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Scene II] Macbeth 15 

The multiplying villanies of nature 

Do swarm upon him — from the western isles 

Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied ; 

And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, 

Show'd like a rebel's whore : but all's too weak ; 

For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name — 

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel 

Which smoked with bloody execution, 

Like valour's minion, 

Carved out his passage till he faced the slave ; 20 

Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to 

him, 
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, 
And fix'd his head upon our battlements. 

Duncan. O valiant cousin ! worthy gentleman ! 

Sergeant. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection 
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, 
So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to 

come 
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark : 
No sooner justice had, with valour arm'd, 
Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels, 30 
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage, 
W 7 ith furbish'd arms and new supplies of men, 
Began a fresh assault. 

Duncan. Dismay'd not this 

Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo ? 

Collect evidence proving Macbeth to be the tragic hero.