No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Act 2, Scene 2, Page 2
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LADY MACBETH
Now.
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LADY MACBETH
Just now.
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MACBETH
As
I descended?
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MACBETH
As I came down?
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LADY MACBETH
Ay.
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LADY MACBETH
Yes.
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MACBETH
Hark!
Who lies i' th' second chamber?
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MACBETH
Listen! Who’s sleeping in the second chamber?
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LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
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LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
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MACBETH
(looking at his hands) This is a
sorry sight.
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MACBETH
(looking at his bloody hands) This
is a sorry sight.
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LADY MACBETH
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
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LADY MACBETH
That’s a stupid thing to say.
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MACBETH
There’s one did laugh in ’s sleep, and one
cried. “Murder!”
That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them.
But they did say their prayers, and addressed them
Again to sleep.
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MACBETH
One of the servants laughed in his sleep, and one cried,
“Murder!” and they woke each other up. I
stood and listened to them, but then they said their prayers and
went back to sleep.
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LADY MACBETH
There
are two lodged together.
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LADY MACBETH
Malcolm and Donalbain are asleep in the same room.
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MACBETH
One cried, “God bless us!” and
“Amen” the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.
List'ning their fear I could not say
“Amen,”
When they did say “God bless us!”
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MACBETH
One servant cried, “God bless us!” and the
other replied, “Amen,” as if they had seen
my bloody hands. Listening to their frightened voices, I
couldn’t reply “Amen” when they
said “God bless us!”
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LADY MACBETH
Consider it not so deeply.
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LADY MACBETH
Don’t think about it so much.
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MACBETH
But wherefore could not I pronounce
“Amen”?
I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
Stuck in my throat.
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MACBETH
But why couldn’t I say “Amen”? I
desperately needed God’s blessing, but the word
“Amen” stuck in my throat.
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LADY MACBETH
These
deeds must not be thought
After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
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LADY MACBETH
We can’t think that way about what we did. If we do,
it’ll drive us crazy.
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