SCENE III. - Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle. Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants. Macb. Bring me no more reports; let them fly all; Shall never sagg with doubt, nor shake with fear. Enter a Servant. Thou cream-fac'd loon. Serv. There is ten thousand Macb. Serv. Macb. What soldiers, patch? Geese, villain? 1 Soldiers, sir. Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine Serv. The English force, so please you. Macb. Take thy face hence. - Seyton ! - I am sick at heart. When I behold-Seyton, I say ! This push Enter SEYΤΟΝ. Sey. What is your gracious pleasure? What news more Sey. All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported. Macb. I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. Give me my armor. Sey. 'Tis not needed yet. Macb. I'll put it on. Send out more horses, skirr the country round; Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armor, How does your patient, doctor? Doct. As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. Macb. Not so sick, my lo Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; Doct. Must minister to himself. Therein the patient Macb. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.- And purge it to a sound and pristine health, What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug, Would scour these English hence? Hearest thou of them î Doct. Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation Makes us hear something. Macb. Bring it after me. I will not be afraid of death and bane, Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. SCENE IV. Country near Dunsinane: A Wood in view. [Exit. Enter, with drums and colors, MALCOLM, Old SIWARD, and his Son, MACDUFF, MENTETH, CATHNESS, ANGUS, LENOX, ROSSE, ana Soldiers, marching. Mal. Cousins, I hope, the days are near at hand, That chambers will be safe. Ment. We doubt it nothing. Siw. What wood is this before us? Ment. The wood of Birnam. Mal. Let every soldier hew him down a bough, And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host, and make discovery Err in report of us. Siw. We learn no other, but the confident tyrant Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure Our setting down before't. Mal. 'Tis his main hope: For where there is advantage to be given, And none serve with him but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too. Macd. Let our just censures Attend the true event, and put we on Siw. The time approaches, That will with due decison make us know Towards which, advance the war. [Exeunt, marching SCENE V. --Dunsinane. Within the Castle. Enter, with drums and colors, MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers. Macb. Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, They come: Our castle's strength And beat them backward home. What is that noise ? [A cry witnın, of women Sey. It is the cry of women, my good lord. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Enter a Messenger. Thou com'st to use thy tongue; thy story quickly. Mess. Gracious my lord, I shall report that which I say I saw, But know not how to do it. Macb. Well, say, sir. Mess. As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Macb. Liar, and slave ! Mess. Let me endure your wrath, if 't be not so ; Within this three mile may you see it coming; I say, a moving grove. Macb. If thou speak'st false, To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth: Fear not, till Birnam wood There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.- At least we'll die with harness on our back. [Striking him [Exeunt. Macbeth leads his followers to the Battle, which terminates in the defeat of the Usurper who is dain by Macduff, and Malcolm is declared King of Scotland. AS YOU LIKE IT. Shakspeare took the plot of this delightful comedy from a novel called, "Rosa' ynde, er Enphues' Golden Legacy," written by Lodge, who borrowed his materials from an old English poem, of the age of Chaucer. Our Feet has improved upon his model, and has constructed one of the most exquisitely finished Pastoral Poems extant in our language. The Plot and leading incidents of the Comedy, will be clearly illustrated in the selected scenes we have given. PERSONS REPRESENTED. DUKE, living in exile. FREDERICK, brother to the Duke, and usurper of his dominions. LE BEAU, a courtier attending upon Frederick. CHARLES, his wrestler. OLIVER, JAQUES, ORLANDO, sons of Sir Rowland de Bois. ADAM, DENNIS, servants to Oliver. TOUCHSTONE, a clown. Sir OLIVER MARTEXT, a vicar. CORIN, SILVIUS, shepherds. WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with Audrey. A Person representing Hymen. ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke. CELIA, daughter to Frederick. PHEBE, a shepherdess. AUDREY, a country girl. Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants. The SCENE lies, first, near OLIVER's House; afterwards partly in the Usurper's Court and partly in the Forest of ARDEN. |