Banquo's Buried

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? 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?]

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 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 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?

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.