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THE CASTLE OF KING MACBETH.
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This is the castle of King Macbeth.And here he feasts, when the daylight wanes,
And the moon is abroad o'er the blasted heath,
His earls and thanes.
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A hundred harpers, with harps of gold,Harp thorough the night high festival:
And the revelling music thereof is roll'd
From hall to hall,
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While the wassailers shout till the rafters rockO'er the ringing board: and their shout is borne
To the courts outside where the crowing cock
Is waked ere morn.
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But there is one room of that castle old,In a cobwebb'd turret,—a dismal room,
For in it a corpse sits crown'd and cold.
There are four know whom.
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One of those four the king must be:But the secret is his, and he keepeth it well.
The others that know are the witches three:
But they are in hell.
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