ACT II.
Scene I. Inverness. Court of Macbeth's Castle.[3924]
Enter Banquo, and Fleance bearing a torch before him.[3925]
Enter Macbeth, and a Servant with a torch.[3930]
Who's there?[3929] 10
He hath been in unusual pleasure, and[3931]
Sent forth great largess to your offices:[3931]
This diamond he greets your wife withal, 15
By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up[3932][3933]
In measureless content.[3932]
Our will became the servant to defect,
Which else should free have wrought.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:[3935] 20
To you they have show'd some truth.[3936]
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,[3937]
If you would grant the time.
It shall make honour for you.[3940]
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.
[Pg 446]
[Exeunt Banquo and Fleance.[3942]
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [Exit Servant.[3943]
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 35
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable 40
As this which now I draw.[3944][3945]
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;[3944][3945]
And such an instrument I was to use.[3944][3945]
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,[3945]
Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still;[3945] 45
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,[3946]
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world[3947]
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 50
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates[3948]
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder,[3949]
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,[3950]
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design[3951] 55
[Pg 447] Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,[3952]
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear[3953]
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,[3954]
And take the present horror from the time,[3955]
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:[3955][3956] 60
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.[3957]
[A bell rings.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. [Exit.
Scene II. The same.[3958]
Enter Lady Macbeth.
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace![3959]
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,[3959]
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:[3959]
The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms[3959] 5
[Pg 448] Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets,[3959][3960]
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
Enter Macbeth.
Did not you speak?[3966]
[Pg 449]
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:[3969][3971]
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them[3969][3972]
Again to sleep.[3969]
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands:[3973]
Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'[3973][3974]
When they did say 'God bless us!'[3975]
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'[3976]
Stuck in my throat.[3976]
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.[3977]
Macbeth does murder sleep'—the innocent sleep,[3979][3980]
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,[3981]
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,[3982]
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,[3983]
Chief nourisher in life's feast,—
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor[3985][3986]
Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.'[3985]
[Pg 450]
You do unbend your noble strength, to think 45
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them, and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,[3988] 55
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,[3989]
For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within.[3990]
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?[3991]
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes!
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood 60
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,[3992][3993]
Making the green one red.[3992][3994]
Re-enter Lady Macbeth.[3995]
To wear a heart so white. [Knocking within] I hear a knocking[3996][3997]65
[Pg 451] At the south entry: retire we to our chamber:[3997]
A little water clears us of this deed:[3997]
How easy is it then! Your constancy[3997]
Hath left you unattended. [Knocking within] Hark! more knocking:[3996][3997]
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us 70
And show us to be watchers: be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.
[Knocking within.
[Exeunt.
Scene III. The same.[4001]
Enter a Porter. Knocking within.
of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. [Knocking[4002][4003][4004][4005]
within] Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of[4002][4003]
Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged himself on th' expectation[4002][4003][4006]
of plenty: come in time; have napkins enow about[4002][4003][4007] 5
you; here you'll sweat for't. [Knocking within.] Knock,[4002][4003][4004][4008]
[Pg 452] knock! Who's there, in th' other devil's name? Faith,[4002][4003][4009]
here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales[4002][4003]
against either scale; who committed treason enough for[4002][4003][4010]
God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come[4002][4003]10
in, equivocator. [Knocking within.] Knock, knock, knock![4002][4003][4004]
Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither,[4002][4003]
for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you[4002][4003]
may roast your goose. [Knocking within.] Knock, knock;[4002][4003][4004]
never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too cold[4002][4003]15
for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to[4002][4003]
have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose[4002][4003]
way to the everlasting bonfire. [Knocking within.] Anon,[4002][4003][4004][4011]
anon! I pray you, remember the porter. [Opens the gate.[4002][4003]
Enter Macduff and Lennox.
and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.[4002][4012][4013]
sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire,[4002]
but it takes away the performance: therefore much drink[4002]
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes[4002]
him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off;[4002]
it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand[4002] 30
to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a[4002][4014]
sleep, and giving him the lie, leaves him.[4002][4014]
requited him for his lie, and, I think, being too strong for[4002] 35
him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a[4002][4016]
[Pg 453] shift to cast him.[4002]
Enter Macbeth.[4017]
I have almost slipp'd the hour.[4018]
But yet 'tis one. 45
Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,[4024]
Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death,[4024]
And prophesying with accents terrible[4025][4026]
Of dire combustion and confused events[4026][4027][4028]
[Pg 454] New hatch'd to the woful time: the obscure bird[4026][4028][4029][4030]55
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth[4029]
Was feverous and did shake.[4029]
A fellow to it.
Re-enter Macduff.[4031]
Cannot conceive nor name thee.[4032]
Len. } What's the matter?
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.
With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves. [Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.
Awake, awake![4035]
Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! 70
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo![4036]
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, 75
[Pg 455] To countenance this horror. Ring the bell. [Bell rings.[4037]
Enter Lady Macbeth.[4038]
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley[4039]
The sleepers of the house? speak, speak![4040]
'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: 80
The repetition, in a woman's ear,
Would murder as it fell.
Enter Banquo.[4041]
What, in our house?
Re-enter Macbeth and Lennox, with Ross.
Enter Malcolm and Donalbain.
The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood[4047]
Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. 95
Their hands and faces were all badged with blood;[4050]
So were their daggers, which unwiped we found
Upon their pillows:[4051] 100
They stared, and were distracted; no man's life[4051][4052]
Was to be trusted with them.[4051]
That I did kill them.[4053]
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
The expedition of my violent love
Outrun the pauser reason. Here lay Duncan,[4055]
His silver skin laced with his golden blood,[4056]
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature 110
For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,[4057]
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
[Pg 457] Courage to make's love known?
That most may claim this argument for ours?[4059]
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?[4059][4061][4062][4063]
Let's away;[4062] 120
Our tears are not yet brew'd.[4061]
Upon the foot of motion.[4064]
[Lady Macbeth is carried out.
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work, 125
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.
And meet i' the hall together.[4066]
[Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.[4068]
Shall keep us both the safer: where we are[4069]
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,[4069][4070]
The nearer bloody.[4069]
Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse;[4071] 140
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that theft
Which steals itself when there's no mercy left. [Exeunt.
Scene IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.[4072]
Enter Ross with an old Man.
Within the volume of which time I have seen[4073]
Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, 5
Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day,[4075]
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:[4076]
Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
[Pg 459] When living light should kiss it?
Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last
A falcon towering in her pride of place
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,[4079] 15
Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,[4080]
Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make[4081]
War with mankind.[4081][4082]
Enter Macduff.
What good could they pretend?
Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, 25
Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up[4086]
Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like[4087]
[Pg 460] The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. 30
To be invested.
The sacred storehouse of his predecessors
And guardian of their bones.
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
That would make good of bad and friends of foes!
[Exeunt.[4092]
FOOTNOTES:
[3924] Inverness ... castle.] The same. Court within the Castle. Capell (Johnson conj.). A Hall. Rowe. A Hall in Macbeth's Castle. Pope.
[3925] Enter ...] Collier (substantially). Enter Banquo, and Fleance, with a Torch before him. Ff. Enter Banquo, and Fleance; Servant with a Torch before them. Capell.
[3926] The moon ... clock.] I've not ... clock: The moon is down. Seymour conj., ending the first line at clock.
[3927] Hold ... heaven] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
There's] 'Tis very dark; there's Seymour conj.
[3928] And ... repose!] As in Rowe. In Ff lines 7 and 8 end sleepe: ... thoughts.
[3929] Gives ... there?] As in Hanmer. In Ff the lines end repose ... there?
[3930] Enter ...] Ff. After sword in Capell. After there? in Dyce.
Give ... sword] om. Seymour conj., reading Gives ... friend as one line.
[3931] He ... offices] See note (II).
[3932] By ... content.] Arranged as in Pope. The first line ends hostesse, in Ff.
[3933] hostess;] An omission here. Anon. conj.
and shut up] And shut up F1. And shut it up F2F3F4. and's shut up Hanmer.
[3934] All's] Sir, all is Steevens conj.
well] very well Hanmer.
[3935] weird] Theobald. weyward Ff.
[3936] they have] they've Pope.
[3937] We would] Would Pope.
it in] it Rowe (ed. 1). om. Rowe (ed. 2).
[3938]
kind'st] F1. kindst F2. kind
F3F4. kindest A. Hunter.
leisure] See note (III)
[3939] my consent] my ascent Capell conj. MS. my content Malone conj. my concent Id. conj. (withdrawn), me constant Jackson conj. my convent Becket conj. my consort Grant White conj.
[3940] when 'tis ... you.] As in Rowe. One line in Ff.
[3941] [Exeunt....] Theobald. Exit Banquo. Ff.
[3942] Scene II. Pope.
[3943] [Exit Servant.] Rowe. Exit. Ff.
[3944] As ... use.] S. Walker would end the lines me ... instrument ... use.
[3945] As ... still;] Five lines, ending me ... instrument ... fools ... rest ... still; in Keightley.
[3946] thy blade and dudgeon] the blade of th' dudgeon Warburton. thy blade, vain dudgeon, Becket conj.
[3947] Thus] This Rowe (ed. 2).
the one half-world] one half the world Pope.
[3948] sleep] F3 F4. sleepe F1 F2. sleeper Rann (Steevens conj.).
witchcraft] now witchcraft Rowe (Davenant's version). while witchcraft Nicholson conj.
[3949] wither'd] with her Seward conj.
[3950] howl's] F3 F4. howle's F1. howles F2.
[3951] With Tarquin's ... strides,] Pope. With Tarquins ... sides, Ff. Tarquin's ... slides, Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766). With Tarquin ravishing, slides Johnson conj. With ravishing Tarquin's sides, Becket conj. With Tarquin's ravishing ideas, Jackson conj. (Which Tarquin's ravishing sides) Knight conj. Or Tarquin's ravishing strides Hunter conj. With ravishing Tarquin's strides, Staunton conj.
[3952] sure] Capell (Pope conj.). sowre F1 F2. sowr F3. sour F4. sound Pope.
sure and] sovrand Becket conj.
[3953] Hear] Heed Becket conj.
which way they] Rowe. which they may Ff. where they may Barry conj.
walk, for] walk. For Becket conj.
[3954] Thy] The A. Hunter.
of my whereabout] of that we're about Hanmer. of me: veer about or of me: wheel about Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766).
[3955] And take ... Which] And talk—The present horrour of the time! That Johnson conj.
[3956] Whiles] Whilst Rowe. While Capell.
[3957] Words ... gives.] Put in the margin by Pope.
[3958] Scene II.] Scene III. Pope. Theobald continues the scene.
The same.] Capell.
[3959] What ... possets,] Arranged as in Rowe. In Ff the lines end fire ... shriek'd, ... night ... open: ... charge ... possets.
[3960] I have] I've Pope.
[3961] Macb. [Within] Steevens. Enter Macbeth. Macb. Ff.
[3962] attempt and ... deed] Edd., Globe ed. (Hunter conj.). attempt, and ... deed, Ff.
[3963] 'em] them Capell.
[3964] Enter Macbeth.] Steevens (1793). Re-enter Macbeth. Dyce, after husband!
My husband! As in Rowe. A separate line in Ff.
[3965] I ... noise?] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
I have] I've Pope.
[3966] Did ... descended?] Macb. Did ... speak? Lady M. When? Now? Macb. As ... descended. Hunter conj.
[3967] Hark!... chamber?] Arranged as by Steevens (1793). One line in Ff.
[3968] [Looking....] Looks.... Pope. om. Ff.
[3969] There's ... sleep.] Arranged as by Rowe. The lines end sleepe, ... other: ... prayers, ... sleepe, in Ff.
[3970] in's] in his Capell.
[3971] That ... I] They wak'd each other; and I Pope.
[3972] address'd] address Theobald.
[3973] hands: ... fear,] Pointed as in Ff. hands, ... fear; Rowe.
[3974] fear] prayer Anon. conj.
[3975] did say] om. Steevens conj.
[3976] I had ... throat.] As in Pope. One line in Ff.
[3977] These ... ways;] As in Ff. One line in Rowe.
[3978] thought] thought on Hanmer.
[3979] 'Sleep ... sleep'] See note (IV).
[3980] does] doth Rowe (ed. 2).
[3981] Sleep ... care,] Put in the margin by Pope.
sleave] Steevens (Seward conj.). sleeve Ff.
[3982] death] birth Warburton. breath Becket conj.
life] grief Jennens conj.
[3983] course] source Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[3984] feast,—] feast.— Theobald. feast. Ff.
[3985] 'Glamis ... more.'] See note (IV).
[3986] Glamis] For Glamis Seymour conj.
[3987] what] on what Keightley.
[3988] do] om. Pope.
[3989] gild] F3 F4. guild F1. guilde F2.
[3990] [Knocking....] Knocke.... Ff. Knocks.... Rowe (ed. 2).
knocking?] knocking? [Starting. Rowe.
[3991] is't] is it Theobald (ed. 2).
[3992] The ... red] Make the green ocean red— Pope, putting Thy multitudinous sea incarnadine in the margin.
[3993] The] Thy Theobald, after Pope's margin.
seas] sear F4. sea Rowe.
incarnadine] Rowe. incarnardine Ff.
[3994] green one red.] Green one Red. F4. Greene one, Red F1 F2 F3. green, One red— Johnson. green—one red. Steevens, 1778 (Murphy conj.).
[3995] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Lady. Ff.
[3996] [Knocking within.] Dyce. Knocke. Ff. Knocking without. Staunton.
[3997] To ... knocking:] Arranged as in Pope. Seven lines, ending white ... entry: ... chamber: ... deed ... constancie unattended ... knocking, in Ff.
[3998] To ... couldst!] Two lines in Pope. Four in Ff.
[3999] To know] T' unknow Hanmer.
[Knocking....] Knocke. Ff. om. Pope.
[4000] Wake ... thy] Wake Duncan with this Rowe. Wake, Duncan, with this Theobald (Davenant's version).
I would] would Pope. Ay, 'would Steevens (1793).
[4001] Scene III.] Scene continued in Rowe. Scene IV. Warburton, following Pope's margin. Scene II. Staunton.
The same.] Capell.
[4002] Porter. Here's ... cast him.] Put in the margin by Pope.
[4003] Blank verse, Maginn conj.
[4004] [Knocking within.] Knock. Ff.
[4005] he should have old] he could not have more A. Hunter.
[4006] on] in Pope. upon Maginn conj.
[4007] come in time] come in, Time Staunton. come in, farmer Anon. conj.
enow] F1. enough F2 F3 F4.
[4008] you'll] you will Rann.
[4009] in th'] i'th' Theobald (ed. 2).
Faith] I' faith Maginn conj.
[4010] who] one who Maginn conj.
[4011] bonfire] darkness. So quoted by Maginn.
[4012] Faith ... things.] Prose first by Johnson. Two lines in Ff.
[4013] of three things ... cast him.] of sleep. A. Hunter.
[4014] in a sleep] into a sleep Rowe. into sleep Mason conj. asleep Collier MS.
[4015] on me] o' me Theobald (ed. 2).
[4016] up] om. Warburton.
[4017] Scene IV. Pope.
Enter M.] Collier. After line 37 in Ff. After noble sir, line 40, in Pope. After line 39 in Capell. Re-enter M. Dyce, after line 39.
[4018] I have] I've Pope.
[4019] physics] Physicks F1 F2. Physick's F3 F4.
[4020] This] That Capell (MS. correction).
[4021] I'll ... service.] As verse first by Hanmer. Prose in Ff.
[4022] [Exit.] Capell. Exit Macduffe. Ff.
[4023] hence] From hence Steevens (1793), reading For ... king From ... so, as two lines.
He does:] om. Pope.
[4024] The ... death,] As in Rowe. Four lines, ending unruly: ... downe, ... ayre ... Death, in Ff.
[4025] And prophesying] And prophesyings Hanmer. Aunts prophesying Warburton conj.
[4026] And ... time: the] And ... time. The Ff. And, ... time, the Knight (Anon. conj.).
[4027] combustion] F1. combustions F2 F3 F4.
[4028] events New ... time: the] events, New ... time. The Ff. events. New ... time, the Johnson conj.
[4029] New ... shake.] Arranged as in Hanmer. Four lines, ending time ... Night ... fevorous ... shake, in Ff. Three in Rowe, ending time ... night, ... shake.
[4030] obscure] obscene S. Walker conj.
[4031] Re-enter M.] Re-enter M., hastily. Capell. Enter M. Ff.
[4032] Tongue ... thee.] As in Capell. One line in Ff.
[4033] Tongue nor] Or tongue or Pope. Nor tongue, nor Theobald.
[4034] Macd.] F1. Macb. F2 F3 F4.
[4035] [Exeunt ...] Ff, after awake, awake.
[4036] Banquo!] Donalbain! Hanmer. Banquo! rise! Johnson conj.
[4037] Ring the bell. [Bell rings.] Ff. Bell rings. Theobald, omitting Ring the bell.
[Bell rings.] Alarum-bell rings. Dyce.
Enter ...] Re-enter ... Dyce.
[4038] Scene V. Pope.
[4039] a] an Rowe (ed. 2).
[4040] speak, speak!] speak. Pope.
O] om. Pope.
[4041] Enter Banquo.] Enter Banquo, and Others. Capell. Re-enter Banquo. Dyce.
[4042] O ... murder'd.] As in Theobald. One line in Ff.
[4043] Dear Duff] Macduff Pope.
contradict] contract F2 F3 F4.
[4044] Re-enter ...] Enter Macbeth, Lenox, and Rosse. Ff. Re-enter Macbeth, and Lenox. Capell.
[4045] is dead] are dead Hanmer.
[4046] Is] Are Hanmer.
[4047] You are ... head,] You are, and do not know it, The spring, the head: Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 810).
[4048] know't] know it Steevens.
[4049] seem'd, had] seems, have A. Hunter.
[4050] badged] bath'd Malone conj. (withdrawn).
[4051] Upon ... them.] As in Steevens (1793). Two lines, the first ending distracted, in Ff.
[4052] no] As no Hanmer, reading As ... them as one line.
[4053] them.] them— Rowe.
[4054] amazed] and maz'd Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 35).
[4055] Outrun] Outran Johnson.
[4056] His ... blood] His snow-white skin streaked with his crimson blood A. Hunter.
laced] laqu'd Warburton conj.
golden] goary Pope.
[4057] Unmannerly breech'd] Unmanly reech'd Warburton. Unmanly drench'd Johnson. Unmannerly hatch'd Seward conj. In a manner lay drench'd Heath conj.
[4058] make's] make his Capell.
[Seeming to faint. Rowe.
[4059] Look ... us?] S. Walker would end the lines lady ... claim ... spoken ... hole, ... us?
[4060] [gather about her. Capell.
[4061] [Aside ...] Staunton. om. Ff.
[4062] What ... away] As in Dyce. Three lines, ending here, ... hole, ... away, in Ff. Malone ends the lines at spoken ...hole ...tears. Knight ends them at here ... hole ... tears.
[4063] Hid in] hid in F1. hid within F2 F3 F4. hidden in Jackson conj.
[4064] Upon] on Pope, reading Are ... on as one line.
Look] Look there Hanmer.
[Lady ...] Rowe. om. Ff.
[4065] Macd.] Macb. Rowe.
And] om. Pope.
[4066] [Exeunt all but ...] Hanmer. Exeunt. Ff.
[4067] What ... them:] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
[4068] Which ... England.] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
[4069] To ... bloody.] As in Rowe. Four lines in Ff, ending I ... safer: ... smiles; ... bloody.
[4070] near] near' Delius.
[4071] horse] F1. house F2 F3 F4.
[4072] Scene IV.] Scene II. Rowe. Scene VI. Pope.
Outside ...] The outside of Macbeth's Castle. Theobald.
[4073] I have] I've Pope.
[4074] Ah] Rowe. Ha Ff.
[4076] travelling] F3 F4. travailing F1 F2.
[4077] should] shall F2.
[4078] And ... certain] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.
horses] horse S. Walker conj.
[4079] their] the Theobald.
[4080] flung] F3 F4. flong F1 F2.
[4081] would make War] Divided as in Steevens (1793). The first line ends would in Ff.
[4082] mankind] man Pope.
eat] ate Keightley.
[4083] They ... Macduff.] As in Pope. Three lines, ending so: ... upon't ... Macduffe, in Ff.
[4084] Enter Macduff.] As in Ff. After the line in Johnson.
[4085] were] are Theobald (ed. 1).
suborn'd] Rowe. subborned F1 F2. suborned F3 F4.
[4086] wilt] Warburton. will Ff.
ravin up] Theobald, raven up F1. raven upon F2 F3 F4.
[4088] gone] gons F2.
[4089] Colme-kill] Colmeshill Rowe. Colmes-kill Johnson.
[4090] Well, may] Theobald. Well may Ff.
[4091] you] F1. you sir F2. you, sir F3 F4.
[4092] [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.
