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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]

Chapter 190: FOOTNOTES:
By William Shakespeare
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This volume assembles several of the author's tragedies and histories, presenting edited texts alongside prefatory material, notes, and variant readings. It contains a romantic tragedy about feuding houses and ill-fated young lovers; a bitter portrayal of a wealthy figure whose generosity turns to misanthropy and ruin; a political drama depicting a leader's assassination and the ensuing struggle over public power and rhetoric; and a dark study of ambition, guilt, and the supernatural's effect on a ruler's conscience. Editorial commentary and textual emendations accompany each play to clarify language and stage practice.

Macd. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart[4032][4033] 60
 Cannot conceive nor name thee.[4032]
Macb.  }
 Len.     } What's the matter?
Macd. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
 Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
 The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
 The life o' the building.
Macb. What is't you say? the life? 65
Len. Mean you his majesty?
Macd. Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight[4034]
 With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;
 See, and then speak yourselves. [Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.
 Awake, awake![4035]
 Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! 70
 Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
 Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
 And look on death itself! up, up, and see
 The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo![4036]
 As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, 75
 To countenance this horror. Ring the bell. [Bell rings.[4037]

Enter Lady Macbeth.[4038]

Lady M. What's the business,
 That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley[4039]
 The sleepers of the house? speak, speak![4040]
Macd. O gentle lady,
 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: 80
 The repetition, in a woman's ear,
 Would murder as it fell.

Enter Banquo.[4041]

O Banquo, Banquo![4042]
 Our royal master's murder'd.[4042]
Lady M. Woe, alas!
 What, in our house?
Ban. Too cruel any where.
 Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,[4043] 85
 And say it is not so.[4044]

Re-enter Macbeth and Lennox, with Ross.

Macb. Had I but died an hour before this chance,
 I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
 There's nothing serious in mortality:
 All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;[4045] 90
 The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
 Is left this vault to brag of.[4046]

Enter Malcolm and Donalbain.

Don. What is amiss?
Macb. You are, and do not know't:[4047][4048]
 The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood[4047]
 Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. 95
Macd. Your royal father's murder'd.
Mal. O, by whom?
Len. Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done't:[4049]
 Their hands and faces were all badged with blood;[4050]
 So were their daggers, which unwiped we found
 Upon their pillows:[4051] 100
 They stared, and were distracted; no man's life[4051][4052]
 Was to be trusted with them.[4051]
Macb. O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
 That I did kill them.[4053]
Macd. Wherefore did you so?
Macb. Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,[4054] 105
 Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
 The expedition of my violent love
 Outrun the pauser reason. Here lay Duncan,[4055]
 His silver skin laced with his golden blood,[4056]
 And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature 110
 For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
 Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
 Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,[4057]
 That had a heart to love, and in that heart
 Courage to make's love known?
Lady M. Help me hence, ho![4058] 115
Macd. Look to the lady.[4059][4060]
Mal. [Aside to Don.] Why do we hold our tongues,[4059][4061]
 That most may claim this argument for ours?[4059]
Don. [Aside to Mal.] What should be spoken here, where our fate,[4059][4062]
 Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?[4059][4061][4062][4063]
 Let's away;[4062] 120
 Our tears are not yet brew'd.[4061]
Mal. [Aside to Don.] Nor our strong sorrow
 Upon the foot of motion.[4064]
Ban. Look to the lady:

[Lady Macbeth is carried out.

And when we have our naked frailties hid,
 That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
 And question this most bloody piece of work, 125
 To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
 In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
 Against the undivulged pretence I fight
 Of treasonous malice.
Macd. And so do I.[4065]
All. So all.
Macb. Let's briefly put on manly readiness, 130
 And meet i' the hall together.[4066]
All. Well contented.

[Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.

Mal. What will you do? Let's not consort with them:[4067]
 To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
 Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.[4068]
Don. To Ireland, I; our separated fortune[4069] 135
 Shall keep us both the safer: where we are[4069]
 There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,[4069][4070]
 The nearer bloody.[4069]
Mal. This murderous shaft that's shot
 Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
 Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse;[4071] 140
 And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
 But shift away: there's warrant in that theft
 Which steals itself when there's no mercy left. [Exeunt.

Scene IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.[4072]

Enter Ross with an old Man.

Old M. Threescore and ten I can remember well:
 Within the volume of which time I have seen[4073]
 Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
 Hath trifled former knowings.
Ross. Ah, good father,[4074]
 Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, 5
 Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day,[4075]
 And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:[4076]
 Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
 That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
 When living light should kiss it?
Old M. 'Tis unnatural,[4077] 10
 Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last
 A falcon towering in her pride of place
 Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Ross. And Duncan's horses—a thing most strange and certain—[4078]
 Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,[4079] 15
 Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,[4080]
 Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make[4081]
 War with mankind.[4081][4082]
Old M. 'Tis said they eat each other.
Ross. They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes,[4083]
 That look'd upon't.[4083]

Enter Macduff.

Here comes the good Macduff.[4083][4084] 20
 How goes the world, sir, now?
Macd. Why, see you not?
Ross. Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?
Macd. Those that Macbeth hath slain.
Ross. Alas, the day!
 What good could they pretend?
Macd. They were suborn'd:[4085]
 Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, 25
 Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
 Suspicion of the deed.
Ross. 'Gainst nature still:
 Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up[4086]
 Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like[4087]
 The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. 30
Macd. He is already named, and gone to Scone[4088]
 To be invested.
Ross. Where is Duncan's body?
Macd. Carried to Colme-kill,[4089]
 The sacred storehouse of his predecessors
 And guardian of their bones.
Ross. Will you to Scone? 35
Macd. No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
Ross. Well, I will thither.
Macd. Well, may you see things well done there: adieu![4090]
 Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
Ross. Farewell, father.
Old M. God's benison go with you, and with those[4091] 40
 That would make good of bad and friends of foes!

[Exeunt.[4092]

FOOTNOTES:

[3924] Inverness ... castle.] The same. Court within the Castle. Capell (Johnson conj.). A Hall. Rowe. A Hall in Macbeth's Castle. Pope.

[3925] Enter ...] Collier (substantially). Enter Banquo, and Fleance, with a Torch before him. Ff. Enter Banquo, and Fleance; Servant with a Torch before them. Capell.

[3926] The moon ... clock.] I've not ... clock: The moon is down. Seymour conj., ending the first line at clock.

[3927] Hold ... heaven] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

There's] 'Tis very dark; there's Seymour conj.

[3928] And ... repose!] As in Rowe. In Ff lines 7 and 8 end sleepe: ... thoughts.

[3929] Gives ... there?] As in Hanmer. In Ff the lines end repose ... there?

[3930] Enter ...] Ff. After sword in Capell. After there? in Dyce.

Give ... sword] om. Seymour conj., reading Gives ... friend as one line.

[3931] He ... offices] See note (II).

[3932] By ... content.] Arranged as in Pope. The first line ends hostesse, in Ff.

[3933] hostess;] An omission here. Anon. conj.

and shut up] And shut up F1. And shut it up F2F3F4. and's shut up Hanmer.

[3934] All's] Sir, all is Steevens conj.

well] very well Hanmer.

[3935] weird] Theobald. weyward Ff.

[3936] they have] they've Pope.

[3937] We would] Would Pope.

it in] it Rowe (ed. 1). om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[3938] kind'st] F1. kindst F2. kind
F3F4. kindest A. Hunter.

leisure] See note (III)

[3939] my consent] my ascent Capell conj. MS. my content Malone conj. my concent Id. conj. (withdrawn), me constant Jackson conj. my convent Becket conj. my consort Grant White conj.

[3940] when 'tis ... you.] As in Rowe. One line in Ff.

[3941] [Exeunt....] Theobald. Exit Banquo. Ff.

[3942] Scene II. Pope.

[3943] [Exit Servant.] Rowe. Exit. Ff.

[3944] As ... use.] S. Walker would end the lines me ... instrument ... use.

[3945] As ... still;] Five lines, ending me ... instrument ... fools ... rest ... still; in Keightley.

[3946] thy blade and dudgeon] the blade of th' dudgeon Warburton. thy blade, vain dudgeon, Becket conj.

[3947] Thus] This Rowe (ed. 2).

the one half-world] one half the world Pope.

[3948] sleep] F3 F4. sleepe F1 F2. sleeper Rann (Steevens conj.).

witchcraft] now witchcraft Rowe (Davenant's version). while witchcraft Nicholson conj.

[3949] wither'd] with her Seward conj.

[3950] howl's] F3 F4. howle's F1. howles F2.

[3951] With Tarquin's ... strides,] Pope. With Tarquins ... sides, Ff. Tarquin's ... slides, Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766). With Tarquin ravishing, slides Johnson conj. With ravishing Tarquin's sides, Becket conj. With Tarquin's ravishing ideas, Jackson conj. (Which Tarquin's ravishing sides) Knight conj. Or Tarquin's ravishing strides Hunter conj. With ravishing Tarquin's strides, Staunton conj.

[3952] sure] Capell (Pope conj.). sowre F1 F2. sowr F3. sour F4. sound Pope.

sure and] sovrand Becket conj.

[3953] Hear] Heed Becket conj.

which way they] Rowe. which they may Ff. where they may Barry conj.

walk, for] walk. For Becket conj.

[3954] Thy] The A. Hunter.

of my whereabout] of that we're about Hanmer. of me: veer about or of me: wheel about Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVIII. p. 766).

[3955] And take ... Which] And talk—The present horrour of the time! That Johnson conj.

[3956] Whiles] Whilst Rowe. While Capell.

[3957] Words ... gives.] Put in the margin by Pope.

[3958] Scene II.] Scene III. Pope. Theobald continues the scene.

The same.] Capell.

[3959] What ... possets,] Arranged as in Rowe. In Ff the lines end fire ... shriek'd, ... night ... open: ... charge ... possets.

[3960] I have] I've Pope.

[3961] Macb. [Within] Steevens. Enter Macbeth. Macb. Ff.

[3962] attempt and ... deed] Edd., Globe ed. (Hunter conj.). attempt, and ... deed, Ff.

[3963] 'em] them Capell.

[3964] Enter Macbeth.] Steevens (1793). Re-enter Macbeth. Dyce, after husband!

My husband! As in Rowe. A separate line in Ff.

[3965] I ... noise?] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

I have] I've Pope.

[3966] Did ... descended?] Macb. Did ... speak? Lady M. When? Now? Macb. As ... descended. Hunter conj.

[3967] Hark!... chamber?] Arranged as by Steevens (1793). One line in Ff.

[3968] [Looking....] Looks.... Pope. om. Ff.

[3969] There's ... sleep.] Arranged as by Rowe. The lines end sleepe, ... other: ... prayers, ... sleepe, in Ff.

[3970] in's] in his Capell.

[3971] That ... I] They wak'd each other; and I Pope.

[3972] address'd] address Theobald.

[3973] hands: ... fear,] Pointed as in Ff. hands, ... fear; Rowe.

[3974] fear] prayer Anon. conj.

[3975] did say] om. Steevens conj.

[3976] I had ... throat.] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[3977] These ... ways;] As in Ff. One line in Rowe.

[3978] thought] thought on Hanmer.

[3979] 'Sleep ... sleep'] See note (IV).

[3980] does] doth Rowe (ed. 2).

[3981] Sleep ... care,] Put in the margin by Pope.

sleave] Steevens (Seward conj.). sleeve Ff.

[3982] death] birth Warburton. breath Becket conj.

life] grief Jennens conj.

[3983] course] source Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

[3984] feast,—] feast.— Theobald. feast. Ff.

[3985] 'Glamis ... more.'] See note (IV).

[3986] Glamis] For Glamis Seymour conj.

[3987] what] on what Keightley.

[3988] do] om. Pope.

[3989] gild] F3 F4. guild F1. guilde F2.

[3990] [Knocking....] Knocke.... Ff. Knocks.... Rowe (ed. 2).

knocking?] knocking? [Starting. Rowe.

[3991] is't] is it Theobald (ed. 2).

[3992] The ... red] Make the green ocean red— Pope, putting Thy multitudinous sea incarnadine in the margin.

[3993] The] Thy Theobald, after Pope's margin.

seas] sear F4. sea Rowe.

incarnadine] Rowe. incarnardine Ff.

[3994] green one red.] Green one Red. F4. Greene one, Red F1 F2 F3. green, One red— Johnson. green—one red. Steevens, 1778 (Murphy conj.).

[3995] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Lady. Ff.

[3996] [Knocking within.] Dyce. Knocke. Ff. Knocking without. Staunton.

[3997] To ... knocking:] Arranged as in Pope. Seven lines, ending white ... entry: ... chamber: ... deed ... constancie unattended ... knocking, in Ff.

[3998] To ... couldst!] Two lines in Pope. Four in Ff.

[3999] To know] T' unknow Hanmer.

[Knocking....] Knocke. Ff. om. Pope.

[4000] Wake ... thy] Wake Duncan with this Rowe. Wake, Duncan, with this Theobald (Davenant's version).

I would] would Pope. Ay, 'would Steevens (1793).

[4001] Scene III.] Scene continued in Rowe. Scene IV. Warburton, following Pope's margin. Scene II. Staunton.

The same.] Capell.

[4002] Porter. Here's ... cast him.] Put in the margin by Pope.

[4003] Blank verse, Maginn conj.

[4004] [Knocking within.] Knock. Ff.

[4005] he should have old] he could not have more A. Hunter.

[4006] on] in Pope. upon Maginn conj.

[4007] come in time] come in, Time Staunton. come in, farmer Anon. conj.

enow] F1. enough F2 F3 F4.

[4008] you'll] you will Rann.

[4009] in th'] i'th' Theobald (ed. 2).

Faith] I' faith Maginn conj.

[4010] who] one who Maginn conj.

[4011] bonfire] darkness. So quoted by Maginn.

[4012] Faith ... things.] Prose first by Johnson. Two lines in Ff.

[4013] of three things ... cast him.] of sleep. A. Hunter.

[4014] in a sleep] into a sleep Rowe. into sleep Mason conj. asleep Collier MS.

[4015] on me] o' me Theobald (ed. 2).

[4016] up] om. Warburton.

[4017] Scene IV. Pope.

Enter M.] Collier. After line 37 in Ff. After noble sir, line 40, in Pope. After line 39 in Capell. Re-enter M. Dyce, after line 39.

[4018] I have] I've Pope.

[4019] physics] Physicks F1 F2. Physick's F3 F4.

[4020] This] That Capell (MS. correction).

[4021] I'll ... service.] As verse first by Hanmer. Prose in Ff.

[4022] [Exit.] Capell. Exit Macduffe. Ff.

[4023] hence] From hence Steevens (1793), reading For ... king From ... so, as two lines.

He does:] om. Pope.

[4024] The ... death,] As in Rowe. Four lines, ending unruly: ... downe, ... ayre ... Death, in Ff.

[4025] And prophesying] And prophesyings Hanmer. Aunts prophesying Warburton conj.

[4026] And ... time: the] And ... time. The Ff. And, ... time, the Knight (Anon. conj.).

[4027] combustion] F1. combustions F2 F3 F4.

[4028] events New ... time: the] events, New ... time. The Ff. events. New ... time, the Johnson conj.

[4029] New ... shake.] Arranged as in Hanmer. Four lines, ending time ... Night ... fevorous ... shake, in Ff. Three in Rowe, ending time ... night, ... shake.

[4030] obscure] obscene S. Walker conj.

[4031] Re-enter M.] Re-enter M., hastily. Capell. Enter M. Ff.

[4032] Tongue ... thee.] As in Capell. One line in Ff.

[4033] Tongue nor] Or tongue or Pope. Nor tongue, nor Theobald.

[4034] Macd.] F1. Macb. F2 F3 F4.

[4035] [Exeunt ...] Ff, after awake, awake.

[4036] Banquo!] Donalbain! Hanmer. Banquo! rise! Johnson conj.

[4037] Ring the bell. [Bell rings.] Ff. Bell rings. Theobald, omitting Ring the bell.

[Bell rings.] Alarum-bell rings. Dyce.

Enter ...] Re-enter ... Dyce.

[4038] Scene V. Pope.

[4039] a] an Rowe (ed. 2).

[4040] speak, speak!] speak. Pope.

O] om. Pope.

[4041] Enter Banquo.] Enter Banquo, and Others. Capell. Re-enter Banquo. Dyce.

[4042] O ... murder'd.] As in Theobald. One line in Ff.

[4043] Dear Duff] Macduff Pope.

contradict] contract F2 F3 F4.

[4044] Re-enter ...] Enter Macbeth, Lenox, and Rosse. Ff. Re-enter Macbeth, and Lenox. Capell.

[4045] is dead] are dead Hanmer.

[4046] Is] Are Hanmer.

[4047] You are ... head,] You are, and do not know it, The spring, the head: Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 810).

[4048] know't] know it Steevens.

[4049] seem'd, had] seems, have A. Hunter.

[4050] badged] bath'd Malone conj. (withdrawn).

[4051] Upon ... them.] As in Steevens (1793). Two lines, the first ending distracted, in Ff.

[4052] no] As no Hanmer, reading As ... them as one line.

[4053] them.] them— Rowe.

[4054] amazed] and maz'd Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LIX. p. 35).

[4055] Outrun] Outran Johnson.

[4056] His ... blood] His snow-white skin streaked with his crimson blood A. Hunter.

laced] laqu'd Warburton conj.

golden] goary Pope.

[4057] Unmannerly breech'd] Unmanly reech'd Warburton. Unmanly drench'd Johnson. Unmannerly hatch'd Seward conj. In a manner lay drench'd Heath conj.

[4058] make's] make his Capell.

[Seeming to faint. Rowe.

[4059] Look ... us?] S. Walker would end the lines lady ... claim ... spoken ... hole, ... us?

[4060] [gather about her. Capell.

[4061] [Aside ...] Staunton. om. Ff.

[4062] What ... away] As in Dyce. Three lines, ending here, ... hole, ... away, in Ff. Malone ends the lines at spoken ...hole ...tears. Knight ends them at here ... hole ... tears.

[4063] Hid in] hid in F1. hid within F2 F3 F4. hidden in Jackson conj.

[4064] Upon] on Pope, reading Are ... on as one line.

Look] Look there Hanmer.

[Lady ...] Rowe. om. Ff.

[4065] Macd.] Macb. Rowe.

And] om. Pope.

[4066] [Exeunt all but ...] Hanmer. Exeunt. Ff.

[4067] What ... them:] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[4068] Which ... England.] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.

[4069] To ... bloody.] As in Rowe. Four lines in Ff, ending I ... safer: ... smiles; ... bloody.

[4070] near] near' Delius.

[4071] horse] F1. house F2 F3 F4.

[4072] Scene IV.] Scene II. Rowe. Scene VI. Pope.

Outside ...] The outside of Macbeth's Castle. Theobald.

[4073] I have] I've Pope.

[4074] Ah] Rowe. Ha Ff.

[4075] Threaten] Rowe. Threatens Ff.

his] this Theobald.

stage] strage Warburton conj. (withdrawn).

[4076] travelling] F3 F4. travailing F1 F2.

[4077] should] shall F2.

[4078] And ... certain] One line in Pope. Two in Ff.

horses] horse S. Walker conj.

[4079] their] the Theobald.

[4080] flung] F3 F4. flong F1 F2.

[4081] would make War] Divided as in Steevens (1793). The first line ends would in Ff.

[4082] mankind] man Pope.

eat] ate Keightley.

[4083] They ... Macduff.] As in Pope. Three lines, ending so: ... upon't ... Macduffe, in Ff.

[4084] Enter Macduff.] As in Ff. After the line in Johnson.

[4085] were] are Theobald (ed. 1).

suborn'd] Rowe. subborned F1 F2. suborned F3 F4.

[4086] wilt] Warburton. will Ff.

ravin up] Theobald, raven up F1. raven upon F2 F3 F4.

[4087] Thine] Its Hanmer.

life's] Pope. lives Ff.

Then 'tis] Why then it is Hanmer.

[4088] gone] gons F2.

[4089] Colme-kill] Colmeshill Rowe. Colmes-kill Johnson.

[4090] Well, may] Theobald. Well may Ff.

[4091] you] F1. you sir F2. you, sir F3 F4.

[4092] [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.