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104 Macbeth [Act V 

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? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' 
that : you mar all with this starting. 

Doctor. Go to, go to ; you have known what you so 
should not. 

Gentlewoman. She has spoke what she should 
not, I am sure of that : heaven knows what she has 
known. 

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 60 
my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. 

Doctor. Well, well, well! — 

Gentlewoman. Pray God it be, sir. 

Doctor. This disease is beyond my practice : yet 
I have known those which have walked in their 
sleep who have died holily in their beds. 

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. 

Doctor. Even so? to 

Lady Macbeth. To bed, to bed ; there's knock- 

71-74. Read rapidly, without pause, the words which 
are repeated.