Act 1 Scene 5


To have thee crowned withal.14 [Enter a Messenger]


What is your tidings?15


MESSENGER The King comes here tonight.


LADYMACBETH 30 Thou'rt mad to say it!


Is not thy master with him? who, were't so, Would have informed for preparation.


MESSENGER So please you, it is true: our Thane is coming: One of my fellows had the speed of him,16 Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message.


LADYMACBETH Give him tending;17


He brings great news. [ExitMessenger]


The raven18 himself is hoarse 40


That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!19


Make thick my blood;


Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature20 Shake my fell21


purpose, nor keep peace between


The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall,22


50 thee in the dunnest24 smoke of hell, That my keen25 you murdering ministers,


Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall23


knife see not the wound it makes,


Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!'


[Enter MACBETH] Great Glamis!Worthy Cawdor!


Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant.


MACBETH My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight. 23 17 Give him tending: look after him 18


raven: a bird associated with death; an ill-omen


19


Come, you spirits…direst cruelty!: Come you evil spirits who listen to human thoughts, destroy my soft feminine nature and fill me from head to toe with vicious cruelty!


compunctious visitings of nature: natural regretful thoughts 21 fell: cruel/dire 22 gall: bitterness


20 23 pall: cover


24 dunnest: darkest 25 keen: sharp/eager


14 withal: with 15 tidings: news


Macbeth


16


had the speed of him: was faster than him


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