The air is delicate.10Enter Lady [Macbeth].
KING DUNCAN
See, see, our honored hostess!
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,12
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
How you shall bid God 'ield us for your pains14
And thank us for your trouble.
LADY MACBETH All our service
In every point twice done, and then done double,
Were poor and single business to contend17
Against those honors deep and broad wherewith
Your majesty loads our house. For those of old,
And the late dignities heaped up to them,20
21 We rest your hermits.
KING DUNCAN Where's the Thane of Cawdor?
22 We coursed him at the heels and had a purpose To be his purveyor; but he rides well,
24 And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
We are your guest tonight.
LADY MACBETH Your servants ever 27 Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in count, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
29 Still to return your own.
KING DUNCAN Give me your hand.
30 Conduct me to mine host; we love him highly And shall continue our graces towards him.
By your leave, hostess.
Exeunt.
1.7Hautboys. Torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers
Servants with dishes and service over the stage.
Then enter Macbeth.
MACBETH
1 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination
3 Could trammel up the consequence, and catch 4 With his surcease success, that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all-here,