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Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have just finished giving a banquet following Macbeth’s coronation. They are discussing the future of their kingdom and their rule.Macbeth. It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;Augurs and understood relations haveBy maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forthThe secret’st man of blood. What is the night?

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. [Aside.] Two truths are told,As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme. [To ROSS and ANGUS.] I thank you, gentlemen.[Aside.] This supernatural solicitingCannot be ill, cannot be good; if ill,Why hath it given me earnest of success,Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:If good, why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hairAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature? Present fearsAre less than horrible imaginings;My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of man that functionIs smother’d in surmise, and nothing isBut what is not. Banquo. Look, how our partner’s rapt. Macbeth. [Aside.] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,Without my stir.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth. The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress meIn borrow’d robes?Angus. Who was the thane lives yet;But under heavy judgment bears that lifeWhich he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’dWith those of Norway, or did line the rebelWith hidden help [and] vantage, or that with bothHe labour’d in his country’s [wreck], I know not;But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d,Have overthrown him.

Read the passage from act 1, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. [Aside.] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a stepOn which I must fall down, or else o’er-leap,For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires;The eye wink at the hand; yet let that beWhich the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. Great happiness! Ross. That nowSweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition;Nor would we deign him burial of his menTill he disbursed, at Saint Colme’s Inch,Ten thousand dollars to our general use.