No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2, Page 2
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LADY MACDUFF
Fathered he is, and yet he’s fatherless.
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LADY MACDUFF
He has a father, and yet he is fatherless.
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ROSS
I am so much a fool, should I stay longer
It would be my disgrace and your discomfort.
I take my leave at once.
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ROSS
I have to go. If I stay longer, I’ll embarrass you and
disgrace myself by crying. I’m leaving now.
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LADY MACDUFF
Sirrah,
your father’s dead.
And what will you do now? How will you live?
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LADY MACDUFF
Young man, your father’s dead. What are you going to do
now? How are you going to live?
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SON
As birds do, Mother.
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SON
I will live the way birds do, Mother.
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LADY MACDUFF
What, with worms and flies?
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LADY MACDUFF
What? Are you going to start eating worms and flies?
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SON
With what I get, I mean, and so do they.
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SON
I mean I will live on whatever I get, like birds do.
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LADY MACDUFF
Poor bird! Thou ’dst never fear the net nor lime,
The pitfall nor the gin.
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LADY MACDUFF
You’d be a pitiful bird. You wouldn’t know
enough to be afraid of traps.
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SON
Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.
My father is not dead, for all your saying.
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SON
Why should I be afraid of them, Mother? If I’m a pitiful
bird, like you say, hunters won’t want me. No matter what
you say, my father is not dead.
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LADY MACDUFF
Yes, he is dead. How wilt thou do for a father?
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LADY MACDUFF
Yes, he is dead. What are you going to do for a father?
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SON
Nay, how will you do for a husband?
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SON
Maybe you should ask, what will you do for a husband?
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LADY MACDUFF
Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.
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LADY MACDUFF
Oh, I can buy twenty husbands at any market.
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