What Thou Art Promised Yet Do I Fear Thy Nature

• Intro
• Summary
• Modern English language
• Human activity one, Scene i
• Act 1, Scene two
• Human action 1, Scene 3
• Act 1, Scene 4
• Human action i, Scene 5
• Act i, Scene five Summary
• Act i, Scene six
• Act 1, Scene vii
• Act 2, Scene 1
• Act 2, Scene 2
• Act two, Scene iii
• Act two, Scene 4
• Human activity 3, Scene 1
• Act 3, Scene 2
• Human activity three, Scene iii
• Act 3, Scene four
• Act iii, Scene 5
• Act three, Scene 6
• Act 4, Scene 1
• Act iv, Scene two
• Human action iv, Scene 3
• Deed 5, Scene 1
• Act 5, Scene 2
• Act 5, Scene 3
• Act five, Scene 4
• Human activity 5, Scene 5
• Deed 5, Scene six
• Act v, Scene 7
• Act 5, Scene eight
• Human action 5, Scene 9
• Act 5, Scene 10
• Act 5, Scene 11
• Themes
• Quotes
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Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 5 Translation

A side-by-side translation of Human action 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth from the original Shakespeare into modern English.

Original Text	Translated Text
Source: Folger Shakespeare Library
Enter Macbeth'south Wife, lone, with a letter. LADY MACBETH, reading the letter of the alphabet They met me in the twenty-four hour period of success, and I take learned by the perfect'st 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. 5 Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of information technology came missives from the Rex, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor," by which title, earlier, these Weïrd Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with "Hail, rex that shalt be." This have I thought skillful to deliver 10 thee, my dear partner of greatness, that thou might'st non lose the dues of rejoicing by existence ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay information technology to thy centre, and farewell. Glamis one thousand art, and Cawdor, and shalt be 15 What thou art promised. Yet do I fright thy nature; It is too full o' thursday' milk of homo kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst exist groovy, Fine art not without ambition, merely without The disease should attend it. What thou wouldst xx highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou 'dst accept, corking Glamis, That which cries "Thus thou must practice," if grand accept 25 it, And that which rather m 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 valor of my tongue 30 All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. Enter Messenger. What is your tidings?	Lady Macbeth receives a letter of the alphabet from her husband, calling her his "love partner of greatness," and telling her all about his see with the witches and what they said. Lady Macbeth quickly decides three things: her husband is going to be king; he might be a little too meek to pull it off on his own; and...she's going to spur him into action.
MESSENGER The Rex comes here tonight. 35 LADY MACBETH Thousand 'rt mad to say information technology. Is not thy chief with him, who, were 't so, Would have informed for preparation? MESSENGER So please you, it is truthful. Our thane is coming. One of my fellows had the speed of him, 40 Who, virtually expressionless for jiff, had scarcely more Than would make up his bulletin.	A messenger enters to tell Lady Macbeth that the King, Duncan, is coming to Inverness tonight. Lady Macbeth thinks he must be wrong, considering surely her married man would send give-and-take if that was the case. The messenger says that Macbeth did send discussion, and he'll be there shortly himself.
LADY MACBETH Give him disposed. He brings great news. Messenger exits. The raven himself is hoarse 45 That croaks the fatal archway of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, yous spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And make full me from the crown to the toe summit-total Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. 50 Stop upwards thursday' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my roughshod purpose, nor keep peace between Th' upshot and it. Come to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, 55 Wherever in your sightless substances Y'all wait on nature's mischief. Come up, thick night, And mantle thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife run across not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark 60 To weep "Hold, agree!" 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 65 The hereafter in the instant.	While the messenger is in that location, Lady Macbeth says, "That'due south great news." When the messenger is gone, she says that the night Duncan spends at Inverness will exist his last night on globe. Then she appeals to the spirits to "unsex" her, and brand her more like a man and then that she tin acquit out the evil deeds that must be washed (killing the king, helping her husband kill the rex, whatever) without feeling bad about information technology or getting cold feet. When her husband enters, she tells him how excited she is about the news he shared in his alphabetic character. She can already experience what it will be like for him to exist King.
MACBETH My dearest honey, Duncan comes here tonight. LADY MACBETH And when goes hence? MACBETH Tomorrow, as he purposes. 70 LADY MACBETH O, never Shall lord's day that morrow run into! Your face, my thane, is equally a book where men May read foreign matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time. Acquit welcome in your eye, 75 Your hand, your natural language. Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't. He that's coming Must be provided for; and you lot shall put Tonight'due south great business into my dispatch, 80 Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. MACBETH We will speak further. LADY MACBETH Just look up articulate. To alter favor e'er is to fright. 85 Leave all the rest to me. They get out.	Macbeth tells his wife that Duncan will be staying with them tonight and leaving in the forenoon. Lady Macbeth says, "Oh no he won't. He'due south not going to see the dominicus rise tomorrow." She tells her husband to play innocent and leave everything to her—she'll accept care of the king. Macbeth, think, had decided to go out everything to risk, then he says, "We'll talk virtually this later." He's not quite as into the whole kill-the-rex plan every bit his wife is, which is how she idea he would be ("too total of the milk of human kindness"). That's why she plans to take the reins.

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