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Read Macbeth Online

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Scene II] Macbeth 43 

Shall sleep no more : Macbeth shall sleep no more.' 

Lady Macbeth. Who was it that thus cried? 
Why, worthy thane, 
You do unbend your noble strength, to think 
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, 
And wash this filthy witness from your hand. 
Why did you bring these daggers from the place ? 
They must lie there : go carry them, and smear 
The sleepy grooms with blood. 

Macbeth. I'll go no more : 50 

I am afraid to think what I have done ; 
Look on't again I dare not. 

Lady Macbeth. Infirm of purpose ! 

Give me the daggers : the sleeping and the dead 
Are but as pictures : 'tis the eye of childhood 
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, 
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, 
For it must seem their guilt. 

[Exit. Knocking within. 

Macbeth. Whence is that knocking? 

How is't with me, when every noise appals me ? 
What hands are here ? Ha ! they pluck out mine 

eyes. 
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood 60 
Clean from my hand ? No ; this my hand will 

rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green one red. " 

44-50. What strong contrast is effected by the use of 
adjectives in this speech? 


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