No Fear Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Act 3, Scene 2, Page 2
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LADY MACBETH
Come on, gentle my lord,
Sleek o'er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial
Among your guests tonight.
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LADY MACBETH
Come on, relax, dear. Put on a happy face and look cheerful and
agreeable for your guests tonight.
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MACBETH
So
shall I, love,
And so, I pray, be you. Let your remembrance
Apply to Banquo; present him eminence,
Both with eye and tongue: unsafe the while that we
Must lave our honors in these flattering streams,
And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.
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MACBETH
That’s exactly what I’ll do, my love, and I hope
you’ll do the same. Give Banquo your special attention.
Talk to him and look at him in a way that will make him feel
important. We’re in a dangerous situation, where we have to
flatter him and hide our true feelings.
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LADY MACBETH
You
must leave this.
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LADY MACBETH
You have to stop talking like this.
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MACBETH
Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
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MACBETH
Argh! I feel like my mind is full of scorpions, my dear wife. You
know that Banquo and his son Fleance are still alive.
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LADY MACBETH
But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne.
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LADY MACBETH
But they can’t live forever.
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MACBETH
There’s comfort yet; they are assailable.
Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
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MACBETH
That’s comforting. They can be killed, it’s
true. So be cheerful. Before the bat flies through the castle, and
before the dung beetle makes his little humming noise to tell us
it’s nighttime, a dreadful deed will be done.
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LADY MACBETH
What’s
to be done?
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LADY MACBETH
What are you going to do?
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