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THIRDAPPARITION Be lion-mettled,40
Who chafes, who frets,41 or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquished42 Great Birnam wood43
proud, and take no care be until
to high Dunsinane hill44
Shall come against him. [Descends]
MACBETH That will never be
Who can impress45 the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements!46
Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature,47
pay his breath 100 To time and mortal custom.48Yet my heart
Throbs to know one thing: tell me (if your art Can tell so much), shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?
ALL Seek to know no more.
MACBETH I will be satisfied: deny me this, And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. [Hautboys]
Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?
FIRSTWITCH Show!
SECONDWITCH Show!
THIRDWITCH Show!
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ALL Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart! [A show of eight kings, the last with a glass in his hand;49 GHOST OF BANQUO following]
MACBETH Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down! Thy crown does sear50
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Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. A third is like the former. Filthy hags!
mine eye-balls. And thy hair, good!
45 impress: conscript/force into doing 46 bodements: predictions
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live the lease of nature: live a full lifespan
pay his…custom: breathe until old age and natural death come for him
40 lion-mettled: brave as a lion 41
42 vanquished: beaten 43
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Macbeth
Who chafes, who frets: who is angry, who worries
Birnam wood: A forest close to Macbeth’s castle
Dunsinane hill: The hill upon which Macbeth’s castle sits
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glass in his hand: holding a mirror. The mirror reflects a further stretch of kings. Banquo’s line will reign indefinitely.
50 sear: scorch
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