 苏格兰国王邓肯的表弟麦克白将军，为国王平叛和抵御入侵立功归来，路上遇到三个女巫。女巫对他说了一些预言和隐语，说他将进爵为王，但他并无子嗣能继承王位，反而是同僚班柯将军 的后代要做王。麦克白是有野心的英雄，他在夫人的怂恿下谋杀邓肯，做了国王。为掩人耳目和防止他人夺位，他一步步害死了邓肯的侍卫，害死了班柯，害死了贵族麦克德夫的妻子和小孩。恐惧和猜疑使麦克白心里越来越有鬼，也越来越冷酷。麦克白夫人神经失常而死，麦克白无一丝难过。在众叛亲离的情况下，麦克白面对邓肯之子和他请来的英格兰援军的围攻，落得削首的下场。 麦克白一出场即心怀异志，弑王篡位，为了巩固王位，又残暴屠杀人民，使全国血流成河，置社会于混乱，陷人民于水火，可谓与理查三世是同样的暴君。这样的暴君，其痛苦与覆亡乃罪有应得。 |
| SCENE I. A desert place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches First Witch When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch Where the place? Second Witch Upon the heath. Third Witch There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch I come, Graymalkin! Second Witch Paddock calls. Third Witch Anon. ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. Exeunt 第一幕 第一场 荒原 雷电。三女巫上。 女巫甲 何时姊妹再相逢， 雷电轰轰雨蒙蒙？ 女巫乙 且等烽烟静四陲， 败军高奏凯歌回。 女巫丙 半山夕照尚含辉。 女巫甲 何处相逢？ 女巫乙 在荒原。 女巫丙 共同去见麦克白。 女巫甲 我来了，狸猫精。 女巫乙 癞蛤蟆叫我了。 女巫丙 来也。① 三女巫（合）美即丑恶丑即美， 翱翔毒雾妖云里。（同下。） |
| SCENE II. A camp near Forres. Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. MALCOLM This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. Sergeant Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald-- Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him--from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-- Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, 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. DUNCAN O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sergeant As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: 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. DUNCAN Dismay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sergeant Yes; As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorise another Golgotha, I cannot tell. But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. DUNCAN So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons. Exit Sergeant, attended Who comes here? Enter ROSS MALCOLM The worthy thane of Ross. LENNOX What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look That seems to speak things strange. ROSS God save the king! DUNCAN Whence camest thou, worthy thane? ROSS From Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons, Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm. Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude, The victory fell on us. DUNCAN Great happiness! ROSS That now Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition: Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. DUNCAN No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. ROSS I'll see it done. DUNCAN What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. Exeunt 第二场 福累斯附近的营地 内号角声。邓肯、马尔康、道纳本、列诺克斯及侍从等上，与一流血之军曹相 遇。 邓肯 那个流血的人是谁？ 看他的样子，也许可以向我们报告关于叛乱的最近 的消息。 马尔康 这就是那个奋勇苦战帮助我冲出敌人重围的军曹。祝福，勇敢的朋友！ 把你离开战场以前的战况报告王上。 军曹 双方还在胜负未决之中； 正像两个精疲力竭的游泳者，彼此扭成一团， 显不出他们的本领来。那残暴的麦克唐华德不愧为一个叛徒，因为无数奸恶的天性 都丛集于他的一身；他已经征调了西方各岛上的轻重步兵，命运也像娼妓一样，有 意向叛徒卖弄风情，助长他的罪恶的气焰。可是这一切都无能为力，因为英勇的麦 克白——真称得上一声“英勇”——不以命运的喜怒为意，挥舞着他的血腥的宝剑， 像个煞星似的一路砍杀过去，直到了那奴才的面前，也不打个躬，也不通一句话， 就挺剑从他的肚脐上刺了进去，把他的胸膛划破，一直划到下巴上；他的头已经割 下来挂在我们的城楼上了。 邓肯 啊，英勇的表弟！尊贵的壮士！ 军曹 天有不测风云，从那透露曙光的东方偏卷来了无情的风暴，可怕的雷雨； 我们正在兴高彩烈的时候，却又遭遇了重大的打击。听着，陛下，听着：当正义凭 着勇气的威力正在驱逐敌军向后溃退的时候，挪威国君看见有机可乘，调了一批甲 械精良的生力军又向我们开始一次新的猛攻。 邓肯 我们的将军们，麦克白和班柯有没有因此而气馁？ 军曹 是的，要是麻雀能使怒鹰退却、兔子能把雄狮吓走的话。实实在在地说， 他们就像两尊巨炮，满装着双倍火力的炮弹，愈发愈猛，向敌人射击；瞧他们的神 气，好像拚着浴血负创，非让尸骸铺满原野，决不罢手——可是我的气力已经不济 了，我的伤口需要马上医治。 邓肯 你的叙述和你的伤口一样， 都表现出一个战士的精神。来，把他送到军 医那儿去。（侍从扶军曹下。） 洛斯上。 邓肯 谁来啦？ 马尔康 尊贵的洛斯爵士。 列诺克斯 他的眼睛里露出多么慌张的神色！ 好像要说些什么意想不到的事情 似的。 洛斯 上帝保佑吾王！ 邓肯 爵士，你从什么地方来？ 洛斯 从费辅来， 陛下；挪威的旌旗在那边的天空招展，把一阵寒风搧进了我 们人民的心里。挪威国君亲自率领了大队人马，靠着那个最奸恶的叛徒考特爵士的 帮助，开始了一场惨酷的血战；后来麦克白披甲戴盔，和他势均力敌，刀来熗往， 奋勇交锋，方才挫折了他的凶焰；胜利终于属我们所有。—— 邓肯 好大的幸运！ 洛斯 现在史威诺， 挪威的国王，已经向我们求和了；我们责令他在圣戈姆小 岛上缴纳一万块钱充入我们的国库，否则不让他把战死的将士埋葬。 邓肯 考特爵士再也不能骗取我的信任了， 去宣布把他立即处死，他的原来的 爵位移赠麦克白。 洛斯 我就去执行陛下的旨意。 邓肯 他所失去的，也就是尊贵的麦克白所得到的。（同下。） |
| SCENE III. A heath near Forres. Thunder. Enter the three Witches First Witch Where hast thou been, sister? Second Witch Killing swine. Third Witch Sister, where thou? First Witch A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:-- 'Give me,' quoth I: 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do. Second Witch I'll give thee a wind. First Witch Thou'rt kind. Third Witch And I another. First Witch I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I' the shipman's card. I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid: Weary se'nnights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine: Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tost. Look what I have. Second Witch Show me, show me. First Witch Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Drum within Third Witch A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. ALL The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! the charm's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen. BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her chappy finger laying Upon her skinny lips: you should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! Second Witch All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! Third Witch All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! BANQUO Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? 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. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate. First Witch Hail! Second Witch Hail! Third Witch Hail! First Witch Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Second Witch Not so happy, yet much happier. Third Witch Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! First Witch Banquo and Macbeth, all hail! MACBETH Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more: By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives, 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 With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. Witches vanish BANQUO The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd? MACBETH Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd! BANQUO Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner? MACBETH Your children shall be kings. BANQUO You shall be king. MACBETH And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so? BANQUO To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here? Enter ROSS and ANGUS ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth, The news of thy success; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight, His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or his: silenced with that, In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day, He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, Strange images of death. As thick as hail Came post with post; and every one did bear Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence, And pour'd them down before him. ANGUS We are sent To give thee from our royal master thanks; Only to herald thee into his sight, Not pay thee. ROSS And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine. BANQUO What, can the devil speak true? MACBETH The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrow'd robes? ANGUS Who was the thane lives yet; But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined With those of Norway, or did line the rebel With hidden help and vantage, or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; But treasons capital, confess'd and proved, Have overthrown him. MACBETH [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind. To ROSS and ANGUS Thanks for your pains. To BANQUO Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me Promised no less to them? BANQUO That trusted home Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen. Aside Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. BANQUO Look, how our partner's rapt. MACBETH [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. BANQUO New horrors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. MACBETH [Aside] Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. BANQUO Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. MACBETH Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains Are register'd where every day I turn The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king. Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time, The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other. BANQUO Very gladly. MACBETH Till then, enough. Come, friends. Exeunt第三场 荒原 雷鸣。三女巫上。 女巫甲 妹妹，你从哪儿来？ 女巫乙 我刚杀了猪来。 女巫丙 姊姊，你从哪儿来？ 女巫甲 一个水手的妻子坐在那儿吃栗子， 啃呀啃呀啃呀地啃着。“给我吃一 点，”我说。“滚开，妖巫！”那个吃鱼吃肉的贱人喊起来了。她的丈夫是“猛虎 号”的船长，到阿勒坡去了；可是我要坐在一张筛子里追上他去，像一头没有尾巴 的老鼠，瞧我的，瞧我的，瞧我的吧。 女巫乙 我助你一阵风。 女巫甲 感谢你的神通。 女巫丙 我也助你一阵风。 女巫甲 刮到西来刮到东。 到处狂风吹海立， 浪打行船无休息； 终朝终夜不得安， 骨瘦如柴血色干； 一年半载海上漂， 气断神疲精力销； 他的船儿不会翻， 暴风雨里受苦难。 瞧我有些什么东西？ 女巫乙 给我看，给我看。 女巫甲 这是一个在归途覆舟殒命的舵工的拇指。（内鼓声。） 女巫丙 鼓声！鼓声！麦克白来了。 三女巫（合）手携手，三姊妹， 沧海高山弹指地， 朝飞暮返任游戏。 姊三巡，妹三巡， 三三九转蛊方成。 麦克白及班柯上。 麦克白 我从来没有见过这样阴郁而又光明的日子。 班柯 到福累斯还有多少路？ 这些是什么人，形容这样枯瘦，服装这样怪诞， 不像是地上的居民，可是却在地上出现？你们是活人吗？你们能不能回答我们的问 题？好像你们懂得我的话，每一个人都同时把她满是皱纹的手指按在她的干枯的嘴 唇上。你们应当是女人，可是你们的胡须却使我不敢相信你们是女人。 麦克白 你们要是能够讲话，告诉我们你们是什么人？ 女巫甲 万福，麦克白！祝福你，葛莱密斯爵士！ 女巫乙 万福，麦克白！祝福你，考特爵士！ 女巫丙 万福，麦克白，未来的君王！ 班柯 将军， 您为什么这样吃惊，好像害怕这种听上去很好的消息似的？用真 理的名义回答我，你们到底是幻象呢，还是果真像你们所显现的那样生物？你们向 我的高贵的同伴致敬，并且预言他未来的尊荣和远大的希望，使他仿佛听得出了神； 可是你们却没有对我说一句话。要是你们能够洞察时间所播的种子，知道哪一颗会 长成，哪一颗不会长成，那么请对我说吧；我既不乞讨你们的恩惠，也不惧怕你们 的憎恨。 女巫甲 祝福！ 女巫乙 祝福！ 女巫丙 祝福！ 女巫甲 比麦克白低微，可是你的地位在他之上。 女巫乙 不像麦克白那样幸运，可是比他更有福。 女巫丙 你虽然不是君王，你的子孙将要君临一国。万福，麦克白和班柯！ 女巫甲 班柯和麦克白，万福！ 麦克白 且慢， 你们这些闪烁其辞的预言者，明白一点告诉我。西纳尔②死了 以后，我知道我已经晋封为葛莱密斯爵士；可是怎么会做起考特爵士来呢？考特爵 士现在还活着，他的势力非常煊赫；至于说我是未来的君王，那正像说我是考特爵 士一样难于置信。说，你们这种奇怪的消息是从什么地方得来的？为什么你们要在 这荒凉的旷野用这种预言式的称呼使我们止步？说，我命令你们。（三女巫隐去。） 班柯 水上有泡沫， 土地也有泡沫，这些便是大地上的泡沫。她们消失到什么 地方去了？ 麦克白 消失在空气之中，好像是有形体的东西，却像呼吸一样融化在风里了。 我倒希望她们再多留一会儿。 班柯 我们正在谈论的这些怪物， 果然曾经在这儿出现吗？还是因为我们误食 了令人疯狂的草根，已经丧失了我们的理智？ 麦克白 您的子孙将要成为君王。 班柯 您自己将要成为君王。 麦克白 而且还要做考特爵士；她们不是这样说的吗？ 班柯 正是这样说的。谁来啦？ 洛斯及安格斯上。 洛斯 麦克白， 王上已经很高兴地接到了你的胜利的消息；当他听见你在这次 征讨叛逆的战争中所表现的英勇的勋绩的时候，他简直不知道应当惊异还是应当赞 叹，在这两种心理的交相冲突之下，他快乐得说不出话来。他又得知你在同一天之 内，又在雄壮的挪威大军的阵地上出现，不因为你自己亲手造成的死亡的惨象而感 到些微的恐惧。报信的人像密雹一样接踵而至，异口同声地在他的面前称颂你的保 卫祖国的大功。 安格斯 我们奉王上的命令前来， 向你传达他的慰劳的诚意；我们的使命只是 迎接你回去面谒王上，不是来酬答你的功绩。 洛斯 为了向你保证他将给你更大的尊荣起见， 他叫我替你加上考特爵士的称 号；祝福你，最尊贵的爵士！这一个尊号是属于你的了。 班柯 什么！魔鬼居然会说真话吗？ 麦克白 考特爵士现在还活着；为什么你们要替我穿上借来的衣服？ 安格斯 原来的考特爵士现在还活着，可是因为他自取其咎，犯了不赦的重罪， 在无情的判决之下，将要失去他的生命。他究竟有没有和挪威人公然联合，或者曾 经给叛党秘密的援助，或者同时用这两种手段来图谋颠覆他的祖国，我还不能确实 知道；可是他的叛国的重罪，已经由他亲口供认，并且有了事实的证明，使他遭到 了毁灭的命运。 麦克白（旁白）葛莱密斯，考特爵士；最大的尊荣还在后面。（向洛斯、安格 斯）谢谢你们的跋涉。（向班柯）您不希望您的子孙将来做君王吗？方才她们称呼 我做考特爵士，不同时也许给你的子孙莫大的尊荣吗？ 班柯 您要是果然完全相信了她们的话， 也许做了考特爵士以后，还渴望想把 王冠攫到手里。可是这种事情很奇怪；魔鬼为了要陷害我们起见，往往故意向我们 说真话，在小事情上取得我们的信任，然后在重要的关头我们便会堕入他的圈套。 两位大人，让我对你们说句话。 麦克白（旁白）两句话已经证实，这好比是美妙的开场白，接下去就是帝王登 场的正戏了。（向洛斯、安格斯）谢谢你们两位。（旁白）这种神奇的启示不会是 凶兆，可是也不像是吉兆。假如它是凶兆，为什么用一开头就应验的预言保证我未 来的成功呢？我现在不是已经做了考特爵士了吗？假如它是吉兆，为什么那句话会 在我脑中引起可怖的印象，使我毛发悚然，使我的心全然失去常态，卜卜地跳个不 住呢？想像中的恐怖远过于实际上的恐怖；我的思想中不过偶然浮起了杀人的妄念， 就已经使我全身震撼，心灵在胡思乱想中丧失了作用，把虚无的幻影认为真实了。 班柯 瞧，我们的同伴想得多么出神。 麦克白（旁白）要是命运将会使我成为君王，那么也许命运会替我加上王冠， 用不着我自己费力。 班柯 新的尊荣加在他的身上， 就像我们穿上新衣服一样，在没有穿惯以前， 总觉得有些不大适合身材。 麦克白（旁白）事情要来尽管来吧，到头来最难堪的日子也会对付得过去的。 班柯 尊贵的麦克白，我们在等候着您的意旨。 麦克白 原谅我； 我的迟钝的脑筋刚才偶然想起了一些已经忘记了的事情，两 位大人，你们的辛苦已经铭刻在我的心版上，我每天都要把它翻开来诵读。让我们 到王上那儿去。想一想最近发生的这些事情；等我们把一切仔细考虑过以后，再把 各人心里的意思彼此开诚相告吧。 班柯 很好。 麦克白 现在暂时不必多说。来，朋友们。（同下。） |
| SCENE IV. Forres. The palace. Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants DUNCAN Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet return'd? MALCOLM My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one that saw him die: who did report That very frankly he confess'd his treasons, Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle. DUNCAN There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now Was heavy on me: thou art so far before That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine! only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay. MACBETH The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties; and our duties Are to your throne and state children and servants, Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. DUNCAN Welcome hither: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo, That hast no less deserved, nor must be known No less to have done so, let me enfold thee And hold thee to my heart. BANQUO There if I grow, The harvest is your own. DUNCAN My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are the nearest, know We will establish our estate upon Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must Not unaccompanied invest him only, But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers. From hence to Inverness, And bind us further to you. MACBETH The rest is labour, which is not used for you: I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave. DUNCAN My worthy Cawdor! MACBETH [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Exit DUNCAN True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet to me. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: It is a peerless kinsman. Flourish. Exeunt第四场 福累斯。宫中一室 喇叭奏花腔。邓肯、马尔康、道纳本、列诺克斯及侍从等上。 邓肯 考特的死刑已经执行完毕没有？监刑的人还没有回来吗？ 马尔康 陛下， 他们还没有回来；可是我曾经和一个亲眼看见他就刑的人谈过 话，他说他很坦白地供认他的叛逆，请求您宽恕他的罪恶，并且表示深切的悔恨。 他的一生行事，从来不曾像他临终的时候那样得体；他抱着视死如归的态度，抛弃 了他的最宝贵的生命，就像它是不足介意、不值一钱的东西一样。 邓肯 世上还没有一种方法， 可以从一个人的脸上探察他的居心；他是我所曾 经绝对信任的一个人。 麦克白、班柯、洛斯及安格斯上。 邓肯 啊，最值得钦佩的表弟！我的忘恩负义的罪恶，刚才还重压在我的心头。 你的功劳太超越寻常了，飞得最快的报酬都追不上你；要是它再微小一点，那么也 许我可以按照适当的名分，给你应得的感谢和酬劳；现在我只能这样说，一切的报 酬都不能抵偿你的伟大的勋绩。 麦克白 为陛下尽忠效命， 它的本身就是一种酬报。接受我们的劳力是陛下的 名分；我们对于陛下和王国的责任，正像子女和奴仆一样，为了尽我们的敬爱之忱， 无论做什么事都是应该的。 邓肯 欢迎你回来； 我已经开始把你栽培，我要努力使你繁茂。尊贵的班柯， 你的功劳也不在他之下，让我把你拥抱在我的心头。 班柯 要是我能够在陛下的心头生长，那收获是属于陛下的。 邓肯 我的洋溢在心头的盛大的喜乐，想要在悲哀的泪滴里隐藏它自己。吾儿， 各位国戚，各位爵士，以及一切最亲近的人，我现在向你们宣布立我的长子马尔康 为储君，册封为肯勃兰亲王，他将来要继承我的王位；不仅仅是他一个人受到这样 的光荣，广大的恩宠将要像繁星一样，照耀在每一个有功者的身上。陪我到殷佛纳 斯去，让我再叨受你一次盛情的招待。 麦克白 不为陛下效劳， 闲暇成了苦役。让我做一个前驱者，把陛下光降的喜 讯先去报告我的妻子知道；现在我就此告辞了。 邓肯 我的尊贵的考特！ 麦克白（旁白）肯勃兰亲王！这是一块横在我的前途的阶石，我必须跳过这块 阶石，否则就要颠仆在它的上面。星星啊，收起你们的火焰！不要让光亮照见我的 黑暗幽深的欲望。眼睛啊，别望这双手吧；可是我仍要下手，不管干下的事会吓得 眼睛不敢看。（下。） 邓肯 真的， 尊贵的班柯；他真是英勇非凡，我已经饱听人家对他的赞美，那 对我就像是一桌盛筵。他现在先去预备款待我们了，让我们跟上去。真是一个无比 的国戚。（喇叭奏花腔。众下。） |
| SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle. Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter LADY MACBETH 'They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.' Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal. Enter a Messenger What is your tidings? Messenger The king comes here to-night. LADY MACBETH Thou'rt mad to say it: Is not thy master with him? who, were't so, Would have inform'd for preparation. Messenger So please you, it is true: our thane is coming: One of my fellows had the speed of him, Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. LADY MACBETH Give him tending; He brings great news. Exit Messenger The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' Enter MACBETH Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. MACBETH My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night. LADY MACBETH And when goes hence? MACBETH To-morrow, as he purposes. LADY MACBETH O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. He that's coming Must be provided for: and you shall put This night's great business into my dispatch; Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. MACBETH We will speak further. LADY MACBETH Only look up clear; To alter favour ever is to fear: Leave all the rest to me. Exeunt 第五场 殷佛纳斯。麦克白的城堡 麦克白夫人上，读信。 麦克白夫人“她们在我胜利的那天遇到我；我根据最可靠的说法，知道她们是 具有超越凡俗的知识的。当我燃烧着热烈的欲望，想要向她们详细询问的时候，她 们已经化为一阵风不见了。 我正在惊奇不置， 王上的使者就来了，他们都称我为 ‘考特爵士’；那一个尊号正是这些神巫用来称呼我的，而且她们还对我作这样的 预示，说是‘祝福，未来的君王！’我想我应该把这样的消息告诉你，我的最亲爱 的有福同享的伴侣，好让你不致于因为对于你所将要得到的富贵一无所知，而失去 你所应该享有的欢欣。把它放在你的心头，再会。”你本是葛莱密斯爵士，现在又 做了考特爵士，将来还会达到那预言所告诉你的那样高位。可是我却为你的天性忧 虑：它充满了太多的人情的乳臭，使你不敢采取最近的捷径；你希望做一个伟大的 人物，你不是没有野心，可是你却缺少和那种野心相联属的奸恶；你的欲望很大， 但又希望只用正当的手段；一方面不愿玩弄机诈，一方面却又要作非分的攫夺；伟 大的爵士，你想要的那东西正在喊：“你要到手，就得这样干！”你也不是不肯这 样干，而是怕干。赶快回来吧，让我把我的精神力量倾注在你的耳中；命运和玄奇 的力量分明已经准备把黄金的宝冠罩在你的头上，让我用舌尖的勇气，把那阻止你 得到那顶王冠的一切障碍驱扫一空吧。 一使者上。 麦克白夫人 你带了些什么消息来？ 使者 王上今晚要到这儿来。 麦克白夫人 你在说疯话吗？主人是不是跟王上在一起？要是果真有这一回事， 他一定会早就通知我们准备的。 使者 禀夫人， 这话是真的。我们的爵爷快要来了；我的一个伙伴比他早到了 一步，他跑得气都喘不过来，好容易告诉了我这个消息。 麦克白夫人 好好看顾他； 他带来了重大的消息。（使者下）报告邓肯走进我 这堡门来送死的乌鸦，它的叫声是嘶哑的。来，注视着人类恶念的魔鬼们！解除我 的女性的柔弱，用最凶恶的残忍自顶至踵贯注在我的全身；凝结我的血液，不要让 怜悯钻进我的心头，不要让天性中的恻隐摇动我的狠毒的决意！来，你们这些杀人 的助手，你们无形的躯体散满在空间，到处找寻为非作恶的机会，进入我的妇人的 胸中，把我的乳水当作胆汁吧！来，阴沉的黑夜，用最昏暗的地狱中的浓烟罩住你 自己，让我的锐利的刀瞧不见它自己切开的伤口，让青天不能从黑暗的重衾里探出 头来，高喊“住手，住手！” 麦克白上。 麦克白夫人 伟大的葛莱密斯！ 尊贵的考特！比这二者更伟大、更尊贵的未来 的统治者！你的信使我飞越蒙昧的现在，我已经感觉到未来的搏动了。 麦克白 我的最亲爱的亲人，邓肯今晚要到这儿来。 麦克白夫人 什么时候回去呢？ 麦克白 他预备明天回去。 麦克白夫人 啊！ 太阳永远不会见到那样一个明天。您的脸，我的爵爷，正像 一本书，人们可以从那上面读到奇怪的事情。您要欺骗世人，必须装出和世人同样 的神气；让您的眼睛里、您的手上、您的舌尖，随处流露着欢迎；让人家瞧您像一 朵纯洁的花朵，可是在花瓣底下却有一条毒蛇潜伏。我们必须准备款待这位将要来 到的贵宾；您可以把今晚的大事交给我去办；凭此一举，我们今后就可以日日夜夜 永远掌握君临万民的无上权威。 麦克白 我们还要商量商量。 麦克白夫人 泰然自若地抬起您的头来； 脸上变色最易引起猜疑。其他一切都 包在我身上。（同下。） |
| SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle. Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants DUNCAN This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BANQUO This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate. Enter LADY MACBETH DUNCAN See, see, our honour'd hostess! The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains, And thank us for your trouble. LADY MACBETH All our service In every point twice done and then done double Were poor and single business to contend Against those honours deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house: for those of old, And the late dignities heap'd up to them, We rest your hermits. DUNCAN Where's the thane of Cawdor? We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose To be his purveyor: but he rides well; And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest to-night. LADY MACBETH Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own. DUNCAN Give me your hand; Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly, And shall continue our graces towards him. By your leave, hostess. Exeunt第六场 同前。城堡之前 高音笛奏乐。火炬前导；邓肯、马尔康、道纳本、班柯、列诺克斯、麦克德夫、 洛斯、安格斯及侍从等上。 邓肯 这座城堡的位置很好；一阵阵温柔的和风轻轻吹拂着我们微妙的感觉。 班柯 夏天的客人——巡礼庙宇的燕子， 也在这里筑下了它的温暖的巢居，这 可以证明这里的空气有一种诱人的香味；檐下梁间、墙头屋角，无不是这鸟儿安置 吊床和摇篮的地方：凡是它们生息繁殖之处，我注意到空气总是很新鲜芬芳。 麦克白夫人上。 邓肯 瞧， 瞧，我们的尊贵的主妇！到处跟随我们的挚情厚爱，有时候反而给 我们带来麻烦，可是我们还是要把它当作厚爱来感谢；所以根据这个道理，我们给 你带来了麻烦，你还应该感耐我们，祷告上帝保佑我们。 麦克白夫人 我们的犬马微劳， 即使加倍报效，比起陛下赐给我们的深恩广泽 来，也还是不足挂齿的；我们只有燃起一瓣心香，为陛下祷祝上苍，报答陛下过去 和新近加于我们的荣宠。 邓肯 考特爵士呢？我们想要追在他的前面，趁他没有到家，先替他设筵洗尘； 不料他骑马的本领十分了不得，他的一片忠心使他急如星火，帮助他比我们先到了 一步。高贵贤淑的主妇，今天晚上我要做您的宾客了。 麦克白夫人 只要陛下吩咐， 您的仆人们随时准备把他们自己和他们所有的一 切开列清单，向陛下报账，把原来属于陛下的依旧呈献给陛下。 邓肯 把您的手给我； 领我去见我的居停主人。我很敬爱他，我还要继续眷顾 他。请了，夫人。（同下。） |
| SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle. Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH MACBETH If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. Enter LADY MACBETH How now! what news? LADY MACBETH He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber? MACBETH Hath he ask'd for me? LADY MACBETH Know you not he has? MACBETH We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACBETH Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY MACBETH What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. MACBETH If we should fail? LADY MACBETH We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep-- Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell? MACBETH Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be received, When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two Of his own chamber and used their very daggers, That they have done't? LADY MACBETH Who dares receive it other, As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar Upon his death? MACBETH I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Exeunt第七场 同前。堡中一室 高音笛奏乐；室中遍燃火炬。一司膳及若干仆人持肴馔食具上，自台前经过。 麦克白上。 麦克白 要是干了以后就完了， 那么还是快一点干；要是凭着暗杀的手段，可 以攫取美满的结果，又可以排除了一切后患；要是这一刀砍下去，就可以完成一切、 终结一切、解决一切——在这人世上，仅仅在这人世上，在时间这大海的浅滩上； 那么来生我也就顾不到了。可是在这种事情上，我们往往逃不过现世的裁判；我们 树立下血的榜样，教会别人杀人，结果反而自己被人所杀；把毒药投入酒杯里的人， 结果也会自己饮酖而死，这就是一丝不爽的报应。他到这儿来本有两重的信任：第 一，我是他的亲戚，又是他的臣子，按照名分绝对不能干这样的事；第二，我是他 的主人，应当保障他身体的安全，怎么可以自己持刀行刺？而且，这个邓肯秉性仁 慈，处理国政，从来没有过失，要是把他杀死了，他的生前的美德，将要像天使一 般发出喇叭一样清澈的声音，向世人昭告我的弑君重罪；“怜悯”像一个赤身裸体 在狂风中飘游的婴儿，又像一个御气而行的天婴，将要把这可憎的行为揭露在每一 个人的眼中，使眼泪淹没叹息。没有一种力量可以鞭策我实现自己的意图，可是我 的跃跃欲试的野心，却不顾一切地驱着我去冒颠踬的危险。—— 麦克白夫人上。 麦克白 啊！什么消息？ 麦克白夫人 他快要吃好了；你为什么从大厅里跑了出来？ 麦克白 他有没有问起我？ 麦克白夫人 你不知道他问起过你吗？ 麦克白 我们还是不要进行这一件事情吧。 他最近给我极大的尊荣；我也好容 易从各种人的嘴里博到了无上的美誉，我的名声现在正在发射最灿烂的光彩，不能 这么快就把它丢弃了。 麦克白夫人 难道你把自己沉浸在里面的那种希望， 只是醉后的妄想吗？它现 在从一场睡梦中醒来，因为追悔自己的孟浪，而吓得脸色这样苍白吗？从这一刻起， 我要把你的爱情看作同样靠不住的东西。你不敢让你在行为和勇气上跟你的欲望一 致吗？你宁愿像一头畏首畏尾的猫儿，顾全你所认为生命的装饰品的名誉，不惜让 你在自己眼中成为一个懦夫，让“我不敢”永远跟随在“我想要”的后面吗？ 麦克白 请你不要说了。 只要是男子汉做的事，我都敢做；没有人比我有更大 的胆量。 麦克白夫人 那么当初是什么畜生使你把这一种企图告诉我的呢？ 是男子汉就 应当敢作敢为；要是你敢做一个比你更伟大的人物，那才更是一个男子汉。那时候， 无论时间和地点都不曾给你下手的方便，可是你却居然决意要实现你的愿望；现在 你有了大好的机会，你又失去勇气了。我曾经哺乳过婴孩，知道一个母亲是怎样怜 爱那吮吸她乳汁的子女；可是我会在它看着我的脸微笑的时候，从它的柔软的嫩嘴 里摘下我的乳头，把它的脑袋砸碎，要是我也像你一样，曾经发誓下这样毒手的话。 麦克白 假如我们失败了—— 麦克白夫人 我们失败！ 只要你集中你的全副勇气，我们决不会失败。邓肯赶 了这一天辛苦的路程，一定睡得很熟；我再去陪他那两个侍卫饮酒作乐，灌得他们 头脑昏沉、记忆化成一阵烟雾；等他们烂醉如泥、像死猪一样睡去以后，我们不就 可以把那毫无防卫的邓肯随意摆布了吗？我们不是可以把这一件重大的谋杀罪案， 推在他的酒醉的侍卫身上吗？ 麦克白 愿你所生育的全是男孩子， 因为你的无畏的精神，只应该铸造一些刚 强的男性。要是我们在那睡在他寝室里的两个人身上涂抹一些血迹，而且就用他们 的刀子，人家会不会相信真是他们干下的事？ 麦克白夫人 等他的死讯传出以后， 我们就假意装出号啕痛哭的样子，这样还 有谁敢不相信？ 麦克白 我的决心已定， 我要用全身的力量，去干这件惊人的举动。去，用最 美妙的外表把人们的耳目欺骗；奸诈的心必须罩上虚伪的笑脸。（同下。） ---------- |
| SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle. Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him BANQUO How goes the night, boy? FLEANCE The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. BANQUO And she goes down at twelve. FLEANCE I take't, 'tis later, sir. BANQUO Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch Give me my sword. Who's there? MACBETH A friend. BANQUO What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed: He hath been in unusual pleasure, and Sent forth great largess to your offices. This diamond he greets your wife withal, By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up In measureless content. MACBETH Being unprepared, Our will became the servant to defect; Which else should free have wrought. BANQUO All's well. I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd some truth. MACBETH I think not of them: Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, We would spend it in some words upon that business, If you would grant the time. BANQUO At your kind'st leisure. MACBETH If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis, It shall make honour for you. BANQUO So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd. MACBETH Good repose the while! BANQUO Thanks, sir: the like to you! Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE MACBETH Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Exit Servant Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. A bell rings I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Exit第二幕 第一场 殷佛纳斯。堡中庭院 仆人执火炬引班柯及弗里恩斯上。 班柯 孩子，夜已经过了几更了？ 弗里恩斯 月亮已经下去；我还没有听见打钟。 班柯 月亮是在十二点钟下去的。 弗里恩斯 我想不止十二点钟了，父亲。 班柯 等一下， 把我的剑拿着。天上也讲究节俭，把灯烛一起熄灭了。把那个 也拿着。催人入睡的疲倦，像沉重的铅块一样压在我的身上，可是我却一点也不想 睡。慈悲的神明！抑制那些罪恶的思想，不要让它们潜入我的睡梦之中。 麦克白上，一仆人执火炬随上。 班柯 把我的剑给我。——那边是谁？ 麦克白 一个朋友。 班柯 什么， 爵节！还没有安息吗？王上已经睡了；他今天非常高兴，赏了你 家仆人许多东西。这一颗金刚钻是他送给尊夫人的，他称她为最殷勤的主妇。无限 的愉快笼罩着他的全身。 麦克白 我们因为事先没有准备，恐怕有许多招待不周的地方。 班柯 好说好说。 昨天晚上我梦见那三个女巫；她们对您所讲的话倒有几分应 验。 麦克白 我没有想到她们； 可是等我们有了工夫，不妨谈谈那件事，要是您愿 意的话。 班柯 悉如尊命。 麦克白 您听从了我的话，包您有一笔富贵到手。 班柯 为了凯觎富贵而丧失荣誉的事， 我是不干的；要是您有什么见教，只要 不毁坏我的清白的忠诚，我都愿意接受。 麦克白 那么慢慢再说，请安息吧。 班柯 谢谢；您也可以安息啦。（班柯、弗里恩斯同下。） 麦克白 去对太太说要是我的酒③预备好了， 请她打一下钟。你去睡吧。（仆 人下）在我面前摇晃着、它的柄对着我的手的，不是一把刀子吗？来，让我抓住你。 我抓不到你，可是仍旧看见你。不祥的幻象，你只是一件可视不可触的东西吗？或 者你不过是一把想像中的刀子，从狂热的脑筋里发出来的虚妄的意匠？我仍旧看见 你，你的形状正像我现在拔出的这一把刀子一样明显。你指示着我所要去的方向， 告诉我应当用什么利器。我的眼睛倘不是上了当，受其他知觉的嘲弄，就是兼领了 一切感官的机能。我仍旧看见你；你的刃上和柄上还流着一滴一滴刚才所没有的血。 没有这样的事；杀人的恶念使我看见这种异象。现在在半个世界上，一切生命仿佛 已经死去，罪恶的梦景扰乱着平和的睡眠，作法的女巫在向惨白的赫卡忒献祭；形 容枯瘦的杀人犯，听到了替他巡哨、报更的豺狼的嗥声，仿佛淫乱的塔昆蹑着脚步 像一个鬼似的向他的目的地走去。坚固结实的大地啊，不要听见我的脚步声音是向 什么地方去的，我怕路上的砖石会泄漏了我的行踪，把黑夜中一派阴森可怕的气氛 破坏了。我正在这儿威胁他的生命，他却在那儿活得好好的；在紧张的行动中间， 言语不过是一口冷气。（钟声）我去，就这么干；钟声在招引我。不要听它，邓肯， 这是召唤你上天堂或者下地狱的丧钟。（下。） |
| SCENE II. The same. Enter LADY MACBETH LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it: The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. MACBETH [Within] Who's there? what, ho! LADY MACBETH Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't. Enter MACBETH My husband! MACBETH I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Did not you speak? MACBETH When? LADY MACBETH Now. MACBETH As I descended? LADY MACBETH Ay. MACBETH Hark! Who lies i' the second chamber? LADY MACBETH Donalbain. MACBETH This is a sorry sight. Looking on his hands LADY MACBETH A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight. MACBETH There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried 'Murder!' That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them: But they did say their prayers, and address'd them Again to sleep. LADY MACBETH There are two lodged together. MACBETH One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,' When they did say 'God bless us!' LADY MACBETH Consider it not so deeply. MACBETH But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat. LADY MACBETH These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad. MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast,-- LADY MACBETH What do you mean? MACBETH Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house: 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.' LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. MACBETH I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not. LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. Exit. Knocking within MACBETH Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red. Re-enter LADY MACBETH LADY MACBETH My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white. Knocking within I hear a knocking At the south entry: retire we to our chamber; A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended. Knocking within Hark! more knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, And show us to be watchers. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. MACBETH To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Knocking within Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst! Exeunt第二场 同前 麦克白夫人上。 麦克白夫人 酒把他们醉倒了， 却提起了我的勇气；浇熄了他们的馋焰，却燃 起了我心头的烈火。听！不要响！这是夜枭在啼声，它正在鸣着丧钟，向人们道凄 厉的晚安。他在那儿动手了。门都开着，那两个醉饱的侍卫用鼾声代替他们的守望； 我曾经在他们的乳酒里放下麻药，瞧他们熟睡的样子，简直分别不出他们是活人还 是死人。 麦克白（在内）那边是谁？喂！ 麦克白夫人 嗳哟！ 我怕他们已经醒过来了，这件事情却还没有办好；不是罪 行本身，而是我们的企图毁了我们。听！我把他们的刀子都放好了；他不会找不到 的。倘不是我看他睡着的样子活像我的父亲，我早就自己动手了。我的丈夫！ 麦克白上。 麦克白 我已经把事情办好了。你没有听见一个声音吗？ 麦克白夫人 我听见枭啼和蟋蟀的鸣声。你没有讲过话吗？ 麦克白 什么时候？ 麦克白夫人 刚才。 麦克白 我下来的时候吗？ 麦克白夫人 嗯。 麦克白 听！谁睡在隔壁的房间里？ 麦克白夫人 道纳本。 麦克白（视手）好惨！ 麦克白夫人 别发傻，惨什么。 麦克白 一个人在睡梦里大笑，还有一个人喊“杀人啦！”他们把彼此惊醒了； 我站定听他们；可是他们念完祷告，又睡着了。 麦克白夫人 是有两个睡在那一间。 麦克白 一个喊， “上帝保佑我们！”一个喊，“阿门！”好像他们看见我高 举这一双杀人的血手似的。听着他们惊慌的口气，当他们说过了“上帝保佑我们” 以后，我想要说“阿门”，却怎么也说不出来。 麦克白夫人 不要把它放在心上。 麦克白 可是我为什么说不出“阿门”两个字来呢？我才是最需要上帝垂恩的， 可是“阿门”两个字却哽在我的喉头。 麦克白夫人 我们干这种事， 不能尽往这方面想下去；这样想着是会使我们发 疯的。 麦克白 我仿佛听见一个声音喊着：“不要再睡了！麦克白已经杀害了睡眠，” 那清白的睡眠，把忧虑的乱丝编织起来的睡眠，那日常的死亡，疲劳者的沐浴，受 伤的心灵的油膏，大自然的最丰盛的菜肴，生命的盛筵上主要的营养，—— 麦克白夫人 你这种话是什么意思？ 麦克白 那声音继续向全屋子喊着：“不要再睡了！葛莱密斯已经杀害了睡眠， 所以考特将再也得不到睡眠，麦克白将再也得不到睡眠！” 麦克白夫人 谁喊着这样的话？ 唉，我的爵爷，您这样胡思乱想，是会妨害您 的健康的。去拿些水来，把您手上的血迹洗净。为什么您把这两把刀子带了来？它 们应该放在那边。把它们拿回去，涂一些血在那两个熟睡的侍卫身上。 麦克白 我不高兴再去了； 我不敢回想刚才所干的事，更没有胆量再去看它一 眼。 麦克白夫人 意志动摇的人！ 把刀子给我。睡着的人和死了的人不过和画像一 样；只有小儿的眼睛才会害怕画中的魔鬼。要是他还流着血，我就把它涂在那两个 侍卫的脸上；因为我们必须让人家瞧着是他们的罪恶。（下。内敲门声。） 麦克白 那打门的声音是从什么地方来的？ 究竟是怎么一回事，一点点的声音 都会吓得我心惊肉跳？这是什么手！嘿！它们要挖出我的眼睛。大洋里所有的水， 能够洗净我手上的血迹吗？不，恐怕我这一手的血，倒要把一碧无垠的海水染成一 片殷红呢。 麦克白夫人重上。 麦克白夫人 我的两手也跟你的同样颜色了， 可是我的心却羞于像你那样变成 惨白。（内敲门声）我听见有人打着南面的门；让我们回到自己房间里去；一点点 的水就可以替我们泯除痕迹； 不是很容易的事吗？ 你的魄力不知道到哪儿去了。 （内敲门声）听！又在那儿打门了。披上你的睡衣，也许人家会来找我们，不要让 他们看见我们还没有睡觉。别这样傻头傻脑地呆想了。 麦克白 要想到我所干的事， 最好还是忘掉我自己。（内敲门声）用你打门的 声音把邓肯惊醒了吧！我希望你能够惊醒他！（同下。） |
| SCENE III. The same. Knocking within. Enter a Porter Porter Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. Knocking within Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty: come in time; have napkins enow about you; here you'll sweat for't. Knocking within Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; 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 that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. 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: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. MACDUFF What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. MACDUFF I believe drink gave thee the lie last night. Porter That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I think, being too strong for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him. MACDUFF Is thy master stirring? Enter MACBETH Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes. LENNOX Good morrow, noble sir. MACBETH Good morrow, both. MACDUFF Is the king stirring, worthy thane? MACBETH Not yet. MACDUFF He did command me to call timely on him: I have almost slipp'd the hour. MACBETH I'll bring you to him. MACDUFF I know this is a joyful trouble to you; But yet 'tis one. MACBETH The labour we delight in physics pain. This is the door. MACDUFF I'll make so bold to call, For 'tis my limited service. Exit LENNOX Goes the king hence to-day? MACBETH He does: he did appoint so. LENNOX The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth Was feverous and did shake. MACBETH 'Twas a rough night. LENNOX My young remembrance cannot parallel A fellow to it. Re-enter MACDUFF MACDUFF O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! MACBETH LENNOX What's the matter. MACDUFF Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building! MACBETH What is 't you say? the life? LENNOX Mean you his majesty? MACDUFF Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak; See, and then speak yourselves. Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX Awake, awake! Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake! Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself! up, up, and see The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo! As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, To countenance this horror! Ring the bell. Bell rings Enter LADY MACBETH LADY MACBETH What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? speak, speak! MACDUFF O gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell. Enter BANQUO O Banquo, Banquo, Our royal master 's murder'd! LADY MACBETH Woe, alas! What, in our house? BANQUO Too cruel any where. Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so. Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS MACBETH Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, There 's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN DONALBAIN What is amiss? MACBETH You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. MACDUFF Your royal father 's murder'd. MALCOLM O, by whom? LENNOX Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't: Their hands and faces were an badged with blood; So were their daggers, which unwiped we found Upon their pillows: They stared, and were distracted; no man's life Was to be trusted with them. MACBETH O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them. MACDUFF Wherefore did you so? MACBETH Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man: The expedition my violent love Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers, Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make 's love kno wn? LADY MACBETH Help me hence, ho! MACDUFF Look to the lady. MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we hold our tongues, That most may claim this argument for ours? DONALBAIN [Aside to MALCOLM] What should be spoken here, where our fate, Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us? Let 's away; Our tears are not yet brew'd. MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN] Nor our strong sorrow Upon the foot of motion. BANQUO Look to the lady: LADY MACBETH is carried out And when we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure, let us meet, And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us: In the great hand of God I stand; and thence Against the undivulged pretence I fight Of treasonous malice. MACDUFF And so do I. ALL So all. MACBETH Let's briefly put on manly readiness, And meet i' the hall together. ALL Well contented. Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain. MALCOLM What will you do? Let's not consort with them: To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. I'll to England. DONALBAIN To Ireland, I; our separated fortune Shall keep us both the safer: where we are, There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody. MALCOLM This murderous shaft that's shot Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse; And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away: there's warrant in that theft Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left. Exeunt 第三场 同前 内敲门声。一门房上。 门房 门打得这样厉害！ 要是一个人在地狱里做了管门人，就是拔闩开锁也足 够他办的了。（内敲门声）敲，敲！凭着魔鬼的名义，谁在那儿？一定是个囤积粮 食的富农，眼看碰上了丰收的年头，就此上了吊。赶快进来吧，多预备几方手帕， 这儿是火坑，包你淌一身臭汗。（内敲门声）敲，敲！凭着还有一个魔鬼的名字， 是谁在那儿？哼，一定是什么讲起话来暧昧含糊的家伙，他会同时站在两方面，一 会儿帮着这个骂那个，一会儿帮着那个骂这个；他曾经为了上帝的缘故，干过不少 亏心事，可是他那条暧昧含糊的舌头却不能把他送上天堂去。啊！进来吧，暧昧含 糊的家伙。（内敲门声）敲，敲，敲！谁在那儿？哼，一定是什么英国的裁缝，他 生前给人做条法国裤还要偷材料④，所以到了这里来。进来吧，裁缝；你可以在这 儿烧你的烙铁。（内敲门声）敲，敲；敲个不停！你是什么人？可是这儿太冷，当 不成地狱呢。我再也不想做这鬼看门人了。我倒很想放进几个各色各样的人来，让 他们经过酒池肉林，一直到刀山火焰上去。（内敲门声）来了，来了！请你记着我 这看门的人。（开门。） 麦克德夫及列诺克斯上。 麦克德夫 朋友，你是不是睡得太晚了，所以睡到现在还爬不起来？ 门房 不瞒您说， 大人，我们昨天晚上喝酒，一直闹到第二遍鸡啼哩；喝酒这 一件事，大人，最容易引起三件事情。 麦克德夫 是哪三件事情？ 门房 呃， 大人，酒糟鼻、睡觉和撒尿。淫欲呢，它挑起来也压下去；它挑起 你的春情，可又不让你真的干起来。所以多喝酒，对于淫欲也可以说是个两面派： 成全它，又破坏它；捧它的场，又拖它的后腿；鼓励它，又打击它；替它撑腰，又 让它站不住脚；结果呢，两面派把它哄睡了，叫它做了一场荒唐的春梦，就溜之大 吉了。 麦克德夫 我看昨晚上杯子里的东西就叫你做了一场春梦吧。 门房 可不是，大爷，让我从来也没这么荒唐过。可我也不是好惹的，依我看， 我比它强，我虽然不免给它揪住大腿，可我终究把它摔倒了。 麦克德夫 你的主人起来了没有？ 麦克白上。 麦克德夫 我们打门把他吵醒了；他来了。 列诺克斯 早安，爵爷。 麦克白 两位早安。 麦克德夫 爵爷，王上起来了没有？ 麦克白 还没有。 麦克德夫 他叫我一早就来叫他；我几乎误了时间。 麦克白 我带您去看他。 麦克德夫 我知道这是您乐意干的事，可是有劳您啦。 麦克白 我们喜欢的工作，可以使我们忘记劳苦。这门里就是。 麦克德夫 那么我就冒昧进去了，因为我奉有王上的命令。（下。） 列诺克斯 王上今天就要走吗？ 麦克白 是的，他已经这样决定了。 列诺克斯 昨天晚上刮着很厉害的暴风， 我们住的地方，烟囱都给吹了下来； 他们还说空中有哀哭的声音，有人听见奇怪的死亡的惨叫，还有人听见一个可怕的 声音，预言着将要有一场绝大的纷争和混乱，降临在这不幸的时代。黑暗中出现的 凶鸟整整地吵了一个漫漫的长夜；有人说大地都发热而战抖起来了。 麦克白 果然是一个可怕的晚上。 列诺克斯 我的年轻的经验里唤不起一个同样的回忆。 麦克德夫重上。 麦克德夫 啊，可怕！可怕！可怕！不可言喻、不可想像的恐怖！ 麦克白 列诺克斯 什么事？ 麦克德夫 混乱已经完成了他的杰作！ 大逆不道的凶手打开了王上的圣殿，把 它的生命偷了去了！ 麦克白 你说什么？生命？ 列诺克斯 你是说陛下吗？ 麦克德夫 到他的寝室里去， 让一幕惊人的惨剧昏眩你们的视觉吧。不要向我 追问；你们自己去看了再说。（麦克白、列诺克斯同下）醒来！醒来！敲起警钟来。 杀了人啦！有人在谋反啦！班柯！道纳本！马尔康！醒来！不要贪恋温柔的睡眠， 那只是死亡的表象，瞧一瞧死亡的本身吧！起来，起来，瞧瞧世界末日的影子！马 尔康！班柯！像鬼魂从坟墓里起来一般，过来瞧瞧这一幕恐怖的景象吧！把钟敲起 来！（钟鸣。） 麦克白夫人上。 麦克白夫人 为什么要吹起这样凄厉的号角，把全屋子睡着的人唤醒？说，说！ 麦克德夫 啊， 好夫人！我不能让您听见我嘴里的消息，它一进到妇女的耳朵 里，是比利剑还要难受的。 班柯上。 麦克德夫 啊，班柯！班柯！我们的主上给人谋杀了！ 麦克白夫人 嗳哟！什么！在我们的屋子里吗？ 班柯 无论在什么地方， 都是太惨了。好德夫，请你收回你刚才说过的话，告 诉我们没有这么一回事。 麦克白及列诺克斯重上。 麦克白 要是我在这件变故发生以前一小时死去， 我就可以说是活过了一段幸 福的时间；因为从这一刻起，人生已经失去它的严肃的意义，一切都不过是儿戏； 荣名和美德已经死了，生命的美酒已经喝完，剩下来的只是一些无味的渣滓，当作 酒窖里的珍宝。 马尔康及道纳本上。 道纳本 出了什么乱子了？ 麦克白 你们还没有知道你们重大的损失； 你们的血液的源泉已经切断了，你 们的生命的根本已经切断了。 麦克德夫 你们的父王给人谋杀了。 马尔康 啊！给谁谋杀的？ 列诺克斯 瞧上去是睡在他房间里的那两个家伙干的事； 他们的手上脸上都是 血迹；我们从他们枕头底下搜出了两把刀，刀上的血迹也没有揩掉；他们的神色惊 惶万分；谁也不能把他自己的生命信托给这种家伙。 麦克白 啊！可是我后悔一时卤莽，把他们杀了。 麦克德夫 你为什么杀了他们？ 麦克白 谁能够在惊愕之中保持冷静， 在盛怒之中保持镇定，在激于忠愤的时 候保持他的不偏不倚的精神？世上没有这样的人吧。我的理智来不及控制我的愤激 的忠诚。这儿躺着邓肯，他的白银的皮肤上镶着一缕缕黄金的宝血，他的创巨痛深 的伤痕张开了裂口，像是一道道毁灭的门户；那边站着这两个凶手，身上浸润着他 们罪恶的颜色，他们的刀上凝结着刺目的血块；只要是一个尚有几分忠心的人，谁 不要怒火中烧，替他的主子报仇雪恨？ 麦克白夫人 啊，快来扶我进去！ 麦克德夫 快来照料夫人。 马尔康（向道纳本旁白）这是跟我们切身相关的事情，为什么我们一言不发？ 道纳本（向马尔康旁白）我们身陷危境，不可测的命运随时都会吞噬我们，还 有什么话好说呢？去吧，我们的眼泪现在还只在心头酝酿呢。 马尔康（向道纳本旁白）我们的沉重的悲哀也还没有开头呢。 班柯 照料这位夫人。 （侍从扶麦克白夫人下）我们这样袒露着身子，不免要 受凉，大家且去披了衣服，回头再举行一次会议，详细彻查这一件最残酷的血案的 真相。恐惧和疑虑使我们惊惶失措；站在上帝的伟大的指导之下，我一定要从尚未 揭发的假面具下面，探出叛逆的阴谋，和它作殊死的奋斗。 麦克德夫 我也愿意作同样的宣告。 众人 我们也都抱着同样的决心。 麦克白 让我们赶快穿上战士的衣服，大家到厅堂里商议去。 众人 很好。（除马尔康、道纳本外均下。） 马尔康 你预备怎么办？ 我们不要跟他们在一起。假装出一副悲哀的脸，是每 一个奸人的拿手好戏。我要到英格兰去。 道纳本 我到爱尔兰去； 我们两人各奔前程，对于彼此都是比较安全的办法。 我们现在所在的地方，人们的笑脸里都暗藏着利刃；越是跟我们血统相近的人，越 是想喝我们的血。 马尔康 杀人的利箭已经射出， 可是还没有落下，避过它的目标是我们唯一的 活路。所以赶快上马吧；让我们不要斤斤于告别的礼貌，趁着有便就溜出去；明知 没有网开一面的希望，就该及早逃避弋人的罗网。（同下。） |
| SCENE IV. Outside Macbeth's castle. Enter ROSS and an old Man Old Man Threescore and ten I can remember well: Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings. ROSS Ah, good father, Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? Old Man 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd. ROSS And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain-- Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make War with mankind. Old Man 'Tis said they eat each other. ROSS They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff. Enter MACDUFF How goes the world, sir, now? MACDUFF Why, see you not? ROSS Is't known who did this more than bloody deed? MACDUFF Those that Macbeth hath slain. ROSS Alas, the day! What good could they pretend? MACDUFF They were suborn'd: Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them Suspicion of the deed. ROSS 'Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. MACDUFF He is already named, and gone to Scone To be invested. ROSS Where is Duncan's body? MACDUFF Carried to Colmekill, The sacred storehouse of his predecessors, And guardian of their bones. ROSS Will you to Scone? MACDUFF No, cousin, I'll to Fife. ROSS Well, I will thither. MACDUFF Well, may you see things well done there: adieu! Lest our old robes sit easier than our new! ROSS Farewell, father. Old Man God's benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes! Exeunt 第四场 同前。城堡外 洛斯及一老翁上。 老翁 我已经活了七十个年头， 惊心动魄的日子也经过得不少，希奇古怪的事 情也看到过不少，可是像这样可怕的夜晚，却还是第一次遇见。 洛斯 啊！ 好老人家，你看上天好像恼怒人类的行为，在向这流血的舞台发出 恐吓。照钟点现在应该是白天了，可是黑夜的魔手却把那盏在天空中运行的明灯遮 蔽得不露一丝光亮。难道黑夜已经统治一切，还是因为白昼不屑露面，所以在这应 该有阳光遍吻大地的时候，地面上却被无边的黑暗所笼罩？ 老翁 这种现象完全是反常的， 正像那件惊人的血案一样。在上星期二那天， 有一头雄踞在高岩上的猛鹰，被一只吃田鼠的鸱鸮飞来啄死了。 洛斯 还有一件非常怪异可是十分确实的事情， 邓肯有几匹躯干俊美、举步如 飞的骏马，的确是不可多得的良种，忽然野性大发，撞破了马棚，冲了出来，倔强 得不受羁勒，好像要向人类挑战似的。 老翁 据说它们还彼此相食。 洛斯 是的，我亲眼看见这种事情，简宜不敢相信自己的眼睛。麦克德夫来了。 麦克德夫上。 洛斯 情况现在变得怎么样啦？ 麦克德夫 啊，您没有看见吗？ 洛斯 谁干的这件残酷得超乎寻常的罪行已经知道了吗？ 麦克德夫 就是那两个给麦克白杀死了的家伙。 洛斯 唉！他们干了这件事可以希望得到什么好处呢？ 麦克德夫 他们是受人的指使。 马尔康和道纳本，王上的两个儿子，已经偷偷 地逃走了，这使他们也蒙上了嫌疑。 洛斯 那更加违反人情了！ 反噬自己的命根，这样的野心会有什么好结果呢？ 看来大概王位要让麦克白登上去了。 麦克德夫 他已经受到推举，现在到斯贡即位去了。 洛斯 邓肯的尸体在什么地方？ 麦克德夫 已经抬到戈姆基尔，他的祖先的陵墓上。 洛斯 您也要到斯贡去吗？ 麦克德夫 不，大哥，我还是到费辅去。 洛斯 好，我要到那里去看看。 麦克德夫 好， 但愿您看见那里的一切都是好好的，再会！怕只怕我们的新衣 服不及旧衣服舒服哩！ 洛斯 再见，老人家。 老翁 上帝祝福您， 也祝福那些把恶事化成善事、 把仇敌化为朋友的人们！ （各下。） |
| SCENE I. Forres. The palace. Enter BANQUO BANQUO Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If there come truth from them-- As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine-- Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope? But hush! no more. Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants MACBETH Here's our chief guest. LADY MACBETH If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming. MACBETH To-night we hold a solemn supper sir, 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 desired your good advice, 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 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 you? BANQUO Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's. MACBETH I wish your horses swift and sure of foot; And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell. Exit BANQUO Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night: to make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you! Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men Our pleasure? ATTENDANT They are, my lord, without the palace gate. MACBETH Bring them before us. Exit Attendant To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and, under him, My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like They hail'd him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so, For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd; Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list. And champion me to the utterance! Who's there! Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. Exit Attendant Was it not yesterday we spoke together? First Murderer It was, so please your highness. MACBETH Well then, now Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know That it was he in the times past which held you So under fortune, which you thought had been Our innocent self: this I made good to you In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you, How you were borne in hand, how cross'd, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might To half a soul and to a notion crazed Say 'Thus did Banquo.' First Murderer You made it known to us. MACBETH I did so, and went further, which is now Our point of second meeting. Do you find Your patience so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd To pray for this good man and for his issue, Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave And beggar'd yours for ever? First Murderer We are men, my liege. MACBETH Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive Particular addition. from the bill That writes them all alike: and so of men. Now, if you have a station in the file, Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't; And I will put that business in your bosoms, Whose execution takes your enemy off, Grapples you to the heart and love of us, Who wear our health but sickly in his life, Which in his death were perfect. Second Murderer I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. First Murderer And I another So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my lie on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't. MACBETH Both of you Know Banquo was your enemy. Both Murderers True, my lord. MACBETH So is he mine; and in such bloody distance, That every minute of his being thrusts Against my near'st of life: and though I could With barefaced power sweep him from my sight And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not, For certain friends that are both his and mine, Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall Who I myself struck down; and thence it is, That I to your assistance do make love, Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons. Second Murderer We shall, my lord, Perform what you command us. First Murderer Though our lives-- MACBETH Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most I will advise you where to plant yourselves; Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time, The moment on't; for't must be done to-night, And something from the palace; always thought That I require a clearness: and with him-- To leave no rubs nor botches in the work-- Fleance his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father's, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart: I'll come to you anon. Both Murderers We are resolved, my lord. MACBETH I'll call upon you straight: abide within. Exeunt Murderers It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out to-night. Exit第三幕 第一场 福累斯。宫中一室 班柯上。 班柯 你现在已经如愿以偿了： 国王、考特、葛莱密斯，一切符合女巫们的预 言；你得到这种富贵的手段恐怕不大正当；可是据说你的王位不能传及子孙，我自 己却要成为许多君王的始祖。要是她们的话里也有真理，就像对于你所显示的那样， 那么，既然她们所说的话已经在你麦克白身上应验，难道不也会成为对我的启示， 使我对未来发生希望吗？可是闭口！不要多说了。 喇叭奏花腔。麦克白王冠王服；麦克白夫人后冠后服；列诺克斯、洛斯、贵族、 贵妇、侍从等上。 麦克白 这儿是我们主要的上宾。 麦克白夫人 要是忘记了请他， 那就要成为我们盛筵上绝大的遗憾，一切都要 显得寒伧了。 麦克白 将军，我们今天晚上要举行一次隆重的宴会，请你千万出席。 班柯 谨遵陛下命令；我的忠诚永远接受陛下的使唤。 麦克白 今天下午你要骑马去吗？ 班柯 是的，陛下。 麦克白 否则我很想请你参加我们今天的会议， 贡献我们一些良好的意见，你 的老谋胜算，我是一向佩服的；可是我们明天再谈吧。你要骑到很远的地方吗？ 班柯 陛下， 我想尽量把从现在起到晚餐时候为止这一段的时间在马上销磨过 去；要是我的马不跑得快一些，也许要到天黑以后一两小时才能回来。 麦克白 不要误了我们的宴会。 班柯 陛下，我一定不失约。 麦克白 我听说我那两个凶恶的王侄已经分别到了英格兰和爱尔兰， 他们不承 认他们的残酷的弑父重罪，却到处向人传播离奇荒谬的谣言；可是我们明天再谈吧， 有许多重要的国事要等候我们两人共同处理呢。请上马吧；等你晚上回来的时候再 会。弗里恩斯也跟着你去吗？ 班柯 是，陛队；时间已经不早，我们就要去了。 麦克白 愿你快马飞驰， 一路平安。再见。（班柯下）大家请便，各人去干各 人的事，到晚上七点钟再聚首吧。为要更能领略到嘉宾满堂的快乐起见，我在晚餐 以前，预备一个人独自静息静息；愿上帝和你们同在！（除麦克白及侍从一人外均 下）喂，问你一句话。那两个人是不是在外面等候着我的旨意？ 侍从 是，陛下，他们就在宫门外面。 麦克白 带他们进来见我。 （侍从下）单单做到了这一步还不算什么，总要把 现状确定巩固起来才好。我对于班柯怀着深切的恐惧，他的高贵的天性中有一种使 我生畏的东西；他是个敢作敢为的人，在他的无畏的精神上，又加上深沉的智虑， 指导他的大勇在确有把握的时机行动。除了他以外，我什么人都不怕，只有他的存 在却使我惴惴不安；我的星宿给他罩住了，就像凯撒罩住了安东尼的里宿。当那些 女巫们最初称我为王的时候，他呵斥她们，叫她们对他说话；她们就像先知似的说 他的子孙将相继为王，她们把一顶没有后嗣的王冠戴在我的头上，把一根没有人继 承的御杖放在我的手里，然后再从我的手里夺去，我自己的子孙却得不到继承。要 是果然是这样，那么我玷污了我的手，只是为了班柯后裔的好处；我为了他们暗杀 了仁慈的邓肯；为了他们良心上负着重大的罪疚和不安；我把我的永生的灵魂送给 了人类的公敌，只是为了使他们可以登上王座，使班柯的种子登上王座！不，我不 能忍受这样的事，宁愿接受命运的挑战！是谁？ 侍从率二刺客重上。 麦克白 你现在到门口去， 等我叫你再进来。（侍从下）我们不是在昨天谈过 话吗？ 刺客甲 回陛下的话，正是。 麦克白 那么好，你们有没有考虑过我的话？你们知道从前都是因为他的缘故， 使你们屈身微贱，虽然你们却错怪到我的身上。在上一次我们谈话的中间，我已经 把这一点向你们说明白了，我用确凿的证据，指出你们怎样被人操纵愚弄、怎样受 人牵制压抑、人家对你们是用怎样的手段、这种手段的主动者是谁以及一切其他的 种种，所有这些都可以使一个半痴的、疯癫的人恍然大悟地说，“这些都是班柯干 的事。” 刺客甲 我们已经蒙陛下开示过了。 麦克白 是的， 而且我还要更进一步，这就是我们今天第二次谈话的目的。你 们难道有那样的好耐性，能够忍受这样的屈辱吗？他的铁手已经快要把你们压下坟 墓里去，使你们的子孙永远做乞丐，难道你们就这样虔敬，还要叫你们替这个好人 和他的子孙祈祷吗？ 刺客甲 陛下，我们是人总有人气。 麦克白 嗯，按说，你们也算是人，正像家狗、野狗、猎狗、叭儿狗、狮子狗、 杂种狗、癞皮狗，统称为狗一样；它们有的跑得快，有的跑得慢，有的狡猾，有的 可以看门，有的可以打猎，各自按照造物赋与它们的本能而分别价值的高下，在笼 统的总称底下得到特殊的名号；人类也是一样。要是你们在人类的行列之中，并不 属于最卑劣的一级，那么说吧，我就可以把一件事情信托你们，你们照我的话干了 以后，不但可以除去你们的仇人，而且还可以永远受我的眷宠；他一天活在世上， 我的心病一天不能痊愈。 刺客乙 陛下， 我久受世间无情的打击和虐待，为了向这世界发泄我的怨恨起 见，我什么事都愿意干。 刺客甲 我也这样， 一次次的灾祸逆运，使我厌倦于人世，我愿意拿我的生命 去赌博，或者从此交上好运，或者了结我的一生。 麦克白 你们两人都知道班柯是你们的仇人。 刺客乙 是的，陛下。 麦克白 他也是我的仇人； 而且他是我的肘腋之患，他的存在每一分钟都深深 威胁着我生命的安全；虽然我可以老实不客气地运用我的权力，把他从我的眼前铲 去，而且只要说一声“这是我的意旨”就可以交代过去。可是我却还不能就这么干， 因为他有几个朋友同时也是我的朋友，我不能招致他们的反感，即使我亲手把他打 倒，也必须假意为他的死亡悲泣；所以我只好借重你们两人的助力，为了许多重要 的理由，把这件事情遮过一般人的眼睛。 刺客乙 陛下，我们一定照您的命令做去。 刺客甲 即使我们的生命—— 麦克白 你们的勇气已经充分透露在你们的神情之间。 最迟在这一小时之内， 我就可以告诉你们在什么地方埋伏，等看准机会，再通知你们在什么时间动手；因 为这件事情一定要在今晚干好，而且要离开王宫远一些，你们必须记住不能把我牵 涉在内；同时为了免得留下枝节起见，你们还要把跟在他身边的他的儿子弗里恩斯 也一起杀了，他们父子两人的死，对于我是同样重要的，必须让他们同时接受黑暗 的命运。你们先下去决定一下；我就来看你们。 刺客乙 我们已经决定了，陛下。 麦克白 我立刻就会来看你们； 你们进去等一会儿。（二刺客下）班柯，你的 命运已经决定，你的灵魂要是找得到天堂的话，今天晚上你就该找到了。（下。） |
| SCENE II. The palace. Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant LADY MACBETH Is Banquo gone from court? Servant Ay, madam, but returns again to-night. LADY MACBETH Say to the king, I would attend his leisure For a few words. Servant Madam, I will. Exit LADY MACBETH Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content: 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Enter MACBETH How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what's done is done. MACBETH We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. LADY MACBETH Come on; Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night. MACBETH So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you: Let your remembrance apply to Banquo; Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue: Unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours in these flattering streams, And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are. LADY MACBETH You must leave this. MACBETH O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. LADY MACBETH But in them nature's copy's not eterne. MACBETH There's comfort yet; they are assailable; Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. LADY MACBETH What's to be done? MACBETH Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. So, prithee, go with me. Exeunt第二场 同前。宫中另一室 麦克白夫人及一仆人上。 麦克白夫人 班柯已经离开宫廷了吗？ 仆人 是，娘娘，可是他今天晚上就要回来的。 麦克白夫人 你去对王上说，我要请他允许我跟他说几句话。 仆人 是，娘娘。（下。） 麦克白夫人 费尽了一切， 结果还是一无所得，我们的目的虽然达到，却一点 不感觉满足。要是用毁灭他人的手段，使自己置身在充满着疑虑的欢娱里，那么还 不如那被我们所害的人，倒落得无忧无虑。 麦克白上。 麦克白夫人 啊！ 我的主！您为什么一个人孤零零的，让最悲哀的幻想做您的 伴侣，把您的思想念念不忘地集中在一个已死者的身上？无法挽回的事，只好听其 自然；事情干了就算了。 麦克白 我们不过刺伤了蛇身， 却没有把它杀死，它的伤口会慢慢平复过来， 再用它的原来的毒牙向我们的暴行复仇。可是让一切秩序完全解体，让活人、死人 都去受罪吧，为什么我们要在忧虑中进餐，在每夜使我们惊恐的恶梦的谑弄中睡眠 呢？我们为了希求自身的平安，把别人送下坟墓里去享受永久的平安，可是我们的 心灵却把我们磨折得没有一刻平静的安息，使我们觉得还是跟已死的人在一起，倒 要幸福得多了。邓肯现在睡在他的坟墓里；经过了一场人生的热病，他现在睡得好 好的，叛逆已经对他施过最狠毒的伤害，再没有刀剑、毒药、内乱、外患，可以加 害于他了。 麦克白夫人 算了算了， 我的好丈夫，把您的烦恼的面孔收起；今天晚上您必 须和颜悦色地招待您的客人。 麦克白 正是， 亲人；你也要这样。尤其请你对班柯曲意殷勤，用你的眼睛和 舌头给他特殊的荣宠。我们的地位现在还没有巩固，我们虽在阿谀逢迎的人流中浸 染周旋，却要保持我们的威严，用我们的外貌遮掩着我们的内心，不要给人家窥破。 麦克白夫人 您不要多想这些了。 麦克白 啊！ 我的头脑里充满着蝎子，亲爱的妻子；你知道班柯和他的弗里恩 斯尚在人间。 麦克白夫人 可是他们并不是长生不死的。 麦克白 那还可以给我几分安慰， 他们是可以伤害的；所以你快乐起来吧。在 蝙蝠完成它黑暗中的飞翔以前，在振翅而飞的甲虫应答着赫卡忒的呼召，用嗡嗡的 声音摇响催眠的晚钟以前，将要有一件可怕的事情干完。 麦克白夫人 是什么事情？ 麦克白 你暂时不必知道，最亲爱的宝贝，等事成以后，你再鼓掌称快吧。来， 使人盲目的黑夜，遮住可怜的白昼的温柔的眼睛，用你的无形的毒手，毁除那使我 畏惧的重大的绊脚石吧！天色在在朦胧起来，乌鸦都飞回到昏暗的林中；一天的好 事开始沉沉睡去，黑夜的罪恶的使者却在准备攫捕他们的猎物。我的话使你惊奇； 可是不要说话；以不义开始的事情，必须用罪恶使它巩固。跟我来。（同下。） |
| SCENE III. A park near the palace. Enter three Murderers First Murderer But who did bid thee join with us? Third Murderer Macbeth. Second Murderer He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers Our offices and what we have to do To the direction just. First Murderer Then stand with us. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch. Third Murderer Hark! I hear horses. BANQUO [Within] Give us a light there, ho! Second Murderer Then 'tis he: the rest That are within the note of expectation Already are i' the court. First Murderer His horses go about. Third Murderer Almost a mile: but he does usually, So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Make it their walk. Second Murderer A light, a light! Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch Third Murderer 'Tis he. First Murderer Stand to't. BANQUO It will be rain to-night. First Murderer Let it come down. They set upon BANQUO BANQUO O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. O slave! Dies. FLEANCE escapes Third Murderer Who did strike out the light? First Murderer Wast not the way? Third Murderer There's but one down; the son is fled. Second Murderer We have lost Best half of our affair. First Murderer Well, let's away, and say how much is done. Exeunt 第三场 同前。苑囿，有一路通王宫 三刺客上。 刺客甲 可是谁叫你来帮我们的？ 刺客丙 麦克白。 刺客乙 我们可以不必对他怀疑， 他已经把我们的任务和怎样动手的方法都指 示给我们了，跟我们得到的命令相符。 刺客甲 那么就跟我们站在一起吧。 西方还闪耀着一线白昼的余辉；晚归的行 客现在快马加鞭，要来找寻宿处了；我们守候的目标已经在那儿向我们走近。 刺客丙 听！我听见马蹄声。 班柯（在内）喂，给我们一个火把！ 刺客乙 一定是他；别的客人们都已经到了宫里了。 刺客甲 他的马在兜圈子。 刺客丙 差不多有一哩路； 可是他正像许多人一样，常常把从这儿到宫门口的 这一条路作为他们的走道。 刺客乙 火把，火把！ 刺客丙 是他。 刺客甲 准备好。 班柯及弗里恩斯持火炬上。 班柯 今晚恐怕要下雨。 刺客甲 让它下吧。（刺客等向班柯攻击。） 班柯 啊， 阴谋！快逃，好弗里恩斯，逃，逃，逃！你也许可以替我报仇。啊 奴才！（死。弗里恩斯逃去。） 刺客丙 谁把火灭了？ 刺客甲 不应该灭火吗？ 刺客丙 只有一个人倒下；那儿子逃去了。 刺客乙 我们工作的重要一部分失败了。 刺客甲 好，我们回去报告我们工作的结果吧。（同下。） |
| SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace. A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants MACBETH You know your own degrees; sit down: at first And last the hearty welcome. Lords Thanks to your majesty. MACBETH Ourself will mingle with society, And play the humble host. Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time We will require her welcome. LADY MACBETH Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends; For my heart speaks they are welcome. First Murderer appears at the door MACBETH See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks. Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst: Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. Approaching the door There's blood on thy face. First Murderer 'Tis Banquo's then. MACBETH 'Tis better thee without than he within. Is he dispatch'd? First Murderer My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him. MACBETH Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it, Thou art the nonpareil. First Murderer Most royal sir, Fleance is 'scaped. MACBETH Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing air: But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe? First Murderer Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a death to nature. MACBETH Thanks for that: There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow We'll hear, ourselves, again. Exit Murderer LADY MACBETH My royal lord, You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making, 'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. MACBETH Sweet remembrancer! Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! LENNOX May't please your highness sit. The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place MACBETH Here had we now our country's honour roof'd, Were the graced person of our Banquo present; Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity for mischance! ROSS His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness To grace us with your royal company. MACBETH The table's full. LENNOX Here is a place reserved, sir. MACBETH Where? LENNOX Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness? MACBETH Which of you have done this? Lords What, my good lord? MACBETH Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ROSS Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well. LADY MACBETH Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat; The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well: if much you note him, You shall offend him and extend his passion: Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man? MACBETH Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. LADY MACBETH O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool. MACBETH Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes LADY MACBETH What, quite unmann'd in folly? MACBETH If I stand here, I saw him. LADY MACBETH Fie, for shame! MACBETH Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY MACBETH My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. MACBETH I do forget. Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full. I drink to the general joy o' the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss; Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst, And all to all. Lords Our duties, and the pledge. Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO MACBETH Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with! LADY MACBETH Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. MACBETH What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence! GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes Why, so: being gone, I am a man again. Pray you, sit still. LADY MACBETH You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. MACBETH Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanched with fear. ROSS What sights, my lord? LADY MACBETH I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him. At once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. LENNOX Good night; and better health Attend his majesty! LADY MACBETH A kind good night to all! Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH MACBETH It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. What is the night? LADY MACBETH Almost at odds with morning, which is which. MACBETH How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person At our great bidding? LADY MACBETH Did you send to him, sir? MACBETH I hear it by the way; but I will send: There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow, And betimes I will, to the weird sisters: More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er: Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd. LADY MACBETH You lack the season of all natures, sleep. MACBETH Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed. Exeunt第四场 同前。宫中大厅 厅中陈设筵席。麦克白、麦克白夫人、洛斯、列诺克斯、群臣及侍从等上。 麦克白 大家按着各人自己的品级坐下来；总而言之一句话，我竭诚欢迎你们。 群臣 谢谢陛下的恩典。 麦克白 我自己将要跟你们在一起， 做一个谦恭的主人，我们的主妇现在还坐 在她的宝座上，可是我就要请她对你们殷勤招待。 麦克白夫人 陛下，请您替我向我们所有的朋友们表示我的欢迎的诚意吧。 刺客甲上，至门口。 麦克白 瞧， 他们用诚意的感谢答复你了；两方面已经各得其平。我将要在这 儿中间坐下来。大家不要拘束，乐一个畅快；等会儿我们就要合席痛饮一巡。（至 门口）你的脸上有血。 刺客甲 那么它是班柯的。 麦克白 我宁愿你站在门外，不愿他置身室内。你们已经把他结果了吗？ 刺客甲 陛下，他的咽喉已经割破了；这是我干的事。 麦克白 你是一个最有本领的杀人犯； 可是谁杀死了弗里恩斯，也一样值得夸 奖；要是你也把他杀了，那你才是一个无比的好汉。 刺客甲 陛下，弗里恩斯逃走了。 麦克白 我的心病本来可以痊愈， 现在它又要发作了；我本来可以像大理石一 样完整，像岩石一样坚固，像空气一样广大自由，现在我却被恼人的疑惑和恐惧所 包围拘束。可是班柯已经死了吗？ 刺客甲 是，陛下；他安安稳稳地躺在一条泥沟里，他的头上刻着二十道伤痕， 最轻的一道也可以致他死命。 麦克白 谢天谢地。大蛇躺在那里；那逃走了的小虫，将来会用它的毒液害人， 可是现在它的牙齿还没有长成。走吧，明天再来听候我的旨意。（刺客甲下。） 麦克白夫人 陛下， 您还没有劝过客；宴会上倘没有主人的殷勤招待，那就不 是在请酒，而是在卖酒；这倒不如待在自己家里吃饭来得舒适呢。既然出来作客， 在席面上最让人开胃的就是主人的礼节，缺少了它，那就会使合席失去了兴致的。 麦克白 亲爱的， 不是你提起，我几乎忘了！来，请放量醉饱吧，愿各位胃纳 健旺，身强力壮！ 列诺克斯 陛下请安坐。 班柯鬼魂上，坐在麦克白座上。 麦克白 要是班柯在座， 那么全国的英俊，真可以说是荟集于一堂了；我宁愿 因为他的疏怠而嗔怪他，不愿因为他遭到什么意外而为他惋惜。 洛斯 陛下， 他今天失约不来，是他自己的过失。请陛下上坐，让我们叨陪末 席。 麦克白 席上已经坐满了。 列诺克斯 陛下，这儿是给您留着的一个位置。 麦克白 什么地方？ 列诺克斯 这儿，陛下。什么事情使陛下这样变色？ 麦克白 你们哪一个人干了这件事？ 群臣 什么事，陛下？ 麦克白 你不能说这是我干的事；别这样对我摇着你的染着血的头发。 洛斯 各位大人，起来；陛下病了。 麦克白夫人 坐下， 尊贵的朋友们，王上常常这样，他从小就有这种毛病。请 各位安坐吧；他的癫狂不过是暂时的，一会儿就会好起来。要是你们太注意了他， 他也许会动怒，发起狂来更加厉害；尽管自己吃喝，不要理他吧。你是一个男子吗？ 麦克白 哦，我是一个堂堂男子，可以使魔鬼胆裂的东西，我也敢正眼瞧着它。 麦克白夫人 啊， 这倒说得不错！这不过是你的恐惧所描绘出来的一幅图画； 正像你所说的那柄引导你去行刺邓肯的空中的匕首一样。啊！要是在冬天的火炉旁， 听一个妇女讲述她的老祖母告诉她的故事的时候，那么这种情绪的冲动、恐惧的伪 装，倒是非常合适的。不害羞吗？你为什么扮这样的怪脸？说到底，你瞧着的不过 是一张凳子罢了。 麦克白 你瞧那边！ 瞧！瞧！瞧！你怎么说？哼，我什么都不在乎。要是你会 点头，你也应该会说话。要是殡舍和坟墓必须把我们埋葬了的人送回世上，那么鸢 鸟的胃囊将要变成我们的坟墓了。（鬼魂隐去。） 麦克白夫人 什么！你发了疯，把你的男子气都失掉了吗？ 麦克白 要是我现在站在这儿，那么刚才我明明瞧见他。 麦克白夫人 啐！不害羞吗？ 麦克白 在人类不曾制定法律保障公众福利以前的古代， 杀人流血是不足为奇 的事；即使在有了法律以后，惨不忍闻的谋杀事件，也随时发生。从前的时候，一 刀下去，当场毙命，事情就这样完结了；可是现在他们却会从坟墓中起来，他们的 头上戴着二十件谋杀的重罪，把我们推下座位。这种事情是比这样一件谋杀案更奇 怪的。 麦克白夫人 陛下，您的尊贵的朋友们都因为您不去陪他们而十分扫兴哩。 麦克白 我忘了。 不要对我惊诧，我的最尊贵的朋友们；我有一种怪病，认识 我的人都知道那是不足为奇的。来，让我们用这一杯酒表示我们的同心永好，祝各 位健康！你们干了这一杯，我就坐下。给我拿些酒来，倒得满满的。我为今天在座 众人的快乐，还要为我们亲爱的缺席的朋友班柯尽此一杯；要是他也在这儿就好了！ 来，为大家、为他，请干杯，请各位为大家的健康干一杯。 群臣 敢不从命。 班柯鬼魂重上。 麦克白 去！ 离开我的眼前！让土地把你藏匿了！你的骨髓已经枯竭，你的血 液已经凝冷；你那向人瞪着的眼睛也已经失去了光彩。 麦克白夫人 各位大人， 这不过是他的旧病复发，没有什么别的缘故；害各位 扫兴，真是抱歉得很。 麦克白 别人敢做的事， 我都敢：无论你用什么形状出现，像粗暴的俄罗斯大 熊也好，像披甲的犀牛、舞爪的猛虎也好，只要不是你现在的样子，我的坚定的神 经决不会起半分战栗；或者你现在死而复活，用你的剑向我挑战，要是我会惊惶胆 怯，那么你就可以宣称我是一个少女怀抱中的婴孩。去，可怕的影子！虚妄的揶揄， 去！（鬼魂隐去）嘿，他一去，我的勇气又恢复了。请你们安坐吧。 麦克白夫人 你这样疯疯癫癫的，已经打断了众人的兴致，扰乱了今天的良会。 麦克白 难道碰到这样的事， 能像飘过夏天的一朵浮云那样不叫人吃惊吗？我 吓得面无人色，你们眼看着这样的怪象，你们的脸上却仍然保持着天然的红润，这 才怪哩。 洛斯 什么怪象，陛下？ 麦克白夫人 请您不要对他说话；他越来越疯了；你们多问了他，他会动怒的。 对不起，请各位还是散席了吧；大家不必推先让后，请立刻就去，晚安！ 列诺克斯 晚安；愿陛下早复健康！ 麦克白夫人 各位晚安！（群臣及侍从等下。） 麦克白 流血是免不了的； 他们说，流血必须引起流血。据说石块曾经自己转 动，树木曾经开口说话；鸦鹊的鸣声里曾经泄露过阴谋作乱的人。夜过去了多少了？ 麦克白夫人 差不多到了黑夜和白昼的交界，分别不出是昼是夜来。 麦克白 麦克德夫藐视王命，拒不奉召，你看怎么样？ 麦克白夫人 你有没有差人去叫过他？ 麦克白 我偶然听人这么说； 可是我要差人去唤他。他们这一批人家里谁都有 一个被我买通的仆人，替我窥探他们的动静。我明天要趁早去访那三个女巫，听她 们还有什么话说；因为我现在非得从最妖邪的恶魔口中知道我的最悲惨的命运不可。 为了我自己的好处，只好把一切置之不顾。我已经两足深陷于血泊之中，要是不再 涉血前进，那么回头的路也是同样使人厌倦的。我想起了一些非常的计谋，必须不 等斟酌就迅速实行。 麦克白夫人 一切有生之伦，都少不了睡眠的调剂，可是你还没有好好睡过。 麦克白 来， 我们睡去。我的疑鬼疑神、出乖露丑，都是因为未经磨炼、心怀 恐惧的缘故；我们干这事太缺少经验了。（同下。） |
| SCENE V. A Heath. Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE First Witch Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. HECATE Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death; And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never call'd to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art? And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. But make amends now: get you gone, And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i' the morning: thither he Will come to know his destiny: Your vessels and your spells provide, Your charms and every thing beside. I am for the air; this night I'll spend Unto a dismal and a fatal end: Great business must be wrought ere noon: Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaporous drop profound; I'll catch it ere it come to ground: And that distill'd by magic sleights Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion: He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,' & c Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me. Exit First Witch Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again. Exeunt第五场 荒原 雷鸣。三女巫上，与赫卡忒相遇。 女巫甲 嗳哟，赫卡忒！您在发怒哩。 赫卡忒 我不应该发怒吗， 你们这些放肆大胆的丑婆子？你们怎么敢用哑谜和 有关生死的秘密和麦克白打交道；我是你们魔法的总管，一切的灾祸都由我主持支 配，你们却不通知我一声，让我也来显一显我们的神通？而且你们所干的事，都只 是为了一个刚愎自用、残忍狂暴的人；他像所有的世人一样，只知道自己的利益， 一点不是对你们存着什么好意。可是现在你们必须补赎你们的过失；快去，天明的 时候，在阿契隆⑤的地坑附近会我，他将要到那边来探询他的命运；把你们的符咒、 魔蛊和一切应用的东西预备齐整，不得有误。我现在乘风而去，今晚我要用整夜的 工夫，布置出一场悲惨的结果；在正午以前，必须完成大事。月亮角上挂着一颗湿 淋淋的露珠，我要在它没有堕地以前把它摄取，用魔术提炼以后，就可以凭着它呼 灵唤鬼，让种种虚妄的幻影迷乱他的本性；他将要藐视命运，唾斥死生，超越一切 的情理，排弃一切的疑虑，执着他的不可能的希望；你们都知道自信是人类最大的 仇敌。（内歌声，“来吧，来吧……”）听！他们在叫我啦；我的小精灵们，瞧， 他们坐在云雾之中，在等着我呢。（下。） 女巫甲 来，我们赶快；她就要回来的。（同下。） |
| SCENE VI. Forres. The palace. Enter LENNOX and another Lord LENNOX My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, Which can interpret further: 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! 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; For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive To hear the men deny't. So that, I say, He has borne all things well: and I do think That had he Duncan's sons under his key-- As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they should find What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance. But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell Where he bestows himself? Lord The son of Duncan, From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth Lives in the English court, and is received Of the most pious Edward with such grace That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward: That, by the help of these--with Him above To ratify the work--we may again Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives, Do faithful homage and receive free honours: All which we pine for now: and this report Hath so exasperate the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war. LENNOX Sent he to Macduff? Lord He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,' The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.' LENNOX And that well might Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel Fly to the court of England and unfold His message ere he come, that a swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country Under a hand accursed! Lord I'll send my prayers with him. Exeunt第六场 福累斯。宫中一室 列诺克斯及另一贵族上。 列诺克斯 我以前的那些话只是叫你听了觉得对劲， 那些话是还可以进一步解 释的；我只觉得事情有些古怪。仁厚的邓肯被麦克白所哀悼；邓肯是已经死去的了。 勇敢的班柯不该在深夜走路，您也许可以说——要是您愿意这么说的话，他是被弗 里恩斯杀死的，因为弗里恩斯已经逃匿无踪；人总不应该在夜深的时候走路。哪一 个人不以为马尔康和道纳本杀死他们仁慈的父亲，是一件多么惊人的巨变？万恶的 行为！麦克白为了这件事多么痛心；他不是乘着一时的忠愤，把那两个酗酒贪睡的 溺职卫士杀了吗？那件事干得不是很忠勇的吗？嗯，而且也干得很聪明；因为要是 人家听见他们抵赖他们的罪状，谁都会怒从心起的。所以我说，他把一切事情处理 得很好；我想要是邓肯的两个儿子也给他拘留起来——上天保佑他们不会落在他的 手里——他们就会知道向自己的父亲行弑，必须受到怎样的报应；弗里恩斯也是一 样。可是这些话别提啦，我听说麦克德夫因为出言不逊，又不出席那暴君的宴会， 已经受到贬辱。您能够告诉我他现在在什么地方吗？ 贵族 被这暴君篡逐出亡的邓肯世子现在寄身在英格兰宫廷之中， 谦恭的爱德 华对他非常优待，一点不因为他处境颠危而减削了敬礼。麦克德夫也到那里去了， 他的目的是要请求贤明的英王协力激励诺森伯兰和好战的西华德，使他们出兵相援， 凭着上帝的意旨帮助我们恢复已失的自由，使我们仍旧能够享受食桌上的盛馔和醋 畅的睡眠，不再畏惧宴会中有沾血的刀剑，让我们能够一方面输诚效忠，一方面安 受爵赏而心无疑虑；这一切都是我们现在所渴望而求之不得的。这一个消息已经使 我们的王上大为震怒，他正在那儿准备作战了。 列诺克斯 他有没有差人到麦克德夫那儿去？ 贵族 他已经差人去过了； 得到的回答是很干脆的一句：“老兄，我不去。” 那个恼怒的使者转身就走，嘴里好像叽咕着说，“你给我这样的答复，看着吧，你 一定会自食其果。” 列诺克斯 那很可以叫他留心留心远避当前的祸害。 但愿什么神圣的天使飞到 英格兰的宫廷里，预先替他把信息传到那儿；让上天的祝福迅速回到我们这一个在 毒手压制下备受苦难的国家！ 贵族 我愿意为他祈祷。（同下。） |
| SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Third Witch Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time. First Witch Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Enter HECATE to the other three Witches HECATE O well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i' the gains; And now about the cauldron sing, Live elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c HECATE retires Second Witch By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! Enter MACBETH MACBETH How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! What is't you do? ALL A deed without a name. MACBETH I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germens tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken; answer me To what I ask you. First Witch Speak. Second Witch Demand. Third Witch We'll answer. First Witch Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters? MACBETH Call 'em; let me see 'em. First Witch Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten From the murderer's gibbet throw Into the flame. ALL Come, high or low; Thyself and office deftly show! Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head MACBETH Tell me, thou unknown power,-- First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought. First Apparition Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. Descends MACBETH Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one word more,-- First Witch He will not be commanded: here's another, More potent than the first. Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child Second Apparition Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! MACBETH Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee. Second Apparition Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. Descends MACBETH Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder. Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand What is this That rises like the issue of a king, And wears upon his baby-brow the round And top of sovereignty? ALL Listen, but speak not to't. Third Apparition Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Descends MACBETH That will never be Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good! Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom? ALL Seek to know no more. MACBETH I will be satisfied: deny me this, And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this? Hautboys First Witch Show! Second Witch Show! Third Witch Show! ALL Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart! A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following MACBETH Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down! Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. A third is like the former. Filthy hags! Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes! What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more: And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass Which shows me many more; and some I see That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry: Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true; For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me, And points at them for his. Apparitions vanish What, is this so? First Witch Ay, sir, all this is so: but why Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites, And show the best of our delights: I'll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round: That this great king may kindly say, Our duties did his welcome pay. Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE MACBETH Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar! Come in, without there! Enter LENNOX LENNOX What's your grace's will? MACBETH Saw you the weird sisters? LENNOX No, my lord. MACBETH Came they not by you? LENNOX No, indeed, my lord. MACBETH Infected be the air whereon they ride; And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear The galloping of horse: who was't came by? LENNOX 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. MACBETH Fled to England! LENNOX Ay, my good lord. MACBETH Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits: The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it; from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: The castle of Macduff I will surprise; Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool; This deed I'll do before this purpose cool. But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen? Come, bring me where they are. Exeunt第四幕 第一场 山洞。中置沸釜 雷鸣。三女巫上。 女巫甲 斑猫已经叫过三声。 女巫乙 刺猬已经啼了四次。 女巫丙 怪鸟在鸣啸：时候到了，时候到了。 女巫甲 绕釜环行火融融， 毒肝腐脏寘其中。 蛤蟆蛰眠寒石底， 三十一日夜相继； 汗出淋漓化毒浆， 投之鼎釜沸为汤。 众巫（合）不惮辛劳不惮烦， 釜中沸沫已成澜。 女巫乙 沼地蟒蛇取其肉， 脔以为片煮至熟； 蝾螈之目青蛙趾， 蝙幅之毛犬之齿， 蝮舌如叉蚯蚓刺， 蜥蜴之足枭之翅， 炼为毒蛊鬼神惊， 扰乱人世无安宁。 众巫（合）不惮辛劳不惮烦， 釜中沸沫已成澜。 女巫丙 豺狼之牙巨龙鳞， 千年巫尸貌狰狞； 海底抉出鲨鱼胃， 夜掘毒芹根块块； 杀犹太人摘其肝， 剖山羊胆汁潺潺； 雾黑云深月蚀时， 潜携斤斧劈杉枝； 娼妇弃儿死道间， 断指持来血尚殷； 土耳其鼻鞑靼唇， 烈火糜之煎作羹； 猛虎肝肠和鼎内， 炼就妖丹成一味。 众巫（合）不惮辛劳不惮烦， 釜中沸沫已成澜。 女巫乙 炭火将残蛊将成， 猩猩滴血蛊方凝。 赫卡忒上。 赫卡忒 善哉尔曹功不浅， 颁赏酬劳利泽遍。 于今绕釜且歌吟， 大小妖精成环形， 摄人魂魄荡人心。（音乐，众巫唱幽灵之歌。） 女巫乙 拇指怦怦动， 必有恶人来； 既来皆不拒， 洞门敲自开。 麦克白上。 麦克白 啊，你们这些神秘的幽冥的夜游的妖婆子！你们在干什么？ 众巫（合）一件没有名义的行动。 麦克白 凭着你们的法术， 我吩咐你们回答我，不管你们的秘法是从哪里得来 的。即使你们放出狂风，让它们向教堂猛击；即使汹涌的波涛会把航海的船只颠覆 吞噬；即使谷物的叶片会倒折在田亩上，树木会连根拔起；即使城堡会向它们的守 卫者的头上倒下；即使宫殿和金字塔都会倾圮；即使大自然所孕育的一切灵奇完全 归于毁灭，连“毁灭”都感到手软了，我也要你们回答我的问题。 女巫甲 说。 女巫乙 你问吧。 女巫丙 我们可以回答你。 女巫甲 你愿意从我们嘴里听到答复呢，还是愿意让我们的主人们回答你？ 麦克白 叫他们出来；让我见见他们。 女巫甲 母猪九子食其豚， 血浇火上焰生腥； 杀人恶犯上刑场， 汗脂投火发凶光。 众巫（合）鬼王鬼卒火中来， 现形作法莫惊猜。 雷鸣。第一幽灵出现，为一戴盔之头。 麦克白 告诉我，你这不知名的力量—— 女巫甲 他知道你的心事；听他说，你不用开口。 第一幽灵 麦克白！ 麦克白！麦克白！留心麦克德夫；留心费辅爵士。放我回 去。够了。（隐入地下。） 麦克白 不管你是什么精灵， 我感谢你的忠言警告；你已经一语道破了我的忧 虑。可是再告诉我一句话—— 女巫甲 他是不受命令的。这儿又来了一个，比第一个法力更大。 雷鸣。第二幽灵出现，为一流血之小儿。 第二幽灵 麦克白！麦克白！麦克白！—— 麦克白 我要是有三只耳朵，我的三只耳朵都会听着你。 第二幽灵 你要残忍、 勇敢、坚决；你可以把人类的力量付之一笑，因为没有 一个妇人所生下的人可以伤害麦克白。（隐入地下。） 麦克白 那么尽管活下去吧， 麦克德夫；我何必惧怕你呢？可是我要使确定的 事实加倍确定，从命运手里接受切实的保证。我还是要你死，让我可以斥胆怯的恐 惧为虐妄，在雷电怒作的夜里也能安心睡觉。 雷鸣。第三幽灵出现，为一戴王冠之小儿，手持树枝。 麦克白 这升起来的是什么， 他的模样像是一个王子，他的幼稚的头上还戴着 统治的荣冠？ 众巫 静听，不要对它说话。 第三幽灵 你要像狮子一样骄傲而无畏， 不要关心人家的怨怒，也不要担忧有 谁在算计你。麦克白永远不会被人打败，除非有一天勃南的树林会冲着他向邓西嫩 高山移动。（隐入地下。） 麦克白 那是决不会有的事； 谁能够命令树木，叫它从泥土之中拔起它的深根 来呢？幸运的预兆！好！勃南的树林不会移动，叛徒的举事也不会成功，我们巍巍 高位的麦克白将要尽其天年，在他寿数告终的时候奄然物化。可是我的心还在跳动 着想要知道一件事情；告诉我，要是你们的法术能够解释我的疑惑，班柯的后裔会 不会在这一个国土上称王？ 众巫 不要追问下去了。 麦克白 我一定要知道究竟；要是你们不告诉我，愿永久的咒诅降在你们身上！ 告诉我。为什么那口釜沉了下去？这是什么声音？（高音笛声。） 女巫甲 出来！ 女巫乙 出来！ 女巫丙 出来！ 众巫（合）一见惊心，魂魄无主； 如影而来，如影而去。 作国王装束者八人次第上；最后一人持镜；班柯鬼魂随其后。 麦克白 你太像班柯的鬼魂了； 下去！你的王冠刺痛了我的眼珠。怎么，又是 一个戴着王冠的，你的头发也跟第一个一样。第三个又跟第二个一样。该死的鬼婆 子！你们为什么让我看见这些人？第四个！跳出来吧，我的眼睛！什么！这一连串 戴着王冠的，要到世界末日才会完结吗？又是一个？第七个！我不想再看了。可是 第八个又出现了，他拿着一面镜子，我可以从镜子里面看见许许多多戴王冠的人； 有几个还拿着两个金球，三根御杖。可怕的景象！啊，现在我知道这不是虚妄的幻 象，因为血污的班柯在向我微笑，用手指点着他们，表示他们就是他的子孙。（众 幻影消灭）什么！真是这样吗？ 女巫甲 嗯，这一切都是真的；可是麦克白为什么这样呆若木鸡？来，姊妹们， 让我们鼓舞鼓舞他的精神，用最好的歌舞替他消愁解闷。我先用魔法使空中奏起乐 来，你们就搀成一个圈子团团跳舞，让这位伟大的君王知道，我们并没有怠慢他。 （音乐。众女巫跳舞，舞毕与赫卡忒俱隐去。） 麦克白 她们在哪儿？ 去了？愿这不祥的时辰在日历上永远被人咒诅！外面有 人吗？进来！ 列诺克斯上。 列诺克斯 陛下有什么命令？ 麦克白 你看见那三个女巫吗？ 列诺克斯 没有，陛下。 麦克白 她们没有打你身边过去吗？ 列诺克斯 确实没有，陛下。 麦克白 愿她们所驾乘的空气都化为毒雾， 愿一切相信她们言语的人都永堕沉 沦！我方才听见奔马的声音，是谁经过这地方？ 列诺克斯 启禀陛下， 刚才有两三个使者来过，向您报告麦克德夫已经逃奔英 格兰去了。 麦克白 逃奔英格兰去了！ 列诺克斯 是，陛下。 麦克白 时间， 你早就料到我的狠毒的行为，竟抢先了一着；要追赶上那飞速 的恶念，就得马上见诸行动；从这一刻起，我心里一想到什么，便要立刻把它实行， 没有迟疑的余地；我现在就要用行动表示我的意志——想到便下手。我要去突袭麦 克德夫的城堡；把费辅攫取下来；把他的妻子儿女和一切跟他有血缘之亲的不幸的 人们一齐杀死。我不能像一个傻瓜似的只会空口说大话；我必须趁着我这一个目的 还没有冷淡下来以前把这件事干好。可是我不想再看见什么幻象了！那几个使者呢？ 来，带我去见见他们。（同下。） |
| SCENE II. Fife. Macduff's castle. Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS LADY MACDUFF What had he done, to make him fly the land? ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors. ROSS You know not Whether it was his wisdom or his fear. LADY MACDUFF Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his titles in a place From whence himself does fly? He loves us not; He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. All is the fear and nothing is the love; As little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason. ROSS My dearest coz, I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband, He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The fits o' the season. I dare not speak much further; But cruel are the times, when we are traitors And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and move. I take my leave of you: Shall not be long but I'll be here again: Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. My pretty cousin, Blessing upon you! LADY MACDUFF Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless. ROSS I am so much a fool, should I stay longer, It would be my disgrace and your discomfort: I take my leave at once. Exit LADY MACDUFF Sirrah, your father's dead; And what will you do now? How will you live? Son As birds do, mother. LADY MACDUFF What, with worms and flies? Son With what I get, I mean; and so do they. LADY MACDUFF Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin. Son Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for. My father is not dead, for all your saying. LADY MACDUFF Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father? Son Nay, how will you do for a husband? LADY MACDUFF Why, I can buy me twenty at any market. Son Then you'll buy 'em to sell again. LADY MACDUFF Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith, With wit enough for thee. Son Was my father a traitor, mother? LADY MACDUFF Ay, that he was. Son What is a traitor? LADY MACDUFF Why, one that swears and lies. Son And be all traitors that do so? LADY MACDUFF Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son And must they all be hanged that swear and lie? LADY MACDUFF Every one. Son Who must hang them? LADY MACDUFF Why, the honest men. Son Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them. LADY MACDUFF Now, God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father? Son If he were dead, you'ld weep for him: if you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father. LADY MACDUFF Poor prattler, how thou talk'st! Enter a Messenger Messenger Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known, Though in your state of honour I am perfect. I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: If you will take a homely man's advice, Be not found here; hence, with your little ones. To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage; To do worse to you were fell cruelty, Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you! I dare abide no longer. Exit LADY MACDUFF Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world; where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defence, To say I have done no harm? Enter Murderers What are these faces? First Murderer Where is your husband? LADY MACDUFF I hope, in no place so unsanctified Where such as thou mayst find him. First Murderer He's a traitor. Son Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain! First Murderer What, you egg! Stabbing him Young fry of treachery! Son He has kill'd me, mother: Run away, I pray you! Dies Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt Murderers, following her 第二场 费辅。麦克德夫城堡 麦克德夫夫人、麦克德夫子及洛斯上。 麦克德夫夫人 他干了什么事，要逃亡国外？ 洛斯 您必须安心忍耐，夫人。 麦克德夫夫人 他可没有一点忍耐； 他的逃亡全然是发疯。我们的行为本来是 光明坦白的，可是我们的疑虑却使我们成为叛徒。 洛斯 您还不知道他的逃亡究竟是明智的行为还是无谓的疑虑。 麦克德夫夫人 明智的行为！ 他自己高飞远走，把他的妻子儿女、他的宅第尊 位，一齐丢弃不顾，这算是明智的行为吗？他不爱我们；他没有天性之情；鸟类中 最微小的鹪鹩也会奋不顾身，和鸱鸮争斗，保护它巢中的众雏。他心里只有恐惧没 有爱；也没有一点智慧，因为他的逃亡是完全不合情理的。 洛斯 好嫂子， 请您抑制一下自己；讲到尊夫的为人，那么他是高尚明理而有 识见的，他知道应该怎样见机行事。我不敢多说什么；现在这种时世太冷酷无情了， 我们自己还不知道，就已经蒙上了叛徒的恶名；一方面恐惧流言，一方面却不知道 为何而恐惧，就像在一个风波险恶的海上漂浮，全没有一定的方向。现在我必须向 您告辞；不久我会再到这儿来。最恶劣的事态总有一天告一段落，或者逐渐恢复原 状。我的可爱的侄儿，祝福你！ 麦克德夫夫人 他虽然有父亲，却和没有父亲一样。 洛斯 我要是再逗留下去， 才真是不懂事的傻子，既会叫人家笑话我不像个男 子汉，还要连累您心里难过；我现在立刻告辞了。（下。） 麦克德夫夫人 小子，你爸爸死了；你现在怎么办？你预备怎样过活？ 麦克德夫子 像鸟儿一样过活，妈妈。 麦克德夫夫人 什么！吃些小虫儿、飞虫儿吗？ 麦克德夫子 我的意思是说，我得到些什么就吃些什么，正像鸟儿一样。 麦克德夫夫人 可怜的鸟儿！ 你从来不怕有人张起网儿、布下陷阱，捉了你去 哩。 麦克德夫子 我为什么要怕这些， 妈妈？他们是不会算计可怜的小鸟的。我的 爸爸并没有死，虽然您说他死了。 麦克德夫夫人 不，他真的死了。你没了父亲怎么好呢？ 麦克德夫子 您没了丈夫怎么好呢？ 麦克德夫夫人 嘿，我可以到随便哪个市场上去买二十个丈夫回来。 麦克德夫子 那么您买了他们回来，还是要卖出去的。 麦克德夫夫人 这刁钻的小油嘴；可也亏你想得出来。 麦克德夫子 我的爸爸是个反贼吗，妈妈？ 麦克德夫夫人 嗯，他是个反贼。 麦克德夫子 怎么叫做反贼？ 麦克德夫夫人 反贼就是起假誓扯谎的人。 麦克德夫子 凡是反贼都是起假誓扯谎的吗？ 麦克德夫夫人 起假誓扯谎的人都是反贼，都应该绞死。 麦克德夫子 起假誓扯谎的都应该绞死吗？ 麦克德夫夫人 都应该绞死。 麦克德夫子 谁去绞死他们呢？ 麦克德夫夫人 那些正人君子。 麦克德夫子 那么那些起假誓扯谎的都是些傻瓜， 他们有这许多人，为什么不 联合起来打倒那些正人君子，把他们绞死了呢？ 麦克德夫夫人 嗳哟，上帝保佑你，可怜的猴子！可是你没了父亲怎么好呢？ 麦克德夫子 要是他真的死了，您会为他哀哭的；要是您不哭，那是一个好兆， 我就可以有一个新的爸爸了。 麦克德夫夫人 这小油嘴真会胡说！ 一使者上。 使者 祝福您， 好夫人！您不认识我是什么人，可是我久闻夫人的令名，所以 特地前来，报告您一个消息。我怕夫人目下有极大的危险，要是您愿意接受一个微 贱之人的忠告，那么还是离开此地，赶快带着您的孩子们避一避的好。我这样惊吓 着您，已经是够残忍的了；要是有人再要加害于您，那真是太没有人道了，可是这 没人道的事儿快要落到您头上了。上天保佑您！我不敢多耽搁时间。（下。） 麦克德夫夫人 叫我逃到哪儿去呢？ 我没有做过害人的事。可是我记起来了， 我是在这个世上，这世上做了恶事才会被人恭维赞美，做了好事反会被人当作危险 的傻瓜；那么，唉！我为什么还要用这种婆子气的话替自己辩护，说是我没有做过 害人的事呢？ 刺客等上。 麦克德夫夫人 这些是什么人？ 众刺客 你的丈夫呢？ 麦克德夫夫人 我希望他是在光天化日之下你们这些鬼东西不敢露脸的地方。 刺客 他是个反贼。 麦克德夫子 你胡说，你这蓬头的恶人！ 刺客 什么！你这叛徒的孽种！（刺麦克德夫子。） 麦克德夫子 他杀死我了， 妈妈；您快逃吧！（死。麦克德夫夫人呼“杀了人 啦！”下，众刺客追下。） |
