ACT 3
Scene 1

...th’ utterance.—Who’s there?
Enter Servant and two Murderers.

...we spoke together?
It was, so please your Highness.

...“Thus did Banquo.”
You made it known to us.

...beggared yours forever?
We are men, my liege.

...spite the world.
And I another
So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it or be rid on ’t.


...was your enemy.
True, my lord.

...you command us.
Though our lives—

...to you anon.
We are resolved, my lord.

...straight. Abide within.
Murderers exit.

Scene 3

...go with me.
Enter three Murderers.
But who did bid thee join with us?

...the direction just.
Then stand with us.—
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Now spurs the lated traveler apace
To gain the timely inn, and near approaches
The subject of our watch.


...i’ th’ court.
His horses go about.

...light! ’Tis he.
Stand to ’t.

...be rain tonight.
Let it come down!
The three Murderers attack.

...out the light?
Was ’t not the way?

...of our affair.
Well, let’s away and say how much is done.
They exit.

Scene 4

...they are welcome.
Enter First Murderer to the door.

...upon thy face.
’Tis Banquo’s then.

...Is he dispatched?
My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him.

...art the nonpareil.
Most royal sir, Fleance is ’scaped.

...fears.—But Banquo’s safe?
Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.


...hear ourselves again.
Murderer exits.