No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 5, Scene 1, Page 3
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GENTLEWOMAN
She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows
what she has
known.
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GENTLEWOMAN
She said something she shouldn’t have said, I’m
sure of that. Heaven knows what secrets she’s
keeping.
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LADY MACBETH
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of
Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!
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LADY MACBETH
I still have the smell of blood on my hand. All the perfumes of
Arabia couldn’t make my little hand smell better. Oh, oh,
oh!
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DOCTOR
What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
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DOCTOR
What a heavy sigh! Her heart is carrying a heavy weight.
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GENTLEWOMAN
I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the
whole body.
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GENTLEWOMAN
I wouldn’t want a heart like hers even if you made me
queen.
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DOCTOR
Well, well, well.
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DOCTOR
Well, well, well.
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GENTLEWOMAN
Pray God it be, sir.
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GENTLEWOMAN
I hope what she’s saying is well, sir!
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DOCTOR
This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which
have walked in
their sleep who have died holily in their beds.
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DOCTOR
This disease is beyond my medical skills. But I have known people
who sleepwalked and weren’t guilty of anything.
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LADY MACBETH
Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so
pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s
grave.
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LADY MACBETH
Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Don’t look so
frightened. I tell you again, Banquo is buried. He cannot come out
of his grave.
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DOCTOR
Even so?
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DOCTOR
Is this true?
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LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come,
come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To
bed, to bed, to bed!
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LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed! There’s a knocking at the gate. Come,
come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be
undone. To bed, to bed, to bed!
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LADY MACBETH exits. |
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DOCTOR
Will she go now to bed?
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DOCTOR
Will she go to bed now?
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