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...