But most of all why are they calling him the King hereafter? He is only the Thane of Glamis. The witches quickly disappear before Macbeth and Banquo get to question them further.
Soon after the witches" departure, Ross, the warrior who reported back to King Duncan arrives on the same path where Macbeth and Banquo are making their journey back home. Ross, as was ordered by King Duncan gives Macbeth his new title, the Thane of Cawdor. Instead of being pleased with the new robes he is given, Macbeth is even more curious than ever, with the witches" greetings to him still fresh in his mind. His curiosity gets the better of him and questions Ross.
"And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine." .
"The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrow'd robes?".
Angus, a messenger who came with Ross replies,.
"Who was the thane lives yet; but under heavy judgment bears that life which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined with those of Norway, or did line the rebel with hidden help and vantage, or that with both He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not; But treasons capital, confessed and proved, have overthrown him.".
At this point Macbeth is worried, and believes something evil may be informing him. .
"This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature? Present fears are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, hakes so my single state of man that function is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is but what is not.".
When Macbeth and Banquo reach Duncan's castle, Duncan greets both of them and treats them with total respect.
