Act 1, Scene 3 - Video Performance: Banquo, Lines 39-47a

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Banquo, Lines 39-47a

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Act 1,

Scene 3

Lines 39-47a

Banquo performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Macbeth.

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.3 Performance: Banquo, Lines 39-47a

How far is't called to Forres?

[Enter Witches]

What are these,

So withered and so wild in their attire,

That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,

And yet are on't?

[To the witches]

Live you or are you aught

That man may question?

[The witches signal for Banquo to be silent]

You seem to understand me,

By each at once her chappy finger laying

Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,

And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

That you are so.