{"id":5479,"date":"2018-01-26T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5479"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:21:41","slug":"macbeth-act-iii-scene-i-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5479","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth:  Act III, Scene i; First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Macbeth &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Act III, Scene i &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Macbeth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This speech is used in our <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=5712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Benjamin Curns<\/a>.  And again with <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9009\">Graham Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here&nbsp;to open a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here&nbsp;to open up a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">modern version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>1038: <\/em>To be thus, is nothing, but to be safely thus<br><i>1039: <\/i>Our feares in <i>Banquo<\/i> sticke deepe,<br><i>1040: <\/i>And in his Royaltie of Nature reignes that<br><i>1041: <\/i>Which would be fear&#8217;d. &#8216;Tis much he dares,<br><i>1042: <\/i>And to that dauntlesse temper of his Minde,<br><i>1043: <\/i>He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,<br><i>1044: <\/i>To act in safetie. There is none but he,<br><i>1045: <\/i>Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,<br><i>1046: <\/i>My <i>Genius<\/i> is rebuk&#8217;d, as it is said<br><i>1047: <\/i><i>Mark Anthonies<\/i> was by <i>Caesar<\/i>. He chid the Sisters,<br><i>1048: <\/i>When first they put the Name of King vpon me,<br><i>1049: <\/i>And bad them speake to him. Then Prophet-like,<br><i>1050: <\/i>They hayl&#8217;d him Father to a Line of Kings.<br><i>1051: <\/i>Vpon my Head they plac&#8217;d a fruitlesse Crowne,<br><i>1052: <\/i>And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe,<br><i>1053: <\/i>Thence to be wrencht with an vnlineall Hand,<br><i>1054: <\/i>No Sonne of mine succeeding: if&#8217;t be so,<br><i>1055: <\/i>For <i>Banquo&#8217;s<\/i> Issue haue I fil&#8217;d my Minde,<br><i>1056: <\/i>For them, the gracious <i>Duncan<\/i> haue I murther&#8217;d,<br><i>1057: <\/i>Put Rancours in the Vessell of my Peace<br><i>1058: <\/i>Onely for them, and mine eternall Iewell<br><i>1059: <\/i>Giuen to the common Enemie of Man,<br><i>1060: <\/i>To make them Kings, the Seedes of <i>Banquo<\/i> Kings.<br><i>1061: <\/i>Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst,<br><i>1062: <\/i>And champion me to th&#8217; vtterance.<br><i>1063: <\/i>Who&#8217;s there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macbeth &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Act III, Scene i &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Macbeth This speech is used in our interview with Benjamin Curns. And again with Graham Stevens Click here&nbsp;to open a scanned version. Click here&nbsp;to open up a modern version. 1038: To be thus, is nothing, but to be safely thus1039: Our feares in Banquo sticke<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5479' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5479","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-1qn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9022,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5479\/revisions\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}