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The same. Hall in the palace.
[A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and
Attendants]
MACBETH
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You know | your own | degrees,| sit down:
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At first | and last,| the hear|ty wel||come.
LORDS
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Thanks | to your maj|esty.|
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MACBETH
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Ourself | will min|gle with | soci|ety,
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And play | the hum|ble host: \\
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Our host|ess keeps | her state,| but in / best
time
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We will re|quire her | welcome. \\
LADY MACBETH
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Pronounce | it for | me sir,| to all | our
friends,
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For my | heart speaks, they | are wel|come.
[First Murderer appears at the door]
MACBETH
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See they | encount|er thee | with their / hearts'
thanks.
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Both^sides | are ev|en: here | I'll sit | in the
midst,
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Be large | in mirth,| anon | we'll drink | a
meas||ure
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The tab|le round.| There's^blood | upon | thy
face.
FIRST MURDERER
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'Tis Ban|quo's then. \\
MACBETH
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'Tis bet|ter thee | without,| than he | within.
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Is he | dispatched? \\
FIRST MURDERER
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My lord | his throat | is cut,| that I did || for
him.
MACBETH
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Thou art | the best | of the / cut-throats,
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Yet he's | good that | did the | like for |
Fleance:
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If thou | didst it,| thou art | the non|pareil.
FIRST MURDERER
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Most^roy|al sir
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Fleance | is 'scaped. (di with
prev)
MACBETH
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Then comes | my fit | again:
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I had | else been | perfect; (tri with
prev)
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Whole as | the marb|le, found|ed as | the rock,
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As broad,| and gene|ral, as | the cas|ing air:
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But^now | I am cab|ined, cribbed,| confined,|
bound in
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To sau|cy doubts,| and fears.| But Ban|quo's^safe?
FIRST MURDERER
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Aye, my | good* lord:| safe in | a ditch | he
bides,
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With twen|ty trench|ed gash|es on | his head;
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The least | a death | to na|ture.
MACBETH
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Thanks | for that:
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There the grown serp|ent lies,| the worm | that's
fled
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Hath na|ture that | in time | will ven|om breed,
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No* teeth | for the pres|ent. Get | thee gone,|
tomor||row
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We'll hear | ourselves | again.
[Exit Murderer]
LADY MACBETH
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My roy|al lord,
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You do | not give | the cheer:| the feast | is
sold
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That is not | often | vouched, while |'tis
a-|making:
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'Tis given, with welcome: to feed were
best at home: ????
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From thence,| the sauce | to meat | is
ce|remo||ny,
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Mee|ting were bare | without it.
MACBETH
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Sweet | remem|brancer: (tri with prev)
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Now* good | diges|tion wait | on ap|petite,
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And health | on both.
LENNOX
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May it please | your high|ness sit.
[The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place]
MACBETH
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Here had | we now | our count|ry's hon|or,
roofed,
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Were the graced | person | of our | Banquo |
present:
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Who, may I | rather | challenge | for
un|kindness,
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Than pi|ty for | mischance.
ROSS
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His ab|sence (sir)
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Lays^blame | upon | his prom|ise. Please | it
your high||ness
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To grace | us with | your roy|al comp|any?
MACBETH
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The tab|le's full.
LENNOX
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Here is a | place re|served sir.
MACBETH
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Where? \\
LENNOX
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Here my | good lord.
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What is it
| that moves | your high||ness?
MACBETH
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Which | of you | have done | this?
LORDS
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What,| my good lord?
MACBETH
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Thou canst | not say | I did | it: nev|er shake
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Thy go|ry locks | at me. \\
ROSS
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Gentle|men rise,| his high|ness is / not well.
LADY MACBETH
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Sit worthy friends:| my lord | is of|ten thus,
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And hath | been from | his youth.| Pray you keep
seat,
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The fit | is mo|mentary,| upon | a thought
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He will | again | be well.| if much | you note ||
him
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You | shall offend | him, and | extend | his
pas||sion,
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Feed,| and regard | him not.| Are you | a man?
MACBETH
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Aye, and | a bold | one, that | dare look *on
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Which might | appall | the devil.
LADY MACBETH
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O prop|er stuff:
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This is | the ve|ry paint|ing of | your fear:
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This is the | air-drawn dag|ger which | you said
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Led you | to Dun|can. O,| these flaws | and
starts
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(Impos|tors to / true fear)| would well | become
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A wom|an's sto|ry, at | a wint|er's fire
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Autho|rized by | her grand|am: shame | itself,
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Why do | you make | such fac|es? When / all's
done
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You look | but on | a stool.
MACBETH
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Prithee,| see* there:
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Behold,| look,| lo,| how say you:
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Why* what | care I,| if thou canst^|nod, speak
too.
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If charn|el hous|es, and | our graves | must^send
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Those that | we bu|ry, back;| our mon|uments
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Shall be | the maws | of kites. \\
[GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]
LADY MACBETH
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What?| Quite un|manned in | folly.
MACBETH
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If I | stand here, I | saw him. (tetra with
prev)
LADY MACBETH
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Fie for | shame. \\
MACBETH
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Blood hath | been shed | ere now,| in the old|en
time,
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Ere hum|an sta|tute purged | the gent|le weal:
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Aye, and | since too, murd|ers have been |
performed
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Too ter|rible for | the ear.| The times | have
been,
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That when | the brains | were out,| the man |
would die,
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And there | an end:| but now | they rise | again
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With twen|ty mort|al murd|ers on | their crowns,
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And push | us from | our stools.| This is | more
strange
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Than such | a murd|er is.
LADY MACBETH
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My worth|y lord
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Your nob|le friends | do lack | you.
MACBETH
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I do | forget:
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Do not | muse at | me, my / most worth|y friends,
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I have | a strange | infirm|ity, which | is
noth||ing
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To those that know me. Come, love and health
to all, ????
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Then I'll | sit^down:| Give me some | wine,
fill full:
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I drink | to the gene|ral joy | of the whole | table,
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And to our | dear friend Ban|quo, whom | we miss:
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Would he | were here:| to all,| and him | we
thirst,
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And all | to all.
LORDS
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Our dut|ies, and | the pledge.
MACBETH
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Avaunt,| and quit | my sight,| let the earth | hide thee:
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Thy bones | are mar|rowless,| thy blood | is
cold:
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Thou hast | no spec|ula|tion in | those eyes
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Which thou | dost glare | with.
LADY MACBETH
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Think of this | good peers
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But as a | thing of | custom:| 'tis no | other,
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Only | it spoils | the pleas|ure of | the time.
MACBETH
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What | man | dare,| I | dare:
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Approach | thou like | the rug|ged Rus|sian bear,
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The armed | rhino|ceros,| or the Hyr|can tiger,
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Take^an|y shape | but that,| and my / firm nerves
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Shall nev|er trem|ble. Or | be alive | again,
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And dare | me to | the de|sert with | thy sword:
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If trem|bling I | inhab|it then,| protest || me
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The ba|by of a girl.| Hence hor/rible | shadow,
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Unreal mock|ery hence.| Why so,| being gone
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I am | a man | again:| Pray you | sit still.
LADY MACBETH
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You have displaced the mirth, ????
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Broke the
good meeting, with most admired disorder. ????
MACBETH
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Can such | things^be, ????
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And ov|ercome | us like | a sum|mer's cloud,
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Without | our spe|cial wonder?| You make |
me strange ??
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Even | to the dis|posi|tion that | I owe,
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When now | I think | you can be|hold such
sights,
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And keep | the na|tural ru|by of | your cheeks,
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When mine | is blanched | with fear.
ROSS
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What sights,| my lord?
LADY MACBETH
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I pray | you speak | not: he | grows worse and
worse
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Question | enrag|es him:| At once,| good^night.
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Stand not u|pon the ord|er of | your going,
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But go | at once.
LENNOX
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Good night,| and bet|ter health
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Attend | his maj|esty.
LADY MACBETH
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A kind | good night | to all.
[Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH]
MACBETH
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It will | have blood | they say:
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Blood will |
have blood:
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Stones have | been known | to move,| and trees |
to speak:
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Augurs,| and und|erstood | rela|tions, have
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By mag|got-pies,| and choughs,| and rooks brought
forth
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The sec|retst man | of blood.| What is | the
night?
LADY MACBETH
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Almost | at odds | with morn|ing, which | is
which.
MACBETH
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How sayst | thou that Mac|duff de|nies his | person
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At our great | bidding?
LADY MACBETH
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Did you | send to | him sir?
MACBETH
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I hear | it by | the way:| but I | will send:
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There's^not | a one | of them | but in | his
house
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I keep | a serv|ant fee'd.| I will | tomor||row
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(And | betimes | I will)| to the weird | sisters.
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More shall | they speak:| for now | I am bent |
to know
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By the worst | means, the | worst, for | mine own
good,
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All* caus|es shall / give way.| I am | in blood
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Stepped in so far,| that should | I wade | no* more,
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Return|ing were | as ted|ious as / go ore:
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Strange things I have | in head,| that will | to
hand,
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Which must | be act|ed, ere | they may | be
scanned.
LADY MACBETH
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You lack | the seas|on of / all na|tures, sleep.
MACBETH
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Come, we'll | to sleep:| my strange | and self-|abuse
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Is the i|nitiate | fear, that | wants hard use:
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We are | yet but | young in|deed.|
[Exeunt]