Act 1 Scene 3 140


Macbeth


Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair52 And make my seated53


heart knock at my ribs,


Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man54 Is smothered in surmise,55


that function and nothing is


But what is not.56 BANQUO


Look, how our partner's rapt.57


MACBETH [Aside] If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me,


Without my stir.58 BANQUO


New honours come upon him,


Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use.59


MACBETH [Aside] Come what come may, 150 Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.60


BANQUO Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.


MACBETH Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought61 With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains Are registered where every day I turn The leaf to read them.62


Let us toward the King.


[Aside to BANQUO] Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time, The interim having weighed it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other.63


BANQUO [Aside to MACBETH]Very gladly.


MACBETH [Aside to BANQUO] Till then, enough. [Aloud] Come, friends. [Exeunt]


16 60


Time and the hour runs through the roughest day: Every rough day will inevitably come to an end.


59


New honours…aid of use: Just like one has to get used to new clothes, Macbeth will have to become accustomed to his new title.


56 52


doth unfix my hair: makes my hair stand up (in fright)


53 seated: firmly fixed 54


55


Shakes so my single state of man: disturbs my being/shakes me to the core


function / Is smothered in surmise: action is paralysed by speculation


nothing is / But what is not: nothing seems as it is


57 rapt: lost in thought 58


Without my stir: without me seeking it


61 wrought: overcome/taken up 62


your pains…to read them: Every day I think of what you have done for me.


63


Think upon…each to other: Think about what has happened, and having weighed it up, let’s speak honestly to each other.


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