© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved.NOTESIn restless ecstasy.^6 Duncan is in his grave;
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy,^7 nothing,
Can touch him further.
Lady Macbeth. Come on.
Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.
Macbeth. So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:
Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;
Present him eminence,^8 both with eye and tongue:
Unsafe the while, that we must lave^9
Our honors in these flattering streams
And make our faces vizards^10 to our hearts.
Disguising what they are.
Lady Macbeth. You must leave this.
Macbeth. O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
Lady Macbeth. But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne.^11
Macbeth. There’s comfort yet; they are assailable.
Then be thou jocund.^12 Ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons
The shard-borne^13 beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
Lady Macbeth. What’s to be done?
Macbeth. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,^14
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling^15 night,
Scarf up^16 the tender eye of pitiful day,
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond^17
Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th’ rooky^18 wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
Thou marvel’st at my words: but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill:
So, prithee, go with me. [Exit.]⌘ ⌘ ⌘Scene iii • Near the palace.
[Enter Three Murderers.]First Murderer. But who did bid thee join with us?- ecstasy frenzy.
- Malice... levy civil and foreign 25
war.
30- Present him eminence Honor
him. - Unsafe... lave We are unsafe
as long as we have to wash. - vizards (VIHZ uhrdz) masks.
35- nature’s... eterne Nature’s
lease is not eternal. - jocund (JOK uhnd) cheerful;
jovial.^40 - shard-borne borne on scaly
wings. - chuck term of endearment. 45
- seeling eye-closing. Falconers
sometimes sewed a hawk’s
eyes closed in order to train it. - Scarf up blindfold.
- great bond between Banquo
and fate. - rooky full of rooks, or crows.
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PERSONALIZE FOR LEARNING
Strategic Support
Sequencing As students begin Scene iii,
review the action of the Act to this point and
make certain that students understand what
is happening. Then have students practice
organizing events sequentially. Have studentsmake a timeline of events in the play, consulting
classmates as necessary to confirm plot order.
Suggest that they leave room to add more as they
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