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Η φάσγανον τόδ εἰσορῶ τὸ πρόσθ ̓ ἐμοῦ, αὐτὴν δὲ προὐνεχθεῖσαν ἐς χέρας λαβήν ; Φέρ', ἁρπάσω σ· ἔχων περ οὔ, βλέπω σ' ἔτι πῶς οὖν σε, φάσμα δεινὸν, ὄμμασίν γ' ἰδεῖν ἔξεστ ̓ ἐναργές, χειρὶ δ ̓ οὐ λαβεῖν πάρα; ἆρ ̓ ἐκ πλάνης του κἀνακινήσεως φρενῶν ὄναρ πέφυκας ψευδὲς ουδ' ἐτήτυμον;— καὶ νῦν ὁρᾷν σ' ἔτ ̓ ἐστι, κοὐ μόλις τόδε, μορφῇ δ ̓ ὅμοιον τῷ γε νῦν εἱλκυσμένῳ· στίβον μὲ ὁδηγεῖς ὅνπερ ἔσπευδον πάλαι, τοίῳδε χρῆσθαι καὶ μ ̓ ἔδει ξυνεργάτη ἢ ταῖς μὲν ἄλλαις τὤμματ ̓ ἐστ ̓ αἰσθήσεσι ἐψευσμέν', ἤ τι μᾶλλον ἐμπείρως ἔχει καὶ νῦν ὁρῷ σε, καὶ φόνου σταλάγμασιν,

Which was not so before.-There's no such thing:

It is the bloody business, which informs

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse

The curtain'd sleep; now witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder
Alarm'd by his sentinel, the wolf,

Whose howl's his watch, thus, with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
The very stones prate of my where-about,

And take the present horror from the time,

Which now suits with it. While I threat, he lives.
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.

་༣..་

Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.

C

τοῖς πρόσθεν οὐκ ἐνοῦσιν, ἡματωμένον

λαβήν ἄκην θ ̓ — οὐ μὴν τάδ' οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει·

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ἡ φοινία δὲ πρᾶξις, ἥν τελειν χρεών, ὄσσοις ἔδειξε ταῦτ ̓ ἐμοῖς θεάματα

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Νῦν δὴ καλύψαι τῆς χθονός τό γ' ἥμισυ ἔοικε θάνατος, δυσσεβῆ τ ̓ ὀνείρατα φηλᾶσιν ὕπνον μαλθακών καλυμμάτων εἴσω κρυφέντα, καὶ μάγων ὁμηγύρεις ῥέζεσιν Ἑκάτῃ νερτέρων ὠχρᾷ θεᾷ φόνος δὲ δεινώψ, ῥυσὸς, ᾧ φύλαξ πάρα, βρύκημ' ἐγείρων, ὥστε σύμβολον, λύκος, ἔπ' ἔργον, οἷα φάσμα, κλεπτικῇ βάσει κρυφαῖος ἕρπει, νυκτέρου μοιχοῦ δίκην ̓Αλλ ̓, ὦ βέβαιον γῆς ἀκίνητον πέδον, μή μοι ποδῶν ἄκους, ὅπη τρέπω, ψόφον, στείχοντ ̓ ἄνωθε μὴ λίθοι λέξωσί με, τὸ δεινὸν ἐκ τῆς νυκτὸς ἐξαιρούμενοι, ὃ τῷ παρόντι ξυμφόρως μάλιστ ̓ ἔχει. Ἐν τῷ μὲ ἀπειλεῖν, οὗτός ἐστιν ἐν φάει, ψυχροὶ γὰρ ἔργοις εἰσὶν ἐν θερμοῖς λόγοι. Δράσων τόδ ̓ ἔργον εἶμι, σημαίνει δέ μοι

κώδων· σὺ δ ̓, ὦ ναξ, τοῦδε μή το κλύο λόφου

τοῦ προσκαλοῦντος θανασίμῳ κροτήματι ἢ πρὸς τὰ θεῖά σ ̓ ἢ τὰ νέρθε δώματα.

EDGAR LLOYD,

Reg. Schol. Salop. Alumnus.

Cf. Rhes. 205. πρέπουσαν ἔργῳ, κλεπτικοῖς τε βήμασι.

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