The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it pays itself. Your highness' part
Is to receive our duties, and our duties
Are to your throne and state children and servants,
Which do but what they should by doing everything
27 Safe toward your love and honor.
KING DUNCAN Welcome hither.
28 I have begun to plant thee and will labor To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
30 That hast no less deserved nor must be known No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
And hold thee to my heart.
BANQUO There if I grow,
The harvest is your own.
KING DUNCAN My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves34
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland; which honor must39
Not unaccompanied invest him only,40
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,
And bind us further to you.
MACBETH
The rest is labor which is not used for you.
I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful
The hearing of my wife with your approach;
So, humbly take my leave.
KING DUNCAN My worthy Cawdor!
MACBETH [Aside]
The Prince of Cumberland-that is a step