![]() To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: The Doctor adds that there's a lot of strange talk and weird happenings going on, and he thinks Lady Macbeth probably needs help from a priest, not a doctor.Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deedsĭo breed unnatural troubles: infected minds My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. Remove from her the means of all annoyance 80Īnd still keep eyes upon her. More needs she the divine than the physician. To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. Unnatural deeds 75ĭo breed unnatural troubles. In fact, the doctor says this problem is way over his head.įoul whisp’rings are abroad. The Gentlewoman and the Doctor agree that she has a troubled mind and a heavy heart. Lady Macbeth continues her complaints, saying that there's not enough perfume in Arabia to get the smell of blood off her hands. Known those which have walked in their sleep, GENTLEWOMAN I would not have such a heart in myĭOCTOR This disease is beyond my practice. The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this littleĭOCTOR What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely LADY MACBETH Here’s the smell of the blood still. This is also where we get the famous line, "Out, damned spot!" They proceed to watch Lady Macbeth ramble through a tortured speech, at once trying to clean her hands of an imaginary spot and nagging at her invisible husband.Īll the hand wringing and her question, "Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?" leave little doubt as to what vexes the lady. GENTLEWOMAN She has spoke what she should not, 50 She now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No 45 LADY MACBETH The Thane of Fife had a wife. ![]() Who knows it, when none can call our power to 40Īccount? Yet who would have thought the old man Lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear LADY MACBETH Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. I will set down what comesįrom her, to satisfy my remembrance the more 35 The Gentlewoman says she's seen her stand there wringing her hands like that for fifteen minutes straight before.ĭOCTOR Hark, she speaks. ![]() Plus she keeps rubbing her hands together. For one thing, her eyes are wide open, and for another, she apparently always walks around with a candle. Seems like Lady Macbeth has been saying and doing some freaky things on these nightly strolls. GENTLEWOMAN It is an accustomed action with her to 30 GENTLEWOMAN Ay, but their sense are shut.ĭOCTOR What is it she does now? Look how she rubs Just then, Lady Macbeth walks in with a candle. With no other witnesses, nobody would believe her. ![]() She's not ratting out her mistress to anyone-not even her doctor. The Doctor asks what Lady Macbeth has been saying and doing when she sleepwalks, but the Gentlewoman says no way. GENTLEWOMAN Neither to you nor anyone, having no GENTLEWOMAN That, sir, which I will not report after 15ĭOCTOR You may to me, and ’tis most meet you Walking and other actual performances, what at any Once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of They're keeping an eye out for Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking, which the gentlewoman reported began once Macbeth left to prepare the house for battle.ĭOCTOR A great perturbation in nature, to receive at 10 Upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper,įold it, write upon ’t, read it, afterwards seal it, andĪgain return to bed yet all this while in a most fastīack in Scotland, at Macbeth's castle in Dunsinane, a doctor waits with one of Lady Macbeth's gentlewomen. Have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown 5 GENTLEWOMAN Since his Majesty went into the field, I Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.ĭOCTOR I have two nights watched with you but can ![]()
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