_Enter_ MACBETH.[4636]
_Macb._ Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes[4637]
Do better upon them.
_Enter_ MACDUFF.[4638]
_Macd._ Turn, hell-hound, turn!
_Macb._ Of all men else I have avoided thee:
But get thee back; my soul is too much charged 5
With blood of thine already.
_Macd._ I have no words:[4639]
My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out! [_They fight._[4640]
_Macb._ Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed: 10
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.
_Macd._ Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb 15
Untimely ripp'd.
_Macb._ Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense; 20
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I 'll not fight with thee.[4641]
_Macd._ Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, 25
Painted upon a pole, and underwrit,[4642]
'Here may you see the tyrant.'[4643]
_Macb._ I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,[4644] 30
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,[4645]
Yet I will try the last: before my body
I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!'[4646]
[_Exeunt, fighting. Alarums._[4647]
_Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours_, MALCOLM, _old_
SIWARD, ROSS, _the other_ Thanes, _and_ Soldiers.[4648]
_Mal._ I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.[4649] 35
_Siw._ Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,
So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
_Mal._ Macduff is missing, and your noble son.
_Ross._ Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:
He only lived but till he was a man; 40
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd[4650]
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
_Siw._ Then he is dead?[4651]
_Ross._ Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow[4652]
Must not be measured by his worth, for then 45
It hath no end.
_Siw._ Had he his hurts before?
_Ross._ Ay, on the front.
_Siw._ Why then, God's soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And so his knell is knoll'd.
_Mal._ He's worth more sorrow, 50
And that I'll spend for him.
_Siw._ He's worth no more:
They say he parted well and paid his score:
And so God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.[4653]
_Re-enter_ MACDUFF, _with_ MACBETH'S _head_.[4654]
_Macd._ Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands[4655]
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free: 55
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,[4656]
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!
_All._ Hail, King of Scotland![4657] [_Flourish._
_Mal._ We shall not spend a large expense of time[4658] 60
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,[4659]
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time, 65
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands[4660] 70
Took off her life; this, and what needful else[4661]
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace[4662]
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.[4663] 75
[_Flourish. Exeunt._
FOOTNOTES:
[4506] _two_] _too_ F1.
[4507] _report_] _repeat_ Warburton conj.
[4508] Lady Macbeth,] Rowe. Lady, Ff. Queen, Staunton.
[4509] _sense is_] Rowe. _sense are_ Ff. _sense' are_ Dyce (S. Walker
conj.).
[4510] [taking out his Tables. Capell.
_satisfy_] _fortifie_ Warburton.
[4511] _murky._] _murky!_ Steevens. See note (IX).
[4512] _afeard_] _afraid_ Rowe.
[4513] _fear who ... account?_] Theobald. _feare? who ... accompt_:
F1F2. _fear? who ... account_: F3F4. _fear who ... account_--Rowe
(ed. 2).
[4514] _him?_] Rowe. _him._ Ff.
[4515] [Sings. Nicholson conj.
[4516] _this_] F1. om. F2F3F4.
[4517] _Go ... not._] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Ff.
[4518] _of the blood_] F1F2. _of bloud_ F3F4.
[4519] _well,--_] _well--_ Rowe. _well._ Ff.
[4520] _which ... who_] _who ... to_ A. Hunter.
[4521] _Banquo's_] _Duncan's_ Hunter conj.
[4522] _on's_] _of his_ Pope. _of's_ Capell.
[4523] [Exit.] Exit Lady. Ff.
[4524] _God, God_] _Good God_ Pope.
[4525] _she has_] _she 'as_ Pope.
[4526] [Exeunt.] Exeunt severally. Capell.
[4527] The country ...] Capell. A Field with a Wood at Distance. Rowe.
[4528] Caithness,] Dyce. Cathnes. Ff.
and] om. Ff.
[4529] _Siward_] Theobald. _Seyward_ Ff.
[4530] _for ... man._] Omit as spurious, Anon. conj.
[4531] _causes_] Quoted _cause_ in Theobald's note.
[4532] _Would ... alarm_] F1. Omitted in F2F3F4.
[4533] _mortified_] _milkiest_ Anon. conj.
[4534] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.
[4535] _unrough_] Theobald. _unruffe_ F1F2. _unruff_ F3F4. _unruff'd_
Pope. _unwrought_ Mason conj. _untough_ Collier MS.
[4536] _tyrant?_] F4. _tyrant._ F1F2F3.
[4537] _hate_] F1F2. _hates_ F3F4.
[4538] _cause_] _course_ Singer, ed. 2 (Collier MS. and S. Walker
conj.). _corse_ Anon. conj.
[4539] _there?_] Pope. _there._ Ff.
[4540] _medicine_] _Med'cine_ Ff. _medecin_ Steevens (Warburton conj.).
_med'cin_ Capell.
[4541] _Make we_] _Make me_ Theobald (ed. 1). _Make up_ Theobald (ed.
2).
_Birnam_] _Birnan_ F4.
[Exeunt, marching.] Ff. Exeunt. Rowe.
[4542] Dunsinane. A room in the castle.] Capell. The Castle. Rowe.
Dunsinane. Pope.
[4543] _Birnam_] F3 F4. _Byrnane_ F1. _Byrnam_ F2.
[4544] _taint_] _faint_ S. Walker conj.
[4545] _The spirits_] _Spirits_ Pope.
[4546] _consequences have_] _consequents_, Steevens (1793).
_me thus_] _it_ Pope. _me_ Capell.
[4547] _upon_] _on_ Steevens (1793).
_Then fly_] _Fly_ Pope.
[4548] _sway_] _stay_ Anon. conj.
[4549] Enter a Servant.] F3 F4. Enter Servant. F1 F2. Enter an
Attendant, hastily. Capell.
[4550] _loon_] F3. _loone_ F1 F2. _lown_ F4.
[4551] _goose_] _ghost_ Anon. apud Rann conj.
[4552] _is_] _are_ Rowe.
_thousand--_] Rowe. _thousand._ Ff.
[4553] _whey-face_] _whay-face_ Ff.
[4554] [Exit Servant.] Dyce. om. Ff.
[4555] _Seyton ... say!--_] Pointed as in Rowe. _Seyton, I ...
hart, ... behold: Seyton, I say,_ Ff.
[4556] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[4557] _cheer_] F3 F4. _cheere_ F1 F2. _chair_ Dyce (Percy conj.).
_disseat_] Steevens (Jennens and Capell conj.). _dis-eate_ F1.
_disease_ F2 F3 F4.
[4558] _way_] _May_ Steevens, 1778, (Johnson conj.).
_of_] _off_ Jackson conj.
[4559] _and dare_] _but dare_ Reed (1803, 1813, 1821).
[4560] _Seyton!_] om. Rowe.
[4561] _What's_] _What is_ Pope.
[4562] _be_] F1. _is_ F2 F3 F4.
[4563] _moe_] F1 F2. _more_ F3 F4.
_skirr_] _scour_ A. Hunter.
[4564] _talk of_] F1 _stand in_ F2 F3 F4.
[4565] _Cure her_] F2 F3 F4. _Cure_ F1. _Make cure_ Anon. conj.
_of_] F1 F2. _from_ F3 F4.
[4566] _not_] om. Badham conj.
_a mind_] _minds_ Pope.
[4567] _Raze_] F1 F2. _Raise_ F3. _Rase_ F4.
[4568] _stuffd ... stuff_] _cloggd ... stuff_ or _stuffd ... load_
Staunton conj.
_stuffd_] _stufft_ F1. _stuft_ F2 F3 F4. _full_ Pope. _foul_ A. Hunter
(Steevens conj.). _fraught_ Anon. conj. _pressd_ Anon. conj.
_stuff_] F3 F4. _stuffe_ F1 F2. _tuft_ Jackson conj. _grief_ Collier
(Collier MS.). _matter_ Keightley. _slough_ Anon. conj.
[4569] _to_] F1. _unto_ F2 F3 F4.
[4570] _mine_] F1 F2 F3. _my_ F4.
[4571] _pristine_] _pristine_ F1.
[4572] _cyme_] _Cyme_ F1 _Caeny_ F2 F3. _senna_ F4. _clysme_ Badham
conj _sene_ Wellesley conj. _sirrah_ Bullock conj.
[4573] _Birnam_] _Birnane._ F1.
[Exit. Steevens (1793). Exeunt all except Doctor. Dyce.
[4574] [Aside] Hanmer.
[4575] [Exeunt.] Exit. Steevens (1793). Country ...] Edd. (Globe ed.).
A Wood. Rowe. Birnam Wood. Pope. Plains leading to Dunsinane; a Wood
adjacent. Capell. om. Steevens.
Drums and colours.] Ff. om. Rowe.
Enter ...] Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, Seywards Sonne, Menteth,
Cathnes, Angus, and Soldiers Marching. Ff.
[4576] _Cousins_] _Cosins_ F1 F2. _Cousin_ F3 F4.
[4577] _Birnam_] F3 F4. _Byrnam_ F2. _Birnane_ F1.
[4578] _confident_] _confin'd_ Warburton.
[4579] _where ... have given_] _when ... do give_ A. Hunter.
[4580] _advantage to be given_] _a 'vantage to be gone_ Johnson conj.
_advantage to be gone_ Capell. _advantage to be got_ Steevens conj.
_advantage to be taken_ Keightley (Chedworth conj.). _advantage to
be gain'd_ Singer conj. (withdrawn). _advantage to be gotten_ Collier
(Collier MS.).
[4581] _Let ... Attend_] F1. _Let our best censures Before_ F2 F3
F4. _Set our best censures Before_ Rowe. _Let our best centuries
Before:--_ Jackson conj.
[4582] Dunsinane. Within....] Malone. The Castle. Rowe. Dunsinane.
Pope. The Castle of Dunsinane. Theobald. Before Dunsinane. Hanmer.
Dunsinane. A Plat-form within the Castle. Capell.
[4583] ... drums and colours.] ... Drum and Dolours. F3.... Drums and
Colours. F4.
[4584] _banners on ... walls_;] _banners on ... walls,_ Ff. _banners;
on ... walls_ Anon. conj.
[4585] _forced_] _'forc'd_ Hanmer. _farc'd_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[4586] [A cry ...] A Cry within of Women. Ff (after _noise?_).
[4587] [Exit.] Dyce. om. Ff. Retires. Collier conj. Enter an Attendant,
who whispers Seyton. Anon. conj.
[4588] _cool'd_] _'coil'd_ Malone conj. _quail'd_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[4589] _sup'd full_] _surfeited_ Hanmer.
[4590] _once_] _now_ Hanmer.
Re-enter Seyton.] Dyce. om. Ff.
[4591] _my lord_] om. Pope.
[4592] _died hereafter; There_] _died: hereafter There_ Jackson conj.
[4593] _time ... word._] _time for--Such a world!--_ Johnson conj.
(withdrawn).
[4594] _Creeps_] _Creep_ Capell conj.
[4595] _fools_] _foules_ Hunter conj.
[4596] _dusty_] F1. _study_ F2 F3 F4. _dusky_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.).
[4597] _A poor ... more_:] Omitted by A. Hunter.
[4598] _Gracious my_] F1. _My gracious_ F2 F3 F4.
[4599] _I say_] _I'd say_ Hanmer. om. Keightley, reading _Gracious ...
which_ as one line.
[4600] _do it_] Knight. _doo't_ F1 F2. _do't_ F3 F4.
_say_] _say it_ Pope.
[4601] _Birnam_] F4. _Byrnane_ F1. _Byrnam_ F2 F3.
[4602] [Striking him. Rowe.
[4603] _may you_] F1 F2. _you may_ F3 F4.
[4604] _shalt_] _shall_ F1.
[4605] _cling_] _clem_ Anon. conj.
[4606] _pull_] _pall_ A. Hunter (Johnson conj.).
[4607] _toward_] _towards_ Warburton.
[4608] _If ... undone._] Omit as spurious, Anon. conj.
[4609] _nor flying_] F1 F2. _no flying_ F3 F4.
[4610] _a-weary_] F1. _a weary_ F2 F3 F4. _weary_ Johnson.
[4611] _the estate_] _th' estate_ Ff. _the state_ Pope.
[4612] _Ring ... bell_] A stage direction, Theobald conj.
[4613] Dunsinane. Before ...] Before Macbeth's Castle. Rowe. Before
Dunsinane. Pope.
[4614] Drum and colours.] Ff. om. Rowe.
Enter ... old Siward ...] Enter ... Seyward ... Ff.
[4615] _Now ... down_,] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
_leavy_] Ff. _leafy_ Collier.
[4616] _worthy_] _brave_ Pope.
[4617] _upon 's_] _upon us_ Capell.
[4618] _Do we_] _Let us_ Pope.
[4619] [Exeunt.] Capell. Exeunt. Alarums continued. Ff.
[4620] SCENE VII.] Scena Septima. Ff. Rowe, Pope, &c. continue the
Scene.
Another ...] The same. Another Part of the Plain. Capell.
[4621] Alarums.] Alarums, as of a Battle join'd. Skirmishings. Capell.
Alarums continued. Ff (at end of SCENE VI).
[4622] _They have_] _They've_ Pope.
[4623] Enter young Siward.] Theobald. Enter young Seyward. Ff (yong F2).
[4624] _hotter_] _hoter_ F1.
[4625] _abhorred_] F1. _thou abhorred_ F2 F3 F4.
[4626] [They fight ...] Fight, and young Seyward slaine. F1 F2 (yong
F2). Fight, and young Seyward's slain. F3 F4.
[4627] _either_] _or_ Pope.
[4628] _unbatter'd_] Rowe. _unbattered_ F1 F3 F4. _unbatterred_ F2.
[4629] _Seems ... And_] _As in_ Ff. One line in Hanmer.
[4630] _bruited_] _bruited there_ Steevens conj.
_find_] _but find_ Steevens conj.
[4631] Alarums.] Ff. Alarum. Rowe (ed. 2).
old Siward.] Seyward. Ff. Siward. Theobald. old Seyward. Capell.
[4632] _itself professes_] _professes itself_ Johnson.
[4633] _We have_] _We've_ Pope.
[4634] Alarum.] Ff. Alarums. Capell.
[4635] SCENE VIII]. Dyce. SCENE VII. Pope. Scene continued in Ff.
... field.] ... plain. Dyce.
[4636] Enter ...] Ff. Re-enter ... Capell.
[4637] _whiles_] _whilst_ Rowe.
[4638] Enter ...] Ff. Re-enter ... Capell.
[4639] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.
[4640] [They fight.] Malone. Fight: Alarum. Ff. Fight. Capell.
[4641] _I'll_] _I will_ S. Walker conj., ending the lines _hope!...
coward._
[4642] _pole_] _cloth_ A. Hunter.
[4643] _I will_] _I'll_ Pope.
[4644] _Birnam_] F4. _Byrnane_ F1. _Byrnam_ F2F3.
[4645] _being_] _be_ Theobald.
[4646] _him_] _he_ Pope.
[4647] [Exeunt, fighting. Alarums.] Pope. Exeunt fighting. Alarums.
Enter Fighting, and Macbeth slaine. Ff. Exeunt, fighting. Capell.
[4648] Retreat. Flourish.] Retreat, and Flourish. Ff.
old Siward,] Seyward, Ff. Siward, Theobald, old Seyward, Capell.
the other Thanes,] Thanes, Ff. Lenox, Angus, Cathness, Menteth, Malone.
[4649] SCENE VIII. Pope.
[4650] _his prowess_] _he well_ A. Hunter.
[4651] _he is_] _is he_ Pope.
[4652] _cause_] _course_ Anon. conj.
[4653] _And so_] _So_ Pope. _And_ Collier MS.
_be with_] _b' wi'_ Anon. conj.
[4654] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter ... Ff.
...head.] Ff.... head on a pole. Malone (from Holinshed).... head on a
pike. A. Hunter.
[4655] _Hail ... stands_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
[Sticking the pike in the ground. Collier (Collier MS.).
[4656] _pearl_] F3F4. _pearle_ F1F2. _peers_ Rowe. _pearls_ Anon. conj.
[4657] _Scotland!_] _Scotland! hail!_ Hanmer.
All. _Hail_,] All. _All hail_, Anon. conj.
_Hail ... Scotland!_] _King of Scotland, hail!_ Steevens (1793).
[4658] _spend_] _make_ Keightley.
_expense_] _extent_ Steevens conj. _expanse_ Singer conj.
[4659] _My_] om. Pope.
[4660] _self and_] _self-laid_ Anon. conj.
[4661] _what_] _what's_ Hanmer.
[4662] _Grace_] _heaven_ Pope. _God_ Warburton.
[4663] Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.
NOTES.
NOTE I.
I. 3. 21-24. Pope was the first to place the words 'Thus thou ...
undone' in inverted commas, and was followed substantially by all
subsequent editors with the exception of those we are about to mention.
Hanmer printed in italics 'This thou must do if thou have it' only, and
was followed by Capell and Mr. Staunton, except that they restore the
original reading 'Thus' for 'This.' Johnson proposed to read 'me' for
'it' in line 22, printing in italics the same words which Pope included
in inverted commas. His reading was adopted by Rann. Dr. A. Hunter
(Harry Rowe) read:
'Thou'dst have, great Glamis,
That which cries, _Thus than must do, if thou have me,_
_And that's what rather thou dost fear to do,_
_Than wishest should be undone_.'
Mr. Joseph Hunter (_New Illustrations &c. of Shakespeare_, II. p. 172)
proposed to mark the words 'Thus thou must do' only as a quotation, and
to read line 22 thus:
'That which cries "Thus thou must do" if thou wouldst have it.'
NOTE II.
II. 1. 13, 14. The first Folio reads here:
'He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.'
The second, followed substantially by the third and fourth:
'He hath beene in unusuall pleasure.
And sent forth a great Largesse to your Offices.'
Rowe altered 'Offices' to 'Officers.'
Pope reads:
'He hath to-night been in unusual pleasure,
And sent great largess to your officers.'
'To-night' was first introduced in Davenant's Version.
This reading was adopted by subsequent editors down to Capell,
inclusive. Steevens (1773) has:
'He hath been in unusual pleasure;
Sent forth great largess to your officers.'
Jennens first adopted the arrangement given in our text, though he
retained Rowe's emendation 'officers.'
NOTE III.
II. 1. 24. After this line Jennens proposes to add the following to
Banquo's speech:
'Those lookers into fate, that hail'd you, _Cawdor_!
Did also hail you, king! and I do trust,
Most worthy _Thane_, you would _consent_ to accept
What your deserts would grace, when offer'd you.'
NOTE IV.
II. 2. 35, 36. In the Folios and the earlier editors it is not clear
from the mode of printing where the words of the 'voice' ended. Hanmer
printed the whole in italics down to 'life's feast' in line 40,
omitting however line 37 with Pope. Johnson was the first to print only
the words 'Sleep no more! Macbeth doth murther sleep' as the cry of the
voice, supposing the remainder to be Macbeth's comment. In lines 42,
43, where the printing of the earlier editions is equally indecisive,
Hanmer prints from 'Glamis' to 'Macbeth shall sleep no more' in
italics, while Johnson prints only 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep' as the
cry of the voice.
NOTE V.
III. 1. 120-122. Dr. A. Hunter (Harry Rowe) arranges these lines as
follows:
'But wail his fall whom I myself struck down:
For certain friends there are, both his and mine,
Whose loves I may not drop: and thence it is, &c.'
NOTE VI.
III. 2. 29-35. In these lines we have followed the arrangement of
Steevens (1793), which with the exception of the fourth and fifth lines
is the same as that of the Folios. The Folios divide the fourth and
fifth lines thus:
'Vnsafe the while, that wee must laue
Our Honors in these flattering streames.'
Rowe read them:
'Unsafe the while, that we must lave our Honours
In these so flattering streams,
And make &c.'
Pope:
'Unsafe the while, that we must lave our honours
In these so flatt'ring streams, and make our faces
Vizards t'our hearts, disguising what they are.
Capell rearranged the whole passage thus:
'So shall I, love;
And so, I pray, be you: let your remembrance
Apply to Banquo; present him eminence, both
With eye and tongue: Unsafe the while, that we
Must lave our honours in these flattering streams;
And make our faces vizards to our hearts.
Disguising what they are.'
Steevens suggested that something was omitted, and proposed to read
'Unsafe the while it is for us, that we,' &c.
NOTE VII.
III. 4. 124. 'Augure,' as was pointed out by Mr. Singer, was used for
'augury.' In Florio's _World of Wordes_(1598), we find 'Augurio,
an _augure_, a soothsaying, a prediction, a signe, a coniecture, a
divination, a bad or ill hap, a wishing of good hap, a forboding.'
NOTE VIII.
IV. 1. 43. Rowe, from Davenant's version, prints the song thus:
'Black Spirits and White,
Blue Spirits and Gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.'
In the second line Malone printed 'Red spirits,' &c., following
Middleton's play of _The Witch_, Act V. Sc. 2.
NOTE IX.
V. 1. 32. _Hell is murky._ Steevens printed these words with a note
of exclamation after them, with the following note. 'She certainly
imagines herself here talking to Macbeth, who, (she supposes,) has
just said, _Hell is murky_, (i.e. hell is a dismal place to go to in
consequence of such a deed,) and repeats his words in contempt of his
cowardice.'
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Transcriber's Notes:
Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were
silently corrected.
Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.
Line wrapping retained in plays to retain prose numbering.
Linenotes converted to footnotes with anchors at line ends.
Incorrect line numbers retained, e.g. there are often more than
5 lines (or occasionally less than 5) between increments of 5.
Anchors assigned to linenotes without line references.
Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_.