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ACT I

SCENE I. A desert place.

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

SCENE II. A camp near Forres.

Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant

SCENE III. A heath near Forres.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches

To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?

Enter ROSS and ANGUS

SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.

Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants

SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.

Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter

SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.

Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants

SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.

Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH

ACT II

SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.

Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him

Thanks, sir: the like to you!

Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE

SCENE II. The same.

Enter LADY MACBETH

This is a sorry sight.

Looking on his hands

SCENE III. The same.

Knocking within. Enter a Porter

Well contented.

Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.

SCENE IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.

Enter ROSS and an old Man

ACT III

SCENE I. Forres. The palace.

Enter BANQUO

SCENE II. The palace.

Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant

SCENE III. A park near the palace.

Enter three Murderers

A light, a light!

Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch

Let it come down.

They set upon BANQUO

SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.

A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants

May't please your highness sit.

The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place

Our duties, and the pledge.

Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO

A kind good night to all!

Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH

SCENE V. A Heath.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE

SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.

Enter LENNOX and another Lord

ACT IV

SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;

Come like shadows, so depart!

A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following

SCENE II. Fife. Macduff's castle.

Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS

Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!

Enter a Messenger

SCENE III. England. Before the King's palace.

Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF

ACT V

SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.

Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman

SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane.

Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers

SCENE III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle.

Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants

SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood.

Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching

SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.

Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours

SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle.

Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs

SCENE VII. Another part of the field.

Alarums. Enter MACBETH

SCENE VIII. Another part of the field.

Enter MACBETH