Page 2096 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

BANQUO

What, sir, not yet at rest? The King’s a-bed.
He hath been in unusual pleasure,
And sent forth great largess to your offices.

This diamond he greets your wife withal
By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up
In measureless content.

MACBETH
Being unprepared
Our will became the servant to defect,

Which else should free have wrought.

BANQUO

All’s well.
I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters. [20]
To you they have showed some truth.

MACBETH
I think not of them.

Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time.

BANQUO
At your kind’st leisure.

MACBETH
If you shall cleave to my consent when ’tis,

It shall make honour for you.

BANQUO

So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,

I shall be counselled.