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FIRST WITCH

He will not be commanded. Here’s another
More potent than the first.

Thunder. Second Apparition, a Bloody Child.

SECOND APPARITION
Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth!

MACBETH
Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.

SECOND APPARITION
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn

The power of man; for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth. [80]
He descends.

MACBETH
Then live Macduff; what need I fear of thee?

But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live;
That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
And sleep in spite of thunder.

Thunder. Third Apparition, a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand.
What is this
That rises like the issue of a king,
And wears upon his baby brow the round
And top of sovereignty?

ALL

Listen, but speak not to’t.

THIRD APPARITION

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are; [90]
Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until