{"id":10906,"date":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","slug":"MacbethBtext2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/MacbethBtext2\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 2, page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT 2, SCENE 3<\/b>
Setting: The same.<\/i><\/p>\n

Knocking within. Enter a Porter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Porter <\/td>\nHere's a knocking indeed! <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n If a man were porter of hell–gate, he should have old turning the key.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n[Knocking within.] Knock, knock, knock! <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho's there, i' the name of Beelzebub? <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere's a farmer, that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n come in time; have napkins enow about you; here you'll sweat for't.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n[Knocking within.] Knock, knock! Who's there, <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n in th'other devil's name? 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: <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, come in, equivocator.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n[Knocking within.] Knock, knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nhere's an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose. [Knocking within.]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKnock, knock; never at quiet! What are you? <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll devil–porter it no further:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI had thought to have let in some of all professions that go<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut this place is too cold for hell. [Knocking within.] <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter. [Opens the gate.]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter MACDUFF and LENNOX.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nWas it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat you do lie so late?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Porter <\/td>\nFaith sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nWhat three things does drink especially provoke?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Porter <\/td>\nMarry, sir, nose–painting, sleep, and<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nurine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nit provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nI believe drink gave thee the lie last night.<\/td>\n 42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Porter <\/td>\nThat it did, sir, i' the very throat on<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nme: but I requited him for his lie; and, I<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthink, being too strong for him, though he took<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nup my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nhim.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nIs thy master stirring?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter MACBETH.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur knocking has awaked him; here he comes.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nGood morrow, noble sir.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nGood morrow, both.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nIs the king stirring, worthy thane?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nNot yet.<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nHe did command me to call timely on him:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have almost slipp'd the hour.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nI'll bring you to him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nI know this is a joyful trouble to you;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut yet 'tis one.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nThe labour we delight in physics pain.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis is the door.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nI'll make so bold to call,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor 'tis my limited service.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nGoes the king hence to–day?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nHe does: he did appoint so.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nThe night has been unruly: where we lay,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd prophesying with accents terrible<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf dire combustion and confused events<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNew hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nClamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWas feverous and did shake.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nTwas a rough night.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nMy young remembrance cannot parallel<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA fellow to it.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRe–enter MACDUFF.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nO horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCannot conceive nor name thee!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat's the matter.<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nConfusion now hath made his masterpiece!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMost sacrilegious murder hath broke ope<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe life o' the building!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nWhat is 't you say? the life?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nMean you his majesty?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nApproach the chamber, and destroy your sight<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee, and then speak yourselves.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExeunt MACBETH and LENNOX<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAwake, awake!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRing the alarum–bell. Murder and treason!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBanquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd look on death itself! up, up, and see<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo countenance this horror! Ring the bell.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBell rings.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter LADY MACBETH.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWhat's the business,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat such a hideous trumpet calls to parley<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe sleepers of the house? speak, speak!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nO gentle lady,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTis not for you to hear what I can speak:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe repetition, in a woman's ear,<\/td>\n 91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould murder as it fell.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter BANQUO.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO Banquo, Banquo,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur royal master 's murder'd!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWoe, alas!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat, in our house?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nToo cruel any where.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd say it is not so.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRe–enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nHad I but died an hour before this chance,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere 's nothing serious in mortality:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll is but toys: renown and grace is dead;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees<\/td>\n 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs left this vault to brag of.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DONALBAIN <\/td>\nWhat is amiss?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nYou are, and do not know't:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe spring, the head, the fountain of your blood<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nYour royal father 's murder'd.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALCOLM <\/td>\nO, by whom?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LENNOX <\/td>\nThose of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir hands and faces were an badged with blood;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo were their daggers, which unwiped we found<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon their pillows:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey stared, and were distracted; no man's life<\/td>\n 110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWas to be trusted with them.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nO, yet I do repent me of my fury,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I did kill them.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nWherefore did you so?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nWho can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLoyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe expedition my violent love<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOutrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHis silver skin laced with his golden blood;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,<\/td>\n 120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSteep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUnmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat had a heart to love, and in that heart<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCourage to make 's love known?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nHelp me hence, ho!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nLook to the lady.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALCOLM <\/td>\nAside to DONALBAIN. Why do we hold our tongues,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat most may claim this argument for ours?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DONALBAIN <\/td>\nAside to MALCOLM. What should be spoken here,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nwhere our fate,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHid in an auger–hole, may rush, and seize us?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet 's away;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur tears are not yet brew'd.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALCOLM <\/td>\nAside to DONALBAIN. Nor our strong sorrow<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon the foot of motion.<\/td>\n 130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nLook to the lady:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLADY MACBETH is carried out.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd when we have our naked frailties hid,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat suffer in exposure, let us meet,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd question this most bloody piece of work,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn the great hand of God I stand; and thence<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAgainst the undivulged pretence I fight<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf treasonous malice.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACDUFF <\/td>\nAnd so do I.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ALL <\/td>\nSo all.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nLet's briefly put on manly readiness,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd meet i' the hall together.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ALL <\/td>\nWell contented.<\/td>\n 140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALCOLM <\/td>\nWhat will you do?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet's not consort with them:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo show an unfelt sorrow is an office<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich the false man does easy. I'll to England.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DONALBAIN <\/td>\nTo Ireland, I; our separated fortune<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall keep us both the safer: where we are,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe nearer bloody.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALCOLM <\/td>\nThis murderous shaft that's shot<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHath not yet lighted, and our safest way<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd let us not be dainty of leave–taking,<\/td>\n 150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut shift away: there's warrant in that theft<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich steals itself, when there's no mercy left.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExeunt.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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