midnight
If the King of Scotland can scarcely make head against his nobles , even now when he can hold up before them an unsullied and honourable banner , who would follow a prince that is blackened with the death of an uncle and the imprisonment of a father ? Why , man , thy policy were enough to revolt a heathen divan , to say nought of the council of a Christian nation . Thou wert my tutor , Ramorny , and perhaps I might justly upbraid thy lessons and example for some of the follies which men chide in me . Perhaps , if it had not been for thee , I had not been standing at midnight in this fool 's guise -LRB- looking at his dress -RRB- , to hear an ambitious profligate propose to me the murder of an uncle , the dethronement of the best of fathers . Since it is my fault as well as thine that has sunk me so deep in the gulf of infamy , it were unjust that thou alone shouldst die for it . But dare not to renew this theme to me , on peril of thy life ! I will proclaim thee to my father -- to Albany -- to Scotland -- throughout its length and breadth .