Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. King Duncan has just been murdered, and Macbeth is now king. Banquo remembers the witches’ prophecy and wonders whether Macbeth played a part in Duncan’s murder.Banquo. Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,As the weird women promis’d; and, I fear,Thou play’dst most foully for ’t; yet it was saidIt should not stand in thy posterity,But that myself should be the root and fatherOf many kings. If there come truth from them,—As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine,—Why, by the verities on thee made good,May they not be my oracles as well,And set me up in hope? But, hush! no more.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are preparing for a feast. Macbeth is king, but he cannot forget the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s sons, not his own, will succeed him.Macbeth. O! full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife;Thou know’st that Banquo and his Fleance lives.Lady Macbeth. But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne.Macbeth. There’s comfort yet; they are assailable;Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flownHis cloister’d flight, ere, to black Hecate’s summonsThe shard-borne beetle with his drowsy humsHath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be doneA deed of dreadful note.