Page 2166 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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ANGUS
Near Birnan Wood
Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming.
CATHNESS
Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?
LENNOX
For certain, sir, he is not. I have a file
Of all the gentry: there is Seyward’s son
And many unrough youths that event now [10]
Protest their first of manhood.
MENTETH
What does the tyrant?
CATHNESS
Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies.
Some say he’s mad. Others, that lesser hate him,
Do call it valiant fury; but for certain
He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule.
ANGUS
Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach.
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title [20]
Hang loose about him like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
MENTETH
Who then shall blame
His pestered senses to recoil and start,
When all that is within him does condemn
Itself for being there?
