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Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT 1, SCENE 7<\/b>
Setting: The same. A room in Macbeth's castle.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nIf it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt were done quickly: if the assassination<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCould trammel up the consequence, and catch<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith his surcease success; that but this blow<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMight be the be–all and the end–all here,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut here, upon this bank and shoal of time,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe still have judgment here; <\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthat we but teach<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBloody instructions, which, being taught, return<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo plague the inventor: <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthis even–handed justice<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCommends the ingredience of our poison'd chalice<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo our own lips. He's here in double trust;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFirst, as I am his kinsman and his subject,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStrong both against the deed; then, as his host,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho should against his murderer shut the door,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNot bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHath borne his faculties so meek, hath been<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo clear in his great office, that his virtues<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill plead like angels, trumpet–tongued, against<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe deep damnation of his taking–off;<\/td>\n 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd pity, like a naked new–born babe,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStriding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon the sightless couriers of the air,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall blow the horrid deed in every eye,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo prick the sides of my intent, but only<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd falls on th'other.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter LADY MACBETH.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow now! what news?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nHe has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nHath he ask'd for me?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nKnow you not he has?<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nWe will proceed no further in this business:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGolden opinions from all sorts of people,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich would be worn now in their newest gloss,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNot cast aside so soon.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWas the hope drunk<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd wakes it now, to look so green and pale<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAt what it did so freely? From this time<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeard<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo be the same in thine own act and valour<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich thou esteem'st the ornament of life,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd live a coward in thine own esteem,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLetting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLike the poor cat i' the adage?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nPrithee, peace:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI dare do all that may become a man;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho dares do more is none.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWhat beast was't, then,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat made you break this enterprise to me?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen you durst do it, then you were a man;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, to be more than what you were, you would<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe so much more the man. Nor time nor place<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDid then adhere, and yet you would make both:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey have made themselves, and that their fitness now<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDoes unmake you. I have given suck, and know<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI would, while it was smiling in my face,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave done to this.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nIf we should fail?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWe fail!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut screw your courage to the sticking–place,<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhereto the rather shall his day's hard journey<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSoundly invite him––his two chamberlains<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill I with wine and wassail so convince<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat memory, the warder of the brain,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall be a fume, and the receipt of reason<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA limbeck only: when in swinish sleep<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir drenched natures lie as in a death,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat cannot you and I perform upon<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe unguarded Duncan? what not put upon<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHis spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf our great quell?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nBring forth men–children only;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor thy undaunted mettle should compose<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNothing but males. Will it not be received,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf his own chamber and used their very daggers,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat they have done't?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LADY MACBETH <\/td>\nWho dares receive it other,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs we shall make our griefs and clamour roar<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon his death?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nI am settled, and bend up<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEach corporal agent to this terrible feat.<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAway, and mock the time with fairest show:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFalse face must hide what the false heart doth know.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExeunt.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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