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Excerpt from Stories of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Act I. When the curtain rises we perceive a desert place, between the upper and under world, illuminated by weird lightning flashes, where three Witches suddenly appearing, exchange greetings, and decide to meet Macbeth upon the heath, after the battle is over. Then they vanish, chanting the weird refrain, Fair is foul, and foul is fair!' In the next scene we behold the camp where the Scotch king, Duncan, eagerly questions a bloody messenger who announces his troops are fighting bravely, and that Macbeth in particular has done wonders, having conquered the worst of the rebels and fixed his head upon the battlements. Full of admiration for a feat which will assure his mastery in the realm, Duncan further learns with joy that the Norsemen, who recently made a descent upon his kingdom, are to be met by Banquo and Mac beth, who long to annihilate them also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
