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Act 5.

MACBETH.

Line 33.

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M SIDDONS in LADY MACBETH.

Yet here's a Spot

Printed for John Bell, British Library London: Aug! 26.1784.

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Doct. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.

Gent. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she hath known. 51 Lady. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this litttle hand. Oh! oh! oh!

Doct. What a sigh is there? The heart is sorely charg'd.

Gent. I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the dignity of the whole body.

Doct. Well, well, well,

Gent. Pray God, it be, sir.

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Doct. This disease is beyond my practice: Yet I have known those which have walk'd in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds.

Lady. Wash your hands, put on your night-gown; look not so pale :-I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave.

Doct. Even so ?

Lady. 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.

Doct. Will she go now to będ?

Gent. Directly.

[Exit Lady.

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Doct. Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles : infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine, than the physician.

God,

God, God, forgive us all!. Look after her;
Remove from her the means of all annoyance,

And still keep eyes upon her :-So, good night: 80
My mind she has mated, and amaz'd my sight:

I think, but dare not speak.

Gent. Good night, good doctor.

SCENE II.

[Exeunt.

Drum and Colours. Enter MENTETH, CATHNESS, ANGUS, LENOX, and Soldiers.

Ment. The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. Revenges burn in them: for their dear causes Would, to the bleeding and the grim alarm, Excite the, mortified man.

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Ang Near Birnam wood

Shall we well meet them; that way are they

coming.

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Cath. Who knows, if Donalbain be with his

brother?

Len. For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file

Of all the gentry; there is Siward's son,

And many unrough youths, that even now
Protest their first of manhood.

Ment. What does the tyrant }

Cath. Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies :

Some say, he's mad; others, that lesser hate him,
Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,

He

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