DOCTOR. A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? 

 GENTLEWOMAN. That, sir, which I will not report after her. 

 DOCTOR. You may to me; and ’tis most meet you should. 

 GENTLEWOMAN. Neither to you nor anyone; having no witness to confirm my speech. 

Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper.

Lady Macbeth

 Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close. 

 DOCTOR. How came she by that light? 

 GENTLEWOMAN. Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; ’tis her command. 

 DOCTOR. You see, her eyes are open. 

 GENTLEWOMAN. Ay, but their sense are shut. 

 DOCTOR. What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands. 

 GENTLEWOMAN. It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. 

 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. 

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