PERSONS REPRESENTED.

DUNCAN, King of Scotland.
Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6.

MALCOLM, son to Duncan.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6. Act II. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 3. Act V. sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7.

DONALBAIN, Son to Duncan.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6. Act II. sc. 3.

MACBETH, general of the King's army.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 6. Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3.

MACDUFF, a nobleman of Scotland.
Act IV. sc. 3.
Appears, Act I. sc. 6. Act II. sc. 3; sc. 4.
sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act V. sc. 4;

LENOX, a nobleman of Scotland. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 4; Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6. Act II. sc. 3. sc. 6; Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7.

Appears, Act I. sc.
SC. 4.

ROSSE, a nobleman of Scotland.
2; sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 6.
Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4.

Act II. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1;
Act V. sc. 7.

MENTETH, a nobleman of Scotland.
Appears, Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7.
ANGUS, a nobleman of Scotland.
Appears, Act I. sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 6.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7.

CATHNESS, a nobleman of Scotland.
Appears, Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7.

FLEANCE, son to Banquo.

Appears, Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 3.

SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces.
Appears, Act V. sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Young SIWARD, son to the Earl of Northumberland.
Appears, Act V. sc. 4; sc. 7.

SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth
Appears, Act V. sc. 3; sc. 5.
Son to Macduff.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 2.

An English Doctor.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 3.

A Scotch Doctor.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3.
A Soldier.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.
A Porter.

Appears, Act II. sc. 3.

An old Man.

Appears, Act II. sc. 4.
LADY MACBETH.

Appears, Act I. sc. 5; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 1;

sc. 2; sc. 4.

Act V. sc. 1.

LADY MACDUff.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 2.

Gentlewoman, attending on Lady Macbeth.

Appears, Act V. sc. 1.

HECATE.

Appears, Act III. sc. 5.

Three Witches.

Appear, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 5. Act IV. sc. 1.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. The Ghost of Banquo, and other Apparitions.

SCENE,

-IN THE END OF ACT IV. IN ENGLAND; THROUGH THE REST OF
THE PLAY IN SCOTLAND.

'The Tragedie of Macbeth' was first published in the folio collection of 1623. Our text is, with very few exceptions, a restoration of the text of the original folio.

MACBETH.

ACT I.

SCENE I.--An open Place. Thunder and Lightniny.

Enter three Witches. 1 WITCH. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain ?

2 WITCH. When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won:

3 WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun.
I WITCH. Where the place?
2 WITCH.

Upon the heath:
3 WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth.
1 WITCH. I come, Graymalkin!

ALL Paddock calls: Apon.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, LENOS, with

Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.
Dun. What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.

MAL. 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,

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As thou didst leave it.
SOLD.

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 kernes and gallowglasses is supplied;
And fortune, on his damned quarry 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 valour's minion, carv'd out his passage,
Till he fac'd the slave;
Which 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.

Dun. O, valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

SOLD. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break;
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had, with valour arm’d,
Compell’d these skipping kerpes to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms, and new supplies of men,
Began a fresh assault.

Dun. Dismay'd not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo !

SOLD. Yes: As sparrows, eagles; or the hare, the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks;
So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell:
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

Dun. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both:-Go, get him surgeons.

[Exit Soldier, attended.