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ACT I SCENE II A base near the Atlantic ocean.
[Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant ]
DUNCAN What flaming  man is that? He can report,
As archaic  by his plight, of the revolt.
the newest state.
MALCOLM This is the sergeant
 

 

 

Sergent:

 Who like a great and good  soldier fought.

against my captivity. hail, brave friend! say to the lord the knowledge of the broil

doubt is understood

as two well swimmers, that do cling all together and choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald worthy to be a rebel for to that

the multiplying villainies of nature
Do swarm upon him–from the western isles

 

 

 
Of kerns is supplied; 15
And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
but all’s too frail:
For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name–
Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel
Which smoked with bloody execution, 20
Like valour’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix’d his head upon our battlements. 25
DUNCAN O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
Sergeant as whence the sun gains its reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem’d to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: 30
No sooner justice had with valour arm’d
Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage
With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault. 35
DUNCAN Dismay’d not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
Sergent Yes;
As sparows eagles of hare of the lion
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Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.
captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.