© Gunnar Tómasson

9 May, 2017

I. Wherefore was that cry? – The Queene (my lord) is dead.

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v, First Folio 1623)

998624

18403 = Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with,

8343 = Drum and Colours.

Macbeth

21757 = Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,

23086 = The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength

19926 = Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,

13600 = Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:

25999 = Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours,

18203 = We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,

20078 = And beate them backward home. What is that noyse?

11226 = A Cry within of Women.

Seyton

15780 = It is the cry of women, my good Lord.

Macbeth

17369 = I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:

18952 = The time ha’s beene, my sences would haue cool’d

15646 = To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire

22673 = Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre

23924 = As life were in’t.  I haue supt full with horrors,

23242 = Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thought

21957 = Cannot once start me.  Wherefore was that cry?

Seyton

9748 = The Queene (my Lord) is dead.

Macbeth

12050 = She should haue dy’de heereafter;

20111 = There would haue beene a time for such a word:

22689 = To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,

17099 = Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,

15476 = To the last Syllable of Recorded time:

17611 = And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles

19767 = The way to dusty death.  Out, out, breefe Candle,

18629 = Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player,

23287 = That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,

13957 = And then is heard no more.  It is a Tale

15789 = Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury

8516 = Signifying nothing.

7575 = Enter a Messenger.

24832 = Thou com’st to vse thy Tongue: thy Story quickly.

Messenger

7775 = Gracious my Lord,

19101 = I should report that which I say I saw,

14701 = But know not how to doo’t.

Macbeth

6670 = Well, say sir.

Messenger

15838 = As I did stand my watch vpon the Hill

18364 = I look’d toward Byrnane, and anon me thought

10243 = The Wood began to moue.

Macbeth

5340 = Lyar, and Slaue.

Messenger

18076 = Let me endure your wrath, if’t be not so:

20255 = Within this three Mile may you see it coming.

8345 = I say, a mouing Groue.

Macbeth

10055 = If thou speak’st fhlse,¹

18528 = Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue

17658 = Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth,

16291 = I care not if thou dost for me as much.

13224 = I pull in Resolution, and begin

17039 = To doubt th’Equiuocation of the Fiend,

22333 = That lies like truth.  Feare not till Byrnane Wood

16360 = Do come to Dunsinane, and now a Wood

18605 = Comes toward Dunsinane.  Arme, arme, and out,

16608 = If this which he auouches, do’s appeare,

18415 = There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here.

12872 = I ‘ginne to be a-weary of the Sun,

24373 = And wish th’estate o’ th’world were now vndon.

20301 = Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke,

23954 = At least wee’l dye with Harnesse on our backe.    Exeunt.

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II. Monad – Harnesse on Macbeth’s backe

(Construction G. T.)

18299

         1 = Monad

3563 = Nature

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

1000 = Light of the World

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

The Last Judgement

  4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

18299

III. Make all our Trumpets speak, giue thē all breath

Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood & Death.

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. vi)

249286

  9113 = Drumme and Colours.

19374 = Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, and their Army,

7172 = with Boughes.

Malcolme

8308 = Now neere enough:

17607 = Your leauy Skreenes throw downe.

21946 = And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle)

20665 = Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne

21669 = Leade our first Battell.  Worthy Macduffe, and wee

19159 = Shall take vpon’s what else remaines to do,

10764 = According to our order.

Seyward

6575 = Fare you well:

21379 = Do we but finde the Tyrants power to night,

14394 = Let vs be beaten, if we cannot fight.

Macduffe

20169 = Make all our Trumpets speak, giue thē² all breath

22137 = Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood & Death.  Exeunt.

 8855 = Alarums continued.

249286

I + II + III = 998624 + 18299 + 249286 = 1266209

IV. Turne, Hell-hound turne. – Macbeth slaine.

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. vii)

1266209

   5476 = Enter Macbeth.

Macbeth

15484 = They haue tied me to a stake, I cannot flye,

21429 = But Beare-like I must fight the course.  What’s he

18595 = That was not borne of Woman?  Such a one

7765 = Am I to feare, or none.

10263 = Enter young Seyward.

Young Seyward

7727 = What is thy name?

Macbeth

11523 = Thou’lt be affraid to heare it.

Young Seyward

19453 = No: though thou call’st thy selfe a hoter name

7090 = Then any is in hell.

Macbeth

5982 = My name’s Macbeth.

Young Seyward

21449 = The diuell himselfe could not pronounce a Title

10790 = More hatefull to mine eare.

Macbeth

9407 = No: nor more fearefull.

Young Seyward

22027 = Thou lyest abhorred Tyrant, with my Sword

14238 = Ile proue the lye thou speak’st.

13390 = Fight, and young Seyward slaine.

Macbeth

13779 = Thou was’t borne of woman;

23840 = But Swords I smile at, Weapons laugh to scorne,

18390 = Brandish’d by man that’s of a Woman borne.     Exit.

9663 = Alarums.  Enter Macduffe.

Macbeth

20208 = That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face,

21181 = If thou beest slaine, and with no stroake of mine,

23482 = My Wife and Childrens Ghosts will haunt me still:

23363 = I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes

21372 = Are hyr’d to beare their Staues: either thou Macbeth,

19129 = Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge

19124 = I sheath againe vndeeded.  There thou should’st be,

18651 = By this great clatter, one of greatest note

16640 = Seemes bruited.  Let me finde him Fortune,

13369 = And more I begge not.      Exit.     Alarums.

11704 = Enter Malcolme and Seyward.

Seyward

19780 = This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:

18336 = The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,

17032 = The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,

18681 = The day almost it selfe professes yours,

8163 = And little is to do.

Malcolme

11136 = We haue met with Foes

10000 = That strike beside vs.

Seyward

16388 = Enter Sir, the Castle.         Exeunt.            Alarum.

5476 = Enter Macbeth.

Macbeth

16693 = Why should I play the Roman Foole, and dye

24275 = On mine owne sword?  whiles I see liues, the gashes

9054 = Do better vpon them.

5805 = Enter Macduffe.

Macduffe

11371 = Turne, Hell-hound, turne.

Macbeth

11812 = Of all men else I haue auoyded thee:

18887 = But get thee backe, my soule is too much charg’d

11602 = With blood of thine already.

Macduffe

7780 = I haue no words,

21684 = My voice is in my Sword, thou bloodier Villaine

18408 = Then tearmes can giue thee out.              Fight: Alarum

Macbeth

10798 = Thou loosest labour;

17585 = As easie may’st thou the intrenchant Ayre

20599 = With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed:

16274 = Let fall thy blade on vulnerable Crests,

16716 = I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld

10121 = To one of woman borne.

Macduffe

7989 = Dispaire thy Charme,

21275 = And let the Angell whom thou still hast seru’d

21484 = Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb

7417 = Vntimely ript.

   Macbeth  

17783 = Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;

16929 = For it hath Cow’d my better part of man:

15970 = And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu’d,

17113 = That palter with vs in a double sence,

19805 = That keepe the word of promise to our eare,

21110 = And breake it to our hope.  Ile not fight with thee.

Macduffe

9587 = Then yeeld thee Coward,

16489 = And liue to be the shew, and gaze o’ th’ time.

19059 = Wee’l haue thee, as our rarer Monsters are

15861 = Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ,

11568 = Heere may you see the Tyrant.

Macbeth

7518 = I will not yeeld

20881 = To kisse the ground before young Malcolmes feet,

16030 = And to be baited with the Rabbles curse,

18162 = Though Byrnane wood be come to Dunsinane,

17555 = And thou oppos’d, being of no woman borne,

16155 = Yet I will try the last.  Before my body,

18389 = I throw my warlike Shield:  Lay on Macduffe,

17524 = And damn’d be him, that first cries hold, enough.

11426 = Exeunt, fighting.  Alarums.

12691 = Enter Fighting, and Macbeth slaine.       

1266209

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¹ fhlse – First Folio text.

² thē – ē = e in calculation of Cipher Value.