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

ACT 2, SCENE 1<\/b>
Setting: Inverness. Court within the castle.<\/i><\/p>\n

Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE, bearing a torch before them.<\/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
BANQUO <\/td>\nHow goes the night, boy?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLEANCE <\/td>\nThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nAnd she goes down at twelve.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLEANCE <\/td>\nI take't, 'tis later, sir.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nHold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir candles are all out. Take thee that too.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA heavy summons lies like lead upon me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRestrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGives way to in repose!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGive me my sword.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho's there?<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nA friend.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nWhat, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a–bed:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe hath been in unusual pleasure, and<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSent forth great largess to your offices.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis diamond he greets your wife withal,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy the name of most kind hostess; and shut up<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn measureless content.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nBeing unprepared<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur will became the servant to defect<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich else should free have wrought.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nAll's well.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:<\/td>\n 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo you they have show'd some truth.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nI think not of them:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe would spend it in some words upon that business,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you would grant the time.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nAt your kind'st leisure.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nIf you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt shall make honour for you.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nSo I lose none<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn seeking to augment it, but still keep<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy bosom franchised and allegiance clear,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI shall be counsell'd.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nGood repose the while!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BANQUO <\/td>\nThanks, sir: the like to you!<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MACBETH <\/td>\nGo bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShe strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit Servant.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs this a dagger which I see before me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have thee not, and yet I see thee still.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nArt thou not, fatal vision, sensible<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo feeling as to sight? or art thou but<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA dagger of the mind, a false creation,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nProceeding from the heat–oppressed brain?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI see thee yet, in form as palpable<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs this which now I draw.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou marshall'st me the way that I was going;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd such an instrument I was to use.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else worth all the rest; I see thee still,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich was not so before. There's no such thing:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt is the bloody business which informs<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAlarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMoves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm–set earth,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThy very stones prate of my whereabout,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd take the present horror from the time,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWords to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA bell rings.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI go, and it is done; the bell invites me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat summons thee to heaven or to hell.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/h3>\n

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