No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Act 2, Scene 4, Page 2
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How goes the world, sir, now?
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How are things going now?
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MACDUFF
Why,
see you not?
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MACDUFF
Can’t you see for yourself?
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ROSS
Is ’t known who did this more than bloody deed?
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ROSS
Does anyone know who committed this horrible crime?
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MACDUFF
Those that Macbeth hath slain.
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MACDUFF
The servants Macbeth killed.
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ROSS
Alas,
the day!
What good could they pretend?
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ROSS
It’s too bad he killed them. What good would it have done
those men to kill Duncan?
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MACDUFF
They
were suborned.
Malcolm and Donalbain, the king’s two sons,
Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.
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MACDUFF
They were paid to betray their master. Malcolm and Donalbain, the
king’s two sons, have run away and fled, which makes them
the prime suspects.
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ROSS
'Gainst nature still!
Thriftless ambition, that will raven up
Thine own lives' means! Then ’tis most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
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ROSS
Everything about this is unnatural! What a stupid ambition,
causing a son to kill the father who supports him. Then it looks
like Macbeth will become king.
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MACDUFF
He is already named and gone to Scone
To be invested.
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MACDUFF
He has already been named king and has left for Scone to be
crowned.
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ROSS
Where is Duncan’s body?
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ROSS
Where is Duncan’s body?
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MACDUFF
Carried to Colmekill,
The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
And guardian of their bones.
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MACDUFF
It was carried to Colmekill to be placed in the tomb of his
ancestors, where their bones are kept safe.
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ROSS
Will
you to Scone?
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ROSS
Are you going to Scone?
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MACDUFF
No, cousin, I’ll to Fife.
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MACDUFF
No, cousin, I’m going to Fife.
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ROSS
Well, I will thither.
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ROSS
Well, I’ll go to Scone.
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