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Attend his majesty!

LADY
A kind good-night to all! [120]
Exeunt Lords.

MACBETH
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;

Augurs and understood relations have
By maggot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth
The secret’st man of blood. What is the night?

LADY
Almost at odds with morning, which is which.

MACBETH
How sayst thou, that Macduff denies his person

At our great bidding?

LADY
Did you send to him, sir?

MACBETH
I hear it by the way. But I will send.
There’s not a one of them, but in his house [130]
I keep a servant fee’d. I will tomorrow −

And betimes I will − to the Weird Sisters.
More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know
By the worst means the worst. For mine own good
All causes shall give way. I am in blood

Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;
Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.

LADY