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56 Macbeth 



[Act III 



And I'll request your presence. 

Banquo. Let your highness 

Command upon me, to the which my duties 
Are with a most indissoluble tie 
For ever knit. 

Macbeth. Ride you this afternoon? 

Banquo. Ay, my good lord. 

Macbeth. We should have else desir'd your good 
advice, 20 

Which still hath been both grave and prosperous, 
In this day's council ; but we'll take to-morrow. 
Is't far you ride? 

Banquo. As far, my lord, as will fill up the time 
'Twixt this and supper : go not my horse the better, 
I must become a borrower of the night 
For a dark hour or twain. 

Macbeth. Fail not our feast. 

Banquo. My lord, I will not. 

Macbeth. We hear our bloody cousins are 
bestow'd 
In England and in Ireland, not confessing 30 

Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers 
With strange invention ; but of that to-morrow, 
When therewithal we shall have cause of state 
Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu, 
Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with yon ? 

Banquo. Ay, my good lord : our time does call 
upon's.