SCENE III.
The Same. A Park or Lawn, with a Gate leading to the Palace.
Enter Three Murderers.
1 Mur.
But who did bid thee join with us6 note
?
3 Mur.
Macbeth.
2 Mur.
He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers
Our offices, and what we have to do,
To the direction just.
1 Mur.
Then stand with us.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated7 note
traveller apace,
To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
The subject of our watch.
3 Mur.
Hark! I hear horses.
Ban. [Within.]
Give us a light there, ho!
2 Mur.
Then it is he; the rest
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That are within the note of expectation8 note,
Already are i' the court9 note
.
1 Mur.
His horses go about.
3 Mur.
Almost a mile: but he does usually,
So all men do, from hence to the palace gate
Make it their walk.
Enter Banquo and Fleance, a Servant with a torch preceding them.
2 Mur.
A light, a light!
3 Mur.
'Tis he.
1 Mur.
Stand to't.
Ban.
It will be rain to-night.
1 Mur.
Let it come down1 note
.
[Assaults Banquo.
Ban.
O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly;
Thou may'st revenge.—O slave!
[Dies. Fleance and Servant escape2 note.
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3 Mur.
Who did strike out the light?
1 Mur.
Was't not the way3 note
?
3 Mur.
There's but one down; the son is fled.
2 Mur.
We have lost best half of our affair.
1 Mur.
Well, let's away, and say how much is done.
[Exeunt.
James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
