Introducing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

[Panache]

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.




Every year my lovely Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess and I look forward to Halloween. This year we decided our costumes far in advance. Our combined birthday and anniversary gifts to each other came from Ravenswood Leather and we ordered them at the Pleasanton Games.

Ladies and Gentlemen of XMTS, may I introduce to you Macbeth and Lady Macbeth




LADY MACBETH : But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.



MACBETH : 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.



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.




LADY MACBETH : 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!









LADY MACBETH : Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.






To be continued...

[TheSp8]

I'm liking that Celtic cross with the skull in the middle. I'd probably have that out all year. Nothing like a tribute to the Bard.

YMOS,
Tony

[Panache]

MACBETH : 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.



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!



Second Apparition : Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth



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.




MACBETH : To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.



MACBETH : I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'




And to finish let me quote the wonderful Reduced Shakespeare Company's summation of "The Scottish Play"


That never was there a story of blood and death
Than this, O' Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM JAMIE AND STAR!

[Panache]

The Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess' leather dress and my leather doublet were made by Ravenswood Leather

http://www.ravenswoodleather.com/

She choose the Saberist Dress

http://www.ravenswoodleather.com/Dresses/saberist.html

And I choose the Ulster Ionar jerkin

http://www.ravenswoodleather.com/Jerkins/ionar.html


We were both very pleased at the quality and service we recieved from Ravenswood Leather and recommend them

Our thanks to the lovely Larkin of Ravenswood Leather who assisted both of us at the Pleasanton Highland Games

Cheers

Jamie

[McMurdo]

You two just have far too much fun at Halloween, you both look great. Very well put together, just one thing, was Star ever able to get that damned spot out?

[Zardoz]

You guys look fantastic! Ravenswood really does some really great work, just about everyone I know in the faire community has some of their stuff.

[Bigkahuna]

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this noble son of................California????

[Highlander31]

Bravo,...Bravo.... You two look great.

I toast your ingenuity and sense of style.

[Rollo]

Excellent, jamie !

[Ancienne Alliance]

Very impressive.

Bravo !


Robert