Act 2, Scene 3 - Video Performance: Porter, Lines 1-19

Porter, Lines 1-19

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Act 2,

Scene 3

Lines 1-19

The Porter performs a speech from Act 2, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Macbeth.

myShakespeare | Macbeth 2.3 Performance: Porter, Lines 1-19

[Macbeth castle. Knocking offstage. Enter the Porter.]

Here's a knocking indeed. If a man were porter of

Hell gate, he should have old turning the key.

[Knocking offstage]

Knock, knock, knock. Who's there i' the name of

Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on

the expectation of plenty — come in time. Have napkins

enough about you, here you'll sweat for't.

[Knocking offstage]

Knock, knock. Who's there, in the other devil's name?

Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both

the scales against either scale, who committed treason

enough for God's sake yet could not equivocate to

heaven. O, come in, equivocator.

[Knocking offstage]

Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? Faith, here's an

English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French

hose. Come in, tailor, here you may roast your goose.

[Knocking offstage]

Knock, knock; never at quiet. What are you? But this

place is too cold for hell, I'll devil-porter it no further.

I had thought to have let in some of all professions that

go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.

[Knocking offstage]

Anon, anon. I pray you, remember the porter.