Shakspere's Tragedy of Macbeth Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and company Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing t... more »ext. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JicbetTi. Call 'em, let me see 'em. rst Witch. Pour in sow's blood, that hath. eaten Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten From the murderer's gibbet throw Into the flame. All. Come, high or low; Thyself and office deftly showf] Thunder. First Apparition : an armed Head. Macbeth. Tell me, thou unknown power, -- First Witch. He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought. 70 First Apparition. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me : enoughj [Descends. Macbeth. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution thanks; Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one word more, -- First Witch. He will not be commanded: here's another, More potent than the first. Thunder. Second Apparition : a bloody Child. Second Apparition. Macbeth! Macbeth ! Macbeth! Macbeth. Had I three ears, I 'ld hear thee. Second Apparition. Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born so Shall harm Macbeth. [Descends. 74. harp'd, struck the key-note of. 68. " The armed head represents symbolically Macbeth's head cut off and brought to Malcolm by Macduff. The bloody child is Mac- duff untimely ripped from his mother's womb. The child with a crown on his head and a bough in his hand is the royal Malcolm, who ordered his soldiers to hew them down a bough and bear it before them to Dunsiuane." -- Upton. Macbeth. Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee ? But yet I 'll make assurance dou...« less