Macbeth Act 3

Macbeth Act 3

1. I fear /Thou play’dst most foully for it

2. My duties / Are with a most indissoluble tie / Forever knit

3. “Fail not our feast.” Banquo: “My lord, I will not.

4. Filling their hearers / With strange invention.

5. To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo / Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature / Reigns that which would be feared

6. There is none but he / Whose being I do fear

7. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.

8. For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; / For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered.

9. So, come Fate into the list / And champion me to the utterance.

10. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.

11. Though I could / With barefaced power sweep him from my sight.

12. For it must be done tonight / And something from the palace.

13. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, / If it find Heaven, must find it out tonight.

14. Nought’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content; / Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy

15. Things without all remedy / Should be without regard – what’s done is done.