FIRST MURDERER
But who did bid join with us?
Early modern literature
Drama, gender & the body
Modern spelling. Stage directions omitted.
FIRST MURDERER
But who did bid join with us?
THIRD MURDERER
Macbeth.
SECOND MURDERER
He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers
Our offices and what we have to do
To the direction just.
FIRST MURDERER
Then stand with us.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace,
To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
The subject of our watch.
THIRD MURDERER
Hark! I hear horses.
BANQUO
Give us a light there, ho!
SECOND MURDERER
Then he; the rest
That are within the note of expectation
Already are i’ th’ court.
FIRST MURDERER
His horses go about.
THIRD MURDERER
Almost a mile; but he does usually,
So all men do, from to the palace gate
Make it their walk.
SECOND MURDERER
A light, a light!
THIRD MURDERER
he.
FIRST MURDERER
Stand to’t.
BANQUO
It will be rain tonight.
FIRST MURDERER
Let it come down.
BANQUO
O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
mayst revenge—O slave!
THIRD MURDERER
Who did strike out the light?
FIRST MURDERER
Was’t not the way?
THIRD MURDERER
There’s but one down: the son is fled.
SECOND MURDERER
We have lost best half of our affair.
FIRST MURDERER
Well, let’s away, and say how much is done.
Open Macbeth in the 1623 First Folio. See its words in the cloud.
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