1 An Apparition of a bloody Child rises.
2 It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
3 Where we are, There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody.
4 But in these cases We still have judgement here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague th inventor.
5 And when we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure, let us meet, And question this most bloody piece of work To know it further.
6 We hear our bloody cousins are bestow'd In England and in Ireland; not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention.
7 Ha, good father, Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man's act, Threatens his bloody stage: by the clock 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.'
8 I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name: but there's no bottom, none, In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up The cistern of my lust; and my desire All continent impediments would o'erbear, That did oppose my will: better Macbeth Than such an one to reign.