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Scene III] Macbeth 45 about you ; here you'll sweat for't. [Knocking with- in.] Knock, knock ! Who's there, in tlr other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale ; 10 who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven : O, come in, equivocator. [Knocking within.] Knock, knock, knock ! Who's there ? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose : come in, tailor ; here you may roast your goose. [Knocking within.] Knock, knock; never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, 20 that go the primrose way to the everlasting bon- fire. [Knocking within.] Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter. [Opens the gate. Enter Macduff and Lennox Macduff. Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed, That you do lie so late? Porter. Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock. Macduff. Is thy master stirring? 1-23. Is the horror of the situation emphasized or re- lieved by the Porter scene? See De Quincey's essay on The Knockinq at the Gate in Macbeth.
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