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40 Macbeth [Act II 

Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, 
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear 
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, 
And take the present horror from the time, 
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he 

lives : 
W'ocds to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. 

[A bell rings. 
I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. 
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell 
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. [Exit. 

The First 
Murder Scene 

Scene II. The same 

Enter Lady Macbeth 

Lady Macbeth. That which hath made them 

drunk hath made me bold; 
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. 

Hark! Peace! 
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, 
Which gives the stern 'st good-night. He is about it : 
The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms 
Do mock their charge with snores : I have drugg'd 

their possets, 
That death and nature do contend about them, 
Whether they live or die. 

Macbeth. [Within'] Who's there ? what, ho ! 



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