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Macbeth

Act V, Scene 3

Dunsinane. A room in the castle.
 
[Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants]
 
MACBETH
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      Bring me | no more | reports,| let^them / fly all:
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      Till Birn|am wood | remove | to Dun|sinane,
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      I can|not taint | with fear.| What's^the boy | Malcolm?
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      Was he not | born of | woman?| The spirits | that know
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      All mort|al con|sequen|ces, have pronounced | me thus:  ??
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      Fear* not | Macbeth,| no man | that's born | of wom||an
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      Shall ere | have power | upon | thee. Then / fly false || Thanes,
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      And | mingle | with the Eng|lish ep|icures,
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      The mind | I sway | by, and | the heart | I bear,
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      Shall nev|er sag | with doubt,| nor shake | with fear.
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      The dev|il damn | thee black,| thou cream-|faced^loon:
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      Where gotst | thou that | goose look.
 
SERVANT
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                                           There | is ten || thousand
 
MACBETH
       ___     ,
      Geese | villain?
 
SERVANT
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                       Soldiers | sir.
 
MACBETH
           ,           ,        ,      ,          ,
      Go prick | thy face,| and ov|er-red | thy fear
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      Thou li|ly-liv|ered boy.| What* sol|diers, patch?
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      Death of | thy soul,| those lin|en cheeks | of thine
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      Are couns|ellors | to fear.| What sol|diers whey-||face?
 
SERVANT
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      The | English | force, so | please you.
 
MACBETH
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        Take thy || face hence. Sey|ton, I | am sick | at heart,
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      When I | behold:| Seyton,| I say,| this push
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      Will cheer | me ev|er, or | disseat | me now.
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      I have / lived long | enough:| my way | of life
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      Is fal|len in|to the sear,| the yel|low leaf,
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      And that | which should | accomp|any / old age,
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      As hon|or, love,| obed|ience, troops | of friends,
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      I must | not look | to have:| but in | their stead,
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      Curses,| not loud | but deep, mouth hon|or, breath
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      Which the poor | heart would | fain de|ny, and | dare not.
       ,
      Seyton?
 
SEYTON
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              What's your | gracious | pleasure?
 
MACBETH
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                                                 What news || more*?
 
SEYTON
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      All | is confirmed | my lord,| which was | repor||ted.
 
MACBETH
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      I'll fight,| till from | my bones,| my flesh | be hacked.
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      Give me | my arm|or.
 
SEYTON
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                          'Tis / not need|ed yet.
 
MACBETH
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      I'll put | it on:    \\
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Send^out | more* hors|es, skirr | the count|ry round,
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      Hang those^|that talk | of fear.| Give me mine^|armor:  ??
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      How does | your pa|tient, doc|tor?   ????
 
DOCTOR
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      Not | so sick | my lord,   ????
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      As she | is troub|led with thick | coming | fancies
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      That keep | her from | her rest.
 
MACBETH
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                                      Cure of | that:
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      Canst^thou | not min|ister | to a mind | diseased,
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      Pluck from the | memo|ry a | rooted | sorrow,
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      Raze^out | the writ|ten troub|les of | the brain,
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      And with | some* sweet | obliv|ious ant|idote
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      Cleanse the | stuffed bos/om, of | that per|ilous stuff
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      Which weighs | upon | the heart?
 
DOCTOR
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                                       Therein the | patient
        ,   ,           ,      __    oo
      Must min/ister | to him|self.|
 
MACBETH
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      Throw phys/ic to | the dogs,| I'll none / of it.
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      Come, put*| mine arm|or on:| give me | my staff:
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      Seyton,| send^out:| Doctor,| the Thanes | fly from me:
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      Come sir,| dispatch.| If thou | couldst doc|tor, cast
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      The wat|er of | my land,| find her | disease,
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      And purge | it to | a sound | and pristine health,
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      I would ap|plaud thee / to the | very | echo,
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      That should | applaud | again.| Pull it off | I say,
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      What rhu|barb, cyme, or what | purga|tive drug
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      Would scour | these Eng|lish hence:| Hearst thou | of them?
 
DOCTOR
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      Aye my | good* lord:| your roy|al pre|para||tion
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      Makes | us hear | something.
 
MACBETH
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                                 Bring it | after me:
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      I will | not be | afraid | of death | and bane,
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      Till Birn|am for|est come | to Dun|sinane.
 
DOCTOR
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      Were I | from Dun|sinane | away,| and clear,
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      Profit | again | should hard|ly draw | me here.
 
[Exeunt]

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