How goes the night, boy?
Banquo
The moon is down, I have not heard the clock.
Fleance
And she goes down at twelve.
Banquo
I take it ‘tis later, sir.
Fleance
Hold, take my sword. There’s husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out.
Banquo
Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep.
Banquo
Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!
Banquo
Give me my sword. Who’s there?
Banquo
What, sir, not yet at rest? The King’s a-bed. He hath been in unusual pleasure and sent forth great largess to your offices.
Banquo
This diamond he greets your wife withal, by the name of most kind hostess, and shut up in measureless content.
Banquo
Being unprepared, our will became the servant to defect, which else should free have wrought.
Macbeth
All’s well. I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters. To you they have showed some truth.
Banquo
I think not of them; yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, we would spend it in some words upon that business, if you would grant the time.
Macbeth
At your kindest leisure.
Banquo
If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, it shall make honour for you.
Macbeth
So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counselled.
Banquo
Good repose the while.
Macbeth
Thanks, sir, the like to you.
Banquo
Go bid they mistress, when my drink is ready, she strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
Macbeth
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.
Macbeth
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?
Macbeth
I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw. Thou marshalest me the way that I was going, and such an instrument I was to use.
Macbeth
Mine eyes are made the fools of the other senses, or else worth all the rest. I see thee still, and on they blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before.
Macbeth
There’s no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes.
Macbeth
Now over the one half-world nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep.
Macbeth
Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate’s offerings, and withered murder, alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, with Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design moves like a ghost.
Macbeth
Thou sure and firm-set earth hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear they very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it.
Macbeth
Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
Macbeth
I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
Macbeth
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Macbeth