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Macbeth

Act III, Scene 2

The palace.
 
LADY MACBETH
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      Is Ban|quo gone | from court? \\
 
SERVANT
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      Aye, mad/am, but | returns | again | tonight.
 
LADY MACBETH
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      Say to | the king,| I would at|tend his | leisure,
               ,    ,
      For a / few words.  \\
 
SERVANT
       ,          ,
      Madam,| I will.
 
LADY MACBETH
                         T      T     T      ___
                      Nought's had, all's | spent,
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      Where our | desire | is got | without | content:
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      'Tis saf|er, to | be that | which we | destroy,
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      Than by | destruc|tion dwell | in doubt|ful joy.
           ,         ,     ,             ,       ,
      How now,| my lord,| why do | you keep | alone?
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      Of sor|riest fan|cies your com|panions | making,
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      Using | those^thoughts,| which should | indeed | have died
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      With them they think on: things without all remedy   ????
              ,        ,        ,             ,         ,
      Should be | without | regard:| what's done,| is done.
 
MACBETH
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      We have | scotched the | snake, not killed it:|
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      She'll close,| and be | herself,| whilst^our*/ poor malice
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      Remains | in dang|er of | her form|er tooth.
           ,          ,           ,          ,
      But let | the frame | of things | disjoint,
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      Both the | worlds | suffer,|     (tetra with prev) 
       ,             ,          ,         ,          ,
      Ere we | will eat | our meal | in fear,| and sleep
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      In the | afflic|tion of | these ter|rible dreams,
             ,          ,        ,       ,       2      ,
      That shake | us night|ly: bet|ter be | with the dead,
            ,        ,          ,            ,         ,
      Whom^we,| to gain | our peace,| have sent | to peace,
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      Than on | the tor|ture of | the mind | to lie
           ,        ,     ,
      In rest|less ec|stasy.
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      Duncan | is in | his grave:   (tri with prev)
       Tx     T     T       ,              ,     ,
      After life's fit|ful fev|er, he / sleeps well,   ??
        ,    2        ,          ,            ,           ,
      Treason has | done his | worst: nor | steel, nor | poison,
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      Malice do|mestic,| foreign | levy,| nothing,
            ,          ,
      Can touch | him furth|er.
 
LADY MACBETH
                                    ,    __   oo
                                  Come | on:|
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      Gentle | my lord,| sleek^ore | your rug|ged looks,
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      Be bright | and jov|ial among | your guests | tonight.
 
MACBETH
            ,         ,         ,       ,        ,
      So* shall | I love,| and so | I pray | be you:
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      Let your | remem|brance ap|ply to | Banquo*,  ??
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      Present | him em|inence, both | with eye | and tongue:
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      Unsafe | the while,| that we | must lave
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      Our hon|ors in | these flat|tering streams,  (tetra with prev)
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      And make | our fac|es viz|ards to | our hearts,
          ,         ,          ,
      Disguis|ing what | they are.
 
LADY MACBETH
                                    ,           ,
                                   You must | leave this.
 
MACBETH
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      O, full of scorp|ions is | my mind,| dear* wife:
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      Thou knowst,| that Ban|quo and | his Fle|ance lives.
 
LADY MACBETH
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      But in | them, na|ture's co|py's not | eterne.
 
MACBETH
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      There's^com|fort yet,| they are | assail|able,
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      Then be | thou joc|und: ere | the bat | hath flown
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      His cloist|ered flight,| ere to / black Hec|ate's^sum||mons
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      The shard-|borne beet/le, with | his drow|sy hums,
             ,             ,         ,
      Hath rung | night's^yaw|ning peal,  \\
              ,          ,        ,         ,         ,
      There shall | be done | a deed | of dread|ful note.
 
LADY MACBETH
        ,              ,
      What's to | be done?  \\
 
MACBETH
          ,   2     ,         ,          ,         ,
      Be in|nocent of | the know|ledge, dear|est chuck,
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      Till thou ap|plaud the | deed: Come, seel|ing night,
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      Scarf up the tend|er eye | of pit|iful day,
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      And with | thy bloo|dy and | invis|ible hand
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      Cancel | and tear | to pie|ces that / great bond,
              ,          ,    oo    ___      ,
      Which keeps | me pale.|    | Light | thickens,
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      And the / crow makes | wing to | the rook|y wood:
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      Good^things | of day | begin | to droop,| and drowse,
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      While^night's | black age/nts to | their preys | do rouse.
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      Thou marv|ellst at | my words:| but hold | thee still,
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      Things^bad | begun,| make strong | themselves | by ill:
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      So prith|ee go | with me.   \\
 
[Exeunt]

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