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ACT III
Scene I. Forres. The palace.
Enter Banquo
Banquo :Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou play’dst most foully for’t: yet it was said
It should not stand in thy posterity,
But that myself should be the root and father
Of many kings. If there come truth from them —
As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine —
Why, by the verities on thee made good,
May they not be my oracles as well,
And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.
Sennet sounded. Enter Macbeth, as king, Lady Macbeth, as queen, Lennox, Ross, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants
Macbeth :Here’s our chief guest.
Lady Macbeth :If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.
Macbeth :To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,
And I’ll request your presence.
Banquo :Let your highness
Command upon me; to the which my duties
Are with a most indissoluble tie
For ever knit.
Macbeth : Ride you this afternoon?
Banquo :Ay, my good lord.
Macbeth :We should have else desired your good advice,
Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,
In this day’s council; but we’ll take to-morrow.
Is’t far you ride?
Banquo :As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
’Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.
Macbeth :Fail not our feast.
Banquo :My lord, I will not.
Macbeth :We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow’d
In England and in Ireland, not confessing
Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,
When therewithal we shall have cause of state
Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,
Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?
Banquo :Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon ’s.
Macbeth :I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;
And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.
Exit Banquo
Let every man be master of his time
Till seven at night: to make...