And what will you do now? How will you live? SON As birds do, mother. LADY MACDUFF What, with worms and flies? SON With what I get, I mean; and so do they. LADY MACDUFF Poor bird! Son My father is not dead, for all your saying. LADY MACDUFF Yes, he is dead. How wilt thou do for a Father? SON Nay, how will you do for a husband? LADY MACDUFF Why, I can buy me twenty at any market. SON Then you’ll buy ‘em to sell again. (pause) Was my father a traitor, mother? LADY MACDUFF Ay,that he was. SON What is a traitor? LADY MACDUFF Why, one that swears and lies. SON And be all traitors that do so? LADY MACDUFF Every one. Now, God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father? Act 5 SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle. Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman
And what will you do now? How will you live? SON As birds do, mother. LADY MACDUFF What, with worms and flies? SON With what I get, I mean; and so do they. LADY MACDUFF Poor bird! Son My father is not dead, for all your saying. LADY MACDUFF Yes, he is dead. How wilt thou do for a Father? SON Nay, how will you do for a husband? LADY MACDUFF Why, I can buy me twenty at any market. SON Then you’ll buy ‘em to sell again. (pause) Was my father a traitor, mother? LADY MACDUFF Ay,that he was. SON What is a traitor? LADY MACDUFF Why, one that swears and lies. SON And be all traitors that do so? LADY MACDUFF Every one. Now, God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father? Act 5 SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle. Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman