Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 1 (Sleepwalking Scene)

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    GENTLEWOMAN

    Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.

    DOCTOR

    How came she by that light?

    GENTLEWOMAN

    Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually; 'tis her command.

    DOCTOR

    You see, her eyes are open.

    GENTLEWOMAN

    Ay, but their sense is shut.

    DOCTOR

    What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

    GENTLEWOMAN

    It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

    LADY MACBETH

    Yet here's a spot.

    DOCTOR

    Hark! she speaks. I will set down what comes from her.

    LADY MACBETH

    Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two; why, then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

    LADY MACBETH

    Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?

    LADY MACBETH

    Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.

    DOCTOR

    Do you mark that?

    LADY MACBETH

    The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?

    LADY MACBETH

    Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!

    DOCTOR

    What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.

    GENTLEWOMAN

    I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.

    DOCTOR

    This disease is beyond my practice.

    LADY MACBETH

    Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave.

    LADY MACBETH

    To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed!