Enter Macduff and Lennox.
Macd. Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,[4002] 20
That you do lie so late?[4002]
Port. Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock:[4002][4012]
and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.[4002][4012][4013]
Macd. What three things does drink especially provoke?[4002]
Port. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery,[4002]25
sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire,[4002]
but it takes away the performance: therefore much drink[4002]
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes[4002]
him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off;[4002]
it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand[4002] 30
to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a[4002][4014]
sleep, and giving him the lie, leaves him.[4002][4014]
Macd. I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.[4002]
Port. That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me: but I[4002][4015]
requited him for his lie, and, I think, being too strong for[4002] 35
him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a[4002][4016]
shift to cast him.[4002]
Macd. Is thy master stirring?
Enter Macbeth.[4017]
Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.