TPTT The Tragedy of Macbeth: ACT I
Introduction
ACT I
SCENE I. A desert place.
SCENE II. A camp near Forres.
SCENE III. A heath near Forres.
SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.
SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.
SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.
SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.
Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants
DUNCAN
      Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
      Those in commission yet return'd?
MALCOLM
      My liege,
      They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
5     With one that saw him die: who did report
      That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
      Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
      A deep repentance: nothing in his life
      Became him like the leaving it; he died
10    As one that had been studied in his death
      To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
      As 'twere a careless trifle.
DUNCAN
      There's no art
      To find the mind's construction in the face:
15    He was a gentleman on whom I built
      An absolute trust.

Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS

      O worthiest cousin!
      The sin of my ingratitude even now
      Was heavy on me: thou art so far before
20    That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
      To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,
      That the proportion both of thanks and payment
      Might have been mine! only I have left to say,
      More is thy due than more than all can pay.
MACBETH
25    The service and the loyalty I owe,
      In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part
      Is to receive our duties; and our duties
      Are to your throne and state children and servants,
      Which do but what they should, by doing every thing
30    Safe toward your love and honour.
DUNCAN
      Welcome hither:
      I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
      To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
      That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
35    No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
      And hold thee to my heart.
BANQUO
      There if I grow,
      The harvest is your own.
DUNCAN
      My plenteous joys,
40    Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
      In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
      And you whose places are the nearest, know
      We will establish our estate upon
      Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
45    The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must
      Not unaccompanied invest him only,
      But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
      On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,
      And bind us further to you.
MACBETH
50    The rest is labour, which is not used for you:
      I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
      The hearing of my wife with your approach;
      So humbly take my leave.
DUNCAN
      My worthy Cawdor!
MACBETH
55    (Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
      On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
      For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
      Let not light see my black and deep desires:
      The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
60    Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Exit
DUNCAN
      True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,
      And in his commendations I am fed;
      It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,
      Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
65    It is a peerless kinsman.
Flourish. Exeunt
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