This inspires Macbeth to launch into one of Shakespeare's (and literature's) best known and oft-quoted speeches. Seyton returns to let Macbeth know his wife is dead. Thou com’st to use thy tongue: thy story quickly. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 30 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player There would have been a time for such a word.Ĭreeps in this petty pace from day to dayĪnd all our yesterdays have lighted fools 25 There was a time when such a shriek would have frightened him, but he's been involved in so much shady stuff that nothing startles him anymore. While Seyton is checking, Macbeth marvels at how steely his nerves are these days. When there's a cry from the women within the castle, Macbeth sends Seyton to find out what it's about. 15ĭireness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stirĪs life were in ’t. To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair The time has been my senses would have cooled He's still feeling pretty good, since Dunsinane is so fortified that he imagines the enemy army will die of hunger and sickness before he ever even needs to leave the castle. Many of his former forces are now fighting against him on the English side, making it difficult for him to meet the army in a glorious blaze. Macbeth (still at Dunsinane) insists that banners be hung outside the castle. We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, Were they not forced with those that should be 5 The cry is still “They come!” Our castle’s strength Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Enter Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers, with Drum and
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