Page 2159 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

What concern they?
The general cause, or is it a fee-grief
Due to some single breast?

ROSS
No mind that’s honest
But in it shares some woe, though the main part

Pertains to you alone.

MACDUFF
If it be mine,
Keep it not from me; quickly let me have it. [200]

ROSS
Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,

Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
That ever yet they heard.

MACDUFF
Humh! I guess at it.

ROSS
Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner
Were on the quarry of these murdered deer

To add the death of you.

MALCOLM
Merciful heaven!
What, man! Ne’er pull your hat upon your brows.
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak

Whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break. [210]

MACDUFF
My children too?

ROSS