Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying, with accents terrible,
56 Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird57
Clamored the livelong night. Some say the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
MACBETH 'Twas a rough night.
LENNOX
My young remembrance cannot parallel60
A fellow to it. Enter Macduff.
MACDUFF
O horror, horror, horror—
Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!
MACBETH AND LENNOX What's the matter?
MACDUFF
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece:65
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple and stole thence
The life o' th' building!
MACBETH What is't you say? the life?
LENNOX
Mean you his majesty?
MACDUFF
Approach the chamber and destroy your sight70
With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak.71
See, and then speak yourselves.
Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.
Awake, awake!
Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm, awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,