Macbeth (AQA GCSE English Literature)

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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. O, O, O.

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.

   those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in
   their beds.

LADY MACBETH Wash your hands, put on your night-gown, 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.

CAPTAIN

                                  Doubtful it stood,
As two spent swimmers that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonald –
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that

BANQUO

      But ’tis strange,

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence. –

Cousins, a word, I pray you.
MACBETH [Aside]

         Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme. – I thank you, gentlemen. –
This supernatural soliciting