No Fear Shakespeare

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

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	Original Text	Modern Text
	SECOND MURDERER A light, a light!	SECOND MURDERER Here comes a light! Here comes a light!
	THIRD MURDERER 'Tis he.	THIRD MURDERER That’s him.
	FIRST MURDERER Stand to ’t.	FIRST MURDERER Prepare yourselves.
	BANQUO It will be rain tonight.	BANQUO It will rain tonight.
	FIRST MURDERER Let it come down.	FIRST MURDERER Then let the rain come down.
	The MURDERERS attack BANQUO	The MURDERERS attack BANQUO.
20	BANQUO O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou may ’st revenge —O slave!	BANQUO Oh, this is treachery! Get out of here, good Fleance, run, run, run! Someday you can get revenge.—Oh, you bastard!
	BANQUO dies. Exit FLEANCE	BANQUO dies. FLEANCE escapes.
	THIRD MURDERER Who did strike out the light?	THIRD MURDERER Who put out the light?
	FIRSTMURDERER Was ’t not the way?	FIRST MURDERER Wasn’t that the best thing to do?
	THIRD MURDERER There’s but one down. The son is fled.	THIRD MURDERER There’s only one body here. The son ran away.
	SECOND MURDERER We have lost best half of our affair.	SECOND MURDERER We failed in half of our mission.
	FIRST MURDERER Well, let’s away and say how much is done.	FIRST MURDERER Well, let’s get out of here and tell Macbeth what we did accomplish.
	Exeunt	They exit.