Macbeth; Act 5, Scene 1

Macbeth                        Act 5, Scene 1 Lady Macbeth

This scene is used in our interview with Elena Hollenbeak and Lyn Ackerman

LADY MACBETH 
33  Yet here’s a spot.
DOCTOR
34  Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more Strongly.
LADY MACBETH
35  Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two.
36  Why then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear 
37  who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to 38  have had so much blood in him?
DOCTOR
39  Do you mark that?
LADY MACBETH
40  The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is  she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? 
41  No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all with this starting.
DOCTOR
42  Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.
GENTLEWOMAN
43  She has spoke what she should not,
44  I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has Known.
LADY MACBETH
45  Here’s the smell of the blood still. All
46  the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
DOCTOR
47  What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
GENTLEWOMAN
48  I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.
DOCTOR
49  Well, well, well.
GENTLEWOMAN 
50  Pray God it be, sir.
DOCTOR
51  This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep,
52  who have died holily in their beds.
LADY MACBETH
53  Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown.
54  Look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s grave.
DOCTOR 
55  Even so?
LADY MACBETH
56  To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the
57  gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. 
58  To bed, to bed, to bed.