Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner
Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer,206
To add the death of you.
MALCOLM Merciful heaven-
[To Macduff ]
What, man, ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.208
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak209
Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids
it break.210
MACDUFF
My children too?
ROSS Wife, children, servants, all
That could be found.212
MACDUFF And I must be from thence?
My wife killed too?
ROSS I have said.
MALCOLM Be comforted.
Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge
To cure this deadly grief.
MACDUFF
He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hellkite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
219 At one fell swoop?
MALCOLM
220 Dispute it like a man.
MACDUFF I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man.
I cannot but remember such things were