Act 2 Scene 3


All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.50 [Enter MALCOLMand DONALBAIN]


DONALBAIN What is amiss?51


MACBETH You are, and do not know't:


The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopped;52


the very source of it is stopped.


MACDUFF Your royal father's murdered.


MALCOLM O, by whom? 100


LENNOX Those of his chamber, as it seemed, had done't: Their hands and faces were all badged53


with blood;


So were their daggers, which unwiped we found Upon their pillows: They stared, and were distracted. No man's life Was to be trusted with them.


MACBETH O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.


MACDUFF Wherefore did you so?


MACBETH Who can be wise, amazed, temperate54


110 and furious,


Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man: The expedition my violent love Outrun the pauser, reason.55


Here lay Duncan,


His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gashed stabs looked like a breach56


That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make's love known?


LADYMACBETH Help me hence, ho! 48 in nature


For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers, Steeped57


in the colours of their trade, their daggers Unmannerly breeched with gore:58 who could refrain,59 54 temperate: calm 55


The expedition…reason:My passion overtook my ability to reason.


56 breach: large gap 57 Steeped: soaked


Unmannerly breeched with gore: indecently dressed in blood 59 refrain: restrain himself


58 53 badged:marked 52


The spring…Is stopped: The head of your family is dead.


50


Macbeth


from this instant…brag of: From now on, nothing in life is serious. Everything is trivialised; fame and good deeds are dead.The spirit of life is drained and only the dregs are left in the cellar to boast of.


51 amiss: wrong


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