DUNCAN
See, see, our honour'd hostess!
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,
And thank us for your trouble.

LADY MACBETH
All our service
In every point twice done and then done double
Were poor and single business to contend
Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,
And the late dignities heap'd up to them,
We rest your hermits.

DUNCAN
Where's the thane of Cawdor?
We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
We are your guest to-night.

Notes and Glossary
ACT I Scene 6 Line 399 [Hautboys] An early form of Oboe. [torches] torch bearers, who would be needed to give light within the castle. They add to the contrast between the darkness within and the light without. The castle itself is looking "like the innocent flower", with only the rnartlets in evidence, but the ravens are croaking behind the battlements! ACT I Scene 6 Line 410 Seat. Here used for 'site,' 'situation.' ACT I Scene 6 Line 411 Nimbly. Freshly. ACT I Scene 6 Line 414 Martlet. Misprinted 'barlet' in the First Folio. See Act ii "Tempest." ACT I Scene 6 Line 414 Temple-haunting. Frequenting churches. ACT I Scene 6 Line 414 Approve. Here used for 'prove,' 'testify.' See Act iii "All's Well." # ACT I Scene 6 Line 416 Wooingly. Invitingly. ACT I Scene 6 Line 416 Jutty .Projection. The only time the word is used in the Shakespeare canon. ACT I Scene 6 Line 417 Coigne of vantage. ' Advantageous corner,' 'convenient nook.' At the opening of Act v, sc 4, "Coriolanus," Menenius says "See you yond' coigne o' the Capitol, -yond' cornerstone?" ACT I Scene 6 Line 418 Procreant. In which it breeds. ACT I Scene 6 Line 424 God'ild. The question has been mooted whether the abbreviated phrase meant 'God yield,' meaning 'God reward,' or 'God shield,' meaning 'God protect,' but it probably does not bear the latter sense, because wherever Shakespeare has "God shield", he employs it to express 'God forbid.' ACT I Scene 6 Line 428 Poor and single business. Here "single" is not only used m its sense of 'weak,' 'feeble,' 'ineffectual'; it also has antithetical effect in juxtaposition with "double" m the previous line. ACT I Scene 6 Line 431 Late dignities. ' Lately conferred dignities. ' See Act ii "Henry V. " ACT I Scene 6 Line 432 Hertnits. Headsmen; persons dedicated to constant prayer on your behalf. See Act I "Two Gentlemen of Verona. ACT I Scene 6 Line 435 Purveyor. Here used for 'precursor,' 'one that arrives before, or :first.' ACT I Scene 6 Line 440 In compt. Here used to express 'in trust,' 'that which is to be accounted for.' See Act ii "Timon of Athens."

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