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Scene VI] Macbeth 75 

Is mortals' chiefest enemy. 

[Music and a song. 
Hark ! I am call'd ; my little spirit, see, 
Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. [Exit. 

[Song zmthin : 'Come aivay, come away,' etc. 
First Witch. Come, let's make haste ; she'll soon 
be back again. [Exeunt. 

The First Counter- 
plot Scene. 

Scene VI. Forres. The palace 
Enter Lennox and another Lord 

Lennox. My former speeches nave but hit your 

thoughts, 
Which can interpret farther : only I say 
Things have been strangely borne. The gracious 

Duncan 
Was pitied of Macbeth : marry, he was dead : 
And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late ; 
Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd, 
For Fleance fled : men must not walk too late. 
Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous 
It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain 
To kill their gracious father ? damned fact ! 10 

How it did grieve Macbeth ! did he not straight 
In pious rage, the two delinquents tear, 
That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep ? 
Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;