Shakespere's Macbeth - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...90 And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss: Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst, And all to all. Lords. Our duties, and the pledge. Re-enter Ghost. Macb. A vaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with! Lady M. Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. Macb. What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 100 The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence! Ghost vanishes. Why, so: being gone, I am a man again. Pray you, sit still. Lady M. You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. no Macb. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear. Ross. What sights, my lord? Lady M. I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him: At once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, 120 But go at once. Len. Good night; and better health Attend his majesty! Lady M. A kind good night to all! Exeunt all but Macbeth and Lady M. Macb. It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of...