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Macbeth, III. iv

Macb. It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;

Augures and understood relations have

By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth

The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?

Lady M. Almost at odds with morning, which is which.

Macb. How sayst thou, that Macduff denies his person

At our great bidding?

Lady M. Did you send to him, sir?

Macb. 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 M. You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

Macb. 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.

 124 Augures: auguries, interpretations of omens

understood relations; cf. n.

125 maggot-pies: magpies

choughs: jackdaws

128 How sayst thou: what sayst thou to this

142 strange and self-abuse: strange self-deception

143 initiate: novice's 