Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants.

In the End of the fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the Play, in Scotland, and chiefly at Macbeth's

Caftle.

SKETCH

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Sc I.

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N open place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three witches, Their intention to meet Macbeth. They rife, and fly away.

Sc. II. The palace at Foris. Alarum within. Enter king, Malc. Donalb. Len. with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain, who brings an account of Macb.'s having gained the victory over the rebels; but that the Norweyans had begun a fresh assault. Exit Captain. Enter Roffe and Ang. with the news that the Thane of Cawdor had affifted the Norweyans, but that the victory declared against them. The king passes sentence of death upon the thane of Cawdor, and invests Mach. with his title.

Sc. III. An heath. Thunder. Enter the three witches. Their mischievous conjurations againft a Sailor, whose wife had refused to give one of them fome of her chesnuts. They make a charm for Macb. and Bang.

Sc. IV.

Sc. IV. To the Witches enter Mack. and Bang.

The

Witches falute Mach. as Thane of Glamis and

Cawdor, and as one who shall be king. They foretel that Banquo's children shall be kings. The Witches vanish.

Sc. V. To Macb. and Bang. enter Rofe and Ang. who bring the king's thanks to Mach. for his exploits, and inform him that he is made Thane of Cawdor.

Sc. VI. The palace. Enter king, Malcolm, Donalb. Len. and attendants. Mal. informs the king that the traitrous Thane of Cawdor is executed. Enter Mach. Banq. Roffe and Ang. The king expresses his gratitude to Macb. and Banq. for their fervices; declares his eldest fon Malcolm his heir and prince of Cumberland; and invites himself to Macb.'s caftle at Inverness. Exit Mach. to make preparations for the reception of the king. Flourish, and exeunt the reft.

Sc. VII. An apartment in Macb.'s castle at Inverness. Enter lady Macb. alone, reading a letter from Macb. which informs her of what passed between him and the Witches. Her reflections thereon. Enter messenger with tidings that the king is coming to be her guest. Exit messenger. Lady Macb. in a foliloquy difcovers her murtherous intentions against the king; and, Macb. entering, perfuades him to engage therein. Excunt.

Sc. VIII. Before Macb.'s castle. Enter king, Mal. Donalb. Banq. Len. Macd. Roffe, Ang. and attendants. The king and Bang. praise the feat for it's pleafantness. Enter lady Macbeth. After mutual compliments between the king and her, exeunt.

Sc. IX.

Sc. IX. An apartment in the castle. Enter a Sewer and servants, with dishes and service over the stage. Enter Mach. His foliloquy on the intended murther. Reflecting on the doubtfulness of fuccess, and the heinousness of the crime, he is staggered in his resolution.

Sc. X. To him enter lady Macb. who by specious arguments confirms him in the horrid design. Ex

eunt.

ACT II.

Sc. I. Macb.'s castle. Enter Bang. and Fle. with a torch before him. Talk of the darkness of the night. Enter Mach. and a fervant with a torch. Banq. presents Macb. with a diamond for lady Macb. from the king. Talk of the Witches, &c. ExBanq. and Fle.

Sc. II. Manet Macb. Soliloquy on a bloody dagger, which feeins to appear to him leading him on to the murther. A bell rings. Exit, as to kill the king.

Her foliloquy while Macb. is
Enter Mach, who informs her

Sc. III. Enter lady Macb.
about the murther.
he has done the deed. Exeunt.

Sc. IV. Enter a porter. Knocking within. The porter's humorous speech as in the character of a porter of hell-gate. The porter opens. Enter Macd. and Len. Humorous talk about drink and its effe As. Enter Mach. Macd. enquires of him, if the king be ftirring, and tells him that he (Macd.) had orders to call the king early. Mach. shews Macd.

the

the room where the king lies. Exit Macd. as to
call the king. After a short space re-enter Macd.
shocked with the fight of the murthered king.
Exeunt Mach. and Len. to the king's chamber.
Macd. orders the alarum-bell to be rung, and cries
out, Murther and treason !

Sc. V. Bell rings. To Macd. enter lady Macb. pretending
to enquire into the cause of the clamour. Enter
Banq. whom Macd. acquaints with the king's mur-
ther. Enter Mach. Len. and Roffe. Soon after
enter Malc. and Donalb. They are informed of
their father's murther. It appears from a speech
of Macb. that he, as judging the king's guards
guilty of the murther, had killed them when he
went with Len. into the king's chamber, in Sc. IV.
Lady Macb. counterfeiting a swoon, is carried out.
Exeunt all but Malc. and Donalb. They, thinking
themselves in danger, are determined to fly; and
agree that Malc. shall go to England, Donalb to
Ireland. Exeunt, taking leave.

Sc. VI. The outside of Macb.'s castle. Enter Roffe with an old man, and foon after enter Macd. Talk of the omens that preceded the king's murther; of the king's two fons, Malc. and Donalb. being fled, which lays them under the fufpicion of having fuborned the guards to murther their father; and of the likelihood of Macb.'s being invested with the sovereignty. Exeunt.

ACT III.

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