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152 A Restoration Version of Act III 

Enter Lenox and Seaton. 

Len. My former speeches have but hit your thoughts 
Which can interpret further ; Only I say 
Things have been strangely carry'd. 
Duncan was pitti'd, but he first was dead. 
And the right Valiant Banquo walk'd too late : 
Men must not walk so late: who can want Sense 
To know how monstrous it was in Nature, 
For Malcolme and Donalbain, to kill, 
Their Royal Father ; horrid Fact ! how did 
It grieve Macbeth, did he not straight 
In Pious rage the two Delinquents kill, 
That were the slaves of Drunkenness and Sleep? 
Was not that nobly done? 

Seat. Ay, and wisely too : 
For 'twou'd have anger'd any Loyal heart 
To hear the men deny it. 

Len. So that I say he has born all things well : 
And I do think that had he Duncan's Sons 
Under his power (as may please Heaven he shall not) 
They shou'd find what it were to kill a Father. 
So shou'd Flean : but peace ; I hear Macduff 
Deny'd his presence at the Feast : For which 
He lives in disgrace. Sir, can you tell 
Where he bestows himself ? 

Seat. I hear that Malcolme lives i' th' English Court, 
And is receiv'd of the most Pious Edward, 
With such Grace, that the Malevolences of Fortune 
Takes nothing from his high Respect ; thither 
Macduff is gone to beg the Holy King's 
Kind aid, to wake Northumberland 
And W r arlike Seyward, and by the help of these, 
To finish what they have so well begun. 
This report 
Do's so Exasperate the King, that he