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Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!

First Apparition
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!
Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough.
  He descends.
Macbeth
Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks.
Thou hast harped my fear aright. But one word more—
First Witch
He will not be commanded. Here’s another
More potent than the first.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.

  Thunder. Second Apparition, a Bloody Child.
Second Apparition
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!—
Macbeth
Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.
Second Apparition
Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
  He 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 vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
  He descends.

Source:
Act 4
Scene 1
Line 81

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