OLD MAN.
God’s benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
[Exeunt.]
ACT III
SCENE I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
Enter Banquo.
BANQUO.
Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the Weird Women promis’d; 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, 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.
Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
And I’ll request your presence.