No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth: Act 1, scene vi

hautboys and torches. Enter KING DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and attendants

The stage is lit by torches. Hautboys play. DUNCAN enters, together with MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and their attendants.

	DUNCAN
	This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
	Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
	Unto our gentle senses.

DUNCAN

This castle is in a pleasant place. The air is sweet and appeals to my refined senses.

	BANQUO
	This guest of summer,
	The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
5	By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
	Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,
	Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
	Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.
	Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
10	The air is delicate.

BANQUO

The fact that this summer bird, the house martin, builds his nests here proves how inviting the breezes are. There isn't a single protrusion in the castle walls where these birds haven't built their hanging nests to sleep and breed. I've noticed that they always like to settle and mate where the air is the nicest.

Enter LADY MACBETH

LADY MACBETH enters.

	DUNCAN
	See, see, our honored hostess!
	The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
	Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
	How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,
	And thank us for your trouble.

DUNCAN

Look, here comes our honored hostess! Sometimes the love my subjects bring me is inconvenient, but I still accept it as love. In doing so, I'm teaching you to thank me for the incovenience I'm causing you by being here, because it comes from my love to you.

	LADY MACBETH
	All our service,
15	In every point twice done and then done double,
	Were poor and single business to contend
	Against those honors deep and broad wherewith
	Your majesty loads our house. For those of old,
	And the late dignities heaped up to them,
20	We rest your hermits.

LADY MACBETH

Everything we're doing for you, even if it were doubled and then doubled again, is nothing compared to the honors you have brought to our family. We gladly welcome you as our guests, with gratitude for both the honors you've given us before and the new honors you've just given us.