Macbeth - Page 19

Duncan comes here tonight.

LADY MACBETH And when goes hence?

MACBETH

Tomorrow, as he purposes.

LADY MACBETH O, never

60 Shall sun that morrow see.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

62 May read strange matters. To beguile the time, 63 Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. He that's coming

Must be provided for; and you shall put

67 This night's great business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

MACBETH

70 We will speak further.

LADY MACBETH Only look up clear.

71 To alter favor ever is to fear.

Leave all the rest to me.

Exeunt.

I.6Hautboys and torches. Enter King [Duncan], Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff,

Ross, Angus, and Attendants.

KING DUNCAN

This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air1

Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

Unto our gentle senses.3

BANQUO This guest of summer,

The temple-haunting martlet, does approve4

By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath5

Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,6

Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird7

Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.8

Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed

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