No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 1, Scene 6
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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. | |
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DUNCAN
This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
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DUNCAN
This castle is in a pleasant place. The air is sweet and appeals
to my refined senses.
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BANQUO
This
guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
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,
The air is delicate.
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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.
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Enter LADY MACBETH
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LADY MACBETH enters. | |
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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.
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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.
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LADY MACBETH
All
our service,
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,
We rest your hermits.
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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.
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