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The three witches meet again on the heath and check in about what everyone's been up to. Oh, the usual witchy stuff: one was killing swine; another has been making some poor sailor's life miserable.

Sleep shall neither night nor day 20 Hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid. Though his bark cannot be lost, 25 Yet it shall be tempest-tossed. Look what I have. Drum within. Macbeth doth come. Witch 1 also came back with a pilot's thumb, a convenient rhyme for "Macbeth doth come," heralded by "a drum.

Macbeth and Banquo show up, and Macbeth mentions how this day has been both fair and foul. Where have we heard that line before? Or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me 45 By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.

Banquo notices the witches they're kind of hard to miss and speaks to them, using some variety of "You're not from here, are you? Remember, in Shakespeare's day, men played all the roles, so they wouldn't even have needed any stage make-up to pull this off. Macbeth tells them to speak, and they hail Macbeth first as Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and finally as future King. My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal.

To me you speak not. The witches hail Banquo and give him three tidbits of information: he'll be both lesser and greater than Macbeth; he won't be too happy, but he'll be happier than Macbeth; and he'll be a father to kings, though he will not be a king himself. Tell me more. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives 75 A prosperous gentleman, and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way 80 With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. Macbeth finally finds his voice. He says he's already the Thane of Glamis but it's hard to imagine becoming Thane of Cawdor, especially because the current Thane of Cawdor is alive. He demands to know where the witches got their information, but, being witches, they don't respond.

They just vanish into the foggy, filthy air. Whither are they vanished? Would they had stayed! Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

Needless to say, Banquo and Macbeth are a little weirded out by the weird sisters sudden disappearance. Banquo suggests that maybe they're tripping on some strange herb. Conversation quickly moves on to the big news about their own fates, as promised by the witches. Ross and Angus, two noblemen sent by Duncan the King , break up the party. Ross passes on that the King is pleased with Macbeth's battle successes of the day, and announces that the King would like to see him, and also that Macbeth is the new Thane of Cawdor.

Why do you dress me In borrowed robes? It's true, Angus says. Yes, the Thane is still alive, but he's being convicted of treason, so his title is up for grabs. His warning proves prescient. Act 1, Scene 6 lines Act 2, Scene 1, lines Act 3, Scene 1, lines Helen Mears is an English teacher who sits on the education committee of the British Shakespeare Association.

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