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Scene I] Macbeth 103 Gentlewoman. Neither to you nor any one, hav- ing no witness to confirm my speech. 20 Enter Lady Macbeth, with a taper 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 are shut. Doctor. What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. 30 Gentlezvoman. 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, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Lady Macbeth. Out, damned spot ! out, I say ! One : two : why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? 40 What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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