight, of the revolt The newest state.
MALCOLM. 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.
SOLDIER. Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers that do cling
together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald,-- Worthy to
be a rebel,--for to that The multiplying villainies 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
smok'd with bloody execution, Like valor's minion, Carv'd out his
passag tTill he fac'd the slave; And ne'er shook hands, nor bade
farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And
fix'd his head upon our battlements.
DUNCAN. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
SOLDIER. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking