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A desert place.  \nThunder and lightning. Enter three Witches  \nFirst Witch  \nWhen shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?  \nSecond Witch  \nWhen the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.  \nThird Witch  \nThat will be ere the set of sun.  \nFirst Witch  \nWhere the place?  \nSecond Witch  \nUpon the heath.  \nThird Witch  \nThere to meet with Macbeth.  \nFirst Witch  \nI come, Graymalkin!  \nSecond Witch  \nPaddock calls.  \nThird Witch  \nAnon.  \nALL  \nFair is foul, and foul is fair:  \nHover through the fog and filthy air.  \nExeunt  \nSCENE II. A camp near Forres.  \nAlarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant  \nDUNCAN  \nWhat bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.  \nMALCOLM  \nThis is the sergeant  \nWho like a good and hardy soldier fought'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it.  \nSergeant  \nDoubtful it stood;  \nAs two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature  \nDo swarm upon him--from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:  \nFor brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--  \nDisdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;  \nWhich ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements.  \nDUNCAN  \nO valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!  \nSergeant  \nAs whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:  \nNo sooner justice had with valour arm'd Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,  \nWith furbish'd arms and new supplies of men Began a fresh assault.  \nDUNCAN  \nDismay'd not this  \nOur captains, Macbeth and Banquo?  \nSergeant  \nYes;  \nAs sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were  \nAs cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:  \nExcept they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,  \nOr memorise another Golgotha, I cannot tell.  \nBut I am faint, my gashes cry for help.  \nDUNCAN  \nSo well thy words become thee as thy wounds;  \nThey smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.  \nExit Sergeant, attended Who comes here? Enter ROSS  \nMALCOLM  \nThe worthy thane of Ross.  \nLENNOX  \nWhat a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look That seems to speak things strange.  \nROSS  \nGod save the king!  \nDUNCAN  \nWhence camest thou, worthy thane?  \nROSS  \nFrom Fife, great king;  \nWhere the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, With terrible numbers,  \nAssisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons, Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm. Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude, The victory fell on us.  \nDUNCAN  \nGreat happiness!  \nROSS  \nThat now  \nSweno, the Norways' king, craves composition: Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use.  \nDUNCAN  \nNo more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth.  \nROSS  \nI'll see it done.  \nDUNCAN  \nWhat he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. Exeunt  \nSCENE III. 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