Ban. All's well.[3934]
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:[3935] 20
To you they have show'd some truth.[3936]
Macb. I think not of them:
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,[3937]
If you would grant the time.
Ban. At your kind'st leisure.[3938]
Macb. If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis[3939][3940]25
It shall make honour for you.[3940]
Ban. So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.
Macb. Good repose the while!
Ban. Thanks, sir: the like to you![3941] 30
[Exeunt Banquo and Fleance.[3942]
Macb. Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [Exit Servant.[3943]
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. 35
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?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable 40
As this which now I draw.[3944][3945]
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;[3944][3945]
And such an instrument I was to use.[3944][3945]
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,[3945]
Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still;[3945] 45
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,[3946]
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world[3947]
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 50
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates[3948]
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder,[3949]
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,[3950]
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design[3951] 55
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,[3952]
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear[3953]
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,[3954]
And take the present horror from the time,[3955]
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:[3955][3956] 60
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.[3957]
[A bell rings.