No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Act 1, Scene 7, Page 3
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MACBETH
If
we should fail?
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MACBETH
But if we fail—
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LADY MACBETH
We
fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep—
Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey
Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep
Their drenchèd natures lie as in a death,
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan? What not put upon
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Of our great quell?
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LADY MACBETH
We, fail? If you get your courage up, we can’t fail. When
Duncan is asleep—the day’s hard journey has
definitely made him tired—I’ll get his two
servants so drunk that their memory will go up in smoke through the
chimneys of their brains. When they lie asleep like pigs, so drunk
they’ll be dead to the world, what won’t you and I
be able to do to the unguarded Duncan? And whatever we do, we can
lay all the blame on the drunken servants.
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MACBETH
Bring
forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
When we have marked with blood those sleepy two
Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,
That they have done ’t?
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MACBETH
May you only give birth to male children, because your fearless
spirit should create nothing that isn’t masculine. Once we
have covered the two servants with blood, and used their daggers to
kill, won’t people believe that they were the
culprits?
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