TPTT The Tragedy of Macbeth: ACT III
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
SCENE I. Forres. The palace.
SCENE II. The palace.
SCENE III. A park near the palace.
SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.
SCENE V. A Heath.
SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE V. A Heath.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE
First Witch
      Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.
HECATE
      Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
      Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
      To trade and traffic with Macbeth
5     In riddles and affairs of death;
      And I, the mistress of your charms,
      The close contriver of all harms,
      Was never call'd to bear my part,
      Or show the glory of our art?
10    And, which is worse, all you have done
      Hath been but for a wayward son,
      Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,
      Loves for his own ends, not for you.
      But make amends now: get you gone,
15    And at the pit of Acheron
      Meet me i' the morning: thither he
      Will come to know his destiny:
      Your vessels and your spells provide,
      Your charms and every thing beside.
20    I am for the air; this night I'll spend
      Unto a dismal and a fatal end:
      Great business must be wrought ere noon:
      Upon the corner of the moon
      There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
25    I'll catch it ere it come to ground:
      And that distill'd by magic sleights
      Shall raise such artificial sprites
      As by the strength of their illusion
      Shall draw him on to his confusion:
30    He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
      He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
      And you all know, security
      Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' &c

      Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,
35    Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.
Exit
First Witch
      Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.
Exeunt
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