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Macbeth's castle.
[Hautboys and torches. Enter a Steward, and diverse Servants with dishes and
service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH]
MACBETH
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If it | were done,| when 'tis | done, then
|'twere* well,
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It were done | quickly:| if the as|sassi|nation
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Could tram|mel up | the cons|equence,| and catch
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With his / surcease,| success:| that but | this
blow
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Might be | the be-|all, and the | end-all. Here,
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But here,| upon | this bank | and shoal | of
time,
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We'd jump | the life | to come.| But in these |
cases,
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We still | have judg|ment here,| that we | but
teach
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Bloody | instruc|tions, which | being taught,|
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To plague | the inventor.| This even-|handed | justice
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Commends | the ingred|ients of | our pois|oned
chalice
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To our / own lips.| He's here | in doub|le trust;
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First, as | I am his | kinsman,| and his |
subject,
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Strong both against | the deed:| then as | his
host,
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Who should | against | his murd|erer shut | the door,
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Not bear | the knife | myself.| Besides,| this
Dun||can
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Hath borne | his fac|ulties | so* meek;| hath been
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So clear | in his great | office,| that his |
virtues
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Will plead | like^ang|els, trump|et-tongued |
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The deep | damna|tion of | his tak|ing-off:
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And pi|ty, like | a naked | new-born babe,
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Striding | the blast,| or heaven's | cheru|bim,
horsed
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Upon | the sight|less cour|iers of | the air,
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Shall blow | the hor|rid deed | in eve|ry eye,
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That tears | shall drown | the wind.| I have | no spur
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To prick | the sides | of my | intent,| but
on||ly
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Vault|ing ambi|tion, which^/oreleaps | itself,
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And falls | on anoth|er. How | now? What news?
LADY MACBETH
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He has al|most supped:| why have you | left
the | chamber?
MACBETH
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Hath he | asked for | me?
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Know you | not, he | has? (tri with prev)
MACBETH
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We will pro|ceed no | further | in this |
business:
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He hath | honored | me of | late, and I | have
bought
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Golden o|pinions | from all | sorts of | people,
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Which^would | be worn | now in | their new|est gloss,
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Not cast | aside | so soon.
LADY MACBETH
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Was the / hope drunk,
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Wherein | you dressed | yourself?| Hath it /
slept since?
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And wakes | it now | to look | so green,| and
pale,
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At what | it did | so free|ly? From | this time,
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Such I | account | thy love.| Art thou | afeard
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To be | the same | in thine^own | act, and |
valor,
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As thou | art^in | desire?| Wouldst thou | have
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Which thou | esteemst | the orn|ament | of life,
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And live | a cow|ard in | thine^own | esteem?
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Letting I | dare not, wait | upon | I would,
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Like the poor cat | in the a|dage.
MACBETH
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prith|ee peace:
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I dare | do all | that may | become | a man,
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Who dares | do more,| is none.
LADY MACBETH
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What beast | was it then,
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That made | you break | this ent|erprise | to me?
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When you / durst do | it, then | you were | a
man:
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And to | be more | than what | you were,| you
would
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Be so | much^more | the man.| Nor time,| nor place
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Did^then | adhere,| and yet | you would / make
both:
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They have made | themselves,| and that | their
fit|ness now
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Does^un|make you.| I have / given suck,| and know
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How tend|er 'tis | to love | the babe | that
milks me,
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I would,| while it was | smiling | in my face,
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Have plucked | my nip|ple from | his bone|less
gums,
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And dashed | the brains | out, had | I so sworn
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As you | have done | to this.
MACBETH
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If we | should fail?
LADY MACBETH
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We | fail? \\
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But screw | your cour|age to | the stick|ing-place,
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And we'll / not fail:| When Dun|can is | asleep,
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(Whereto | the rath|er shall his / day's hard |
journey
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Soundly | invite | him) his / two chamb|erlains
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Will I | with wine | and was|sail so | convince
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That mem|ory,| the ward|er of | the brain,
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Shall be | a fume,| and the re|ceipt of | reason
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A lim|beck^on|ly; when | in swin|ish sleep,
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Their drench|ed na|tures lie | as in | a death,
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What can|not you | and I | perform | upon
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The unguard|ed Dun|can? What | not put | upon
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His spon|gy of|ficers, who | shall bear | the
guilt
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Of our great | quell.
MACBETH
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Bring forth | men*-child|ren on||ly:
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For | thy undaun|ted met|tle should | compose
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Nothing | but males.| Will it | not be | received,
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When we | have marked | with blood | those
sleep|y two
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Of his own | chamber, and | used their | very |
daggers, ??
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That they | have done it?
LADY MACBETH
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Who dares | receive it | other,
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As we | shall make | our griefs | and clam|or roar,
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Upon | his death?
MACBETH
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I am set|tled, and / bend up
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Each cor|poral ag|ent to | this ter|rible feat.
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Away,| and mock | the time | with fair|est show,
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False^face | must^hide,| what the false | heart doth
know.
[Exeunt]