SCENE III.
The same. A Park: Gate leading to the Palace. Enter three Murtherers.
1. M.
But who did bid thee join with us?
3. M.
Macbeth.
2. M.
He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers
Our offices, and what we have to do,
To the direction just.
1. M.
Then stand with us.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated traveller note apace,
To gain the timely inn; and near note approaches
The subject of our watch.
3. M.
Hark! I hear horses.
Ban. [within.]
Give us a light there, ho!
2. M.
'Tis he note; the rest,
That are within the note of expectation,
Already are i'the court.
1. M.
His horses go about.
3. M.
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; Servant, with a Torch, before them.
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&clquo;2. M.
&clquo;A light, a light!&crquo;
&clquo;3. M.
&clquo;'Tis he.&crquo;
&clquo;1. M.
&clquo;Stand to't.&crquo;
Ban.
It will be rain to-night.
1. M.
Let it come down.
[assaulting him.
Ban.
O, treachery!—Fly, good Fleance note, fly, fly, fly;
Thou may'st revenge.—O slave!
[dies. Fleance, and Servant, fly.
3. M.
Who did strike out the light?
1. M.
Was't not the way?
3. M.
There's but one down; the son is fled.
2. M.
We have lost
Best half of our affair.
1. M.
Well, let's away,
And say how much is done.
[Exeunt.
Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].
