{"id":10882,"date":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","slug":"MacbethAtext3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/MacbethAtext3\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 1, page 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/content-restricted\/edmereading\/macbeth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Table of Contents<\/a><input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=10883&#39;\" value=\"  Next Page  \"><\/p>\n<p><b>ACT 1, SCENE 4<\/b><br \/>Setting: <i>Forres. The palace.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants.<\/p>\n<table>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Those in commission yet return&#39;d?<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MALCOLM <\/td>\n<td>My liege,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>They are not yet come back. But I have spoke<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>With one that saw him die: who did report<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>That very frankly he confess&#39;d his treasons,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Implored your highness&#39; pardon and set forth<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>A deep repentance: nothing in his life<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Became him like the leaving it; he died<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>As one that had been studied in his death<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>To throw away the dearest thing he owed,<\/td>\n<td> 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>As &#39;twere a careless trifle.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>There&#39;s no art<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>To find the mind&#39;s construction in the face:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>He was a gentleman on whom I built<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>An absolute trust.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>O worthiest cousin!<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The sin of my ingratitude even now<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Was heavy on me: thou art so far before<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>That swiftest wing of recompense is slow<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>That the proportion both of thanks and payment<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Might have been mine! Only I have left to say,<\/td>\n<td> 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>More is thy due than more than all can pay.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MACBETH <\/td>\n<td>The service and the loyalty I owe,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>In doing it, pays itself. Your highness&#39; part<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Is to receive our duties; and our duties<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Are to your throne and state children and servants, <\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Which do but what they should, by doing every thing<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Safe toward your love and honour.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>Welcome hither:<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>I have begun to plant thee, and will labour<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>That hast no less deserved, nor must be known<\/td>\n<td> 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>No less to have done so, let me enfold thee<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>And hold thee to my heart.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BANQUO <\/td>\n<td>There if I grow,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The harvest is your own.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>My plenteous joys,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>And you whose places are the nearest, know<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>We will establish our estate upon<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Not unaccompanied invest him only,<\/td>\n<td> 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>And bind us further to you.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MACBETH <\/td>\n<td>The rest is labour, which is not used for you:<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>I&#39;ll be myself the harbinger and make joyful<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The hearing of my wife with your approach;<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>So humbly take my leave.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>My worthy Cawdor!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MACBETH <\/td>\n<td>Aside.<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>On which I must fall down, or else o&#39;erleap,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;<\/td>\n<td> 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Let not light see my black and deep desires:<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Exit<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DUNCAN <\/td>\n<td>True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>And in his commendations I am fed;<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>It is a banquet to me. Let&#39;s after him,<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>It is a peerless kinsman.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<td>[Flourish. 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