Page 2112 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Those that Macbeth hath slain.

ROSS
Alas the day!
What good could they pretend?

MACDUFF
They were suborned.
Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons,

Are stolen away and fled, which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.

ROSS
’Gainst nature still!
Thriftless ambition that will raven up

Thine own life’s means! − Then ’tis most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth? [30]

MACDUFF
He is already named and gone to Scone
To be invested.

ROSS
Where is Duncan’s body?

MACDUFF
Carried to Colmekill,

The sacred storehouse of his predecessors
And guardian of their bones.

ROSS
Will you to Scone?

MACDUFF
No, cousin, I’ll to Fife.

ROSS