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Ross and Angus, Lines 90-108a
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Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 90-108a

Ross and Angus perform an excerpt of Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Macbeth. 

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.3 Performance: Ross and Angus, Lines 90-108a

Ross

The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
The news of thy success; and when he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his — silenced with that.
In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange images of death. As thick as hail
Came post with post, and every one did bear
Thy praises in his kingdom's great defense,
And poured them down before him.

Angus

                                                              We are sent
To give thee from our royal master thanks,
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.

Ross

And, for an earnest of a greater honor,
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor —
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane,
For it is thine.