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SECOND MURDERER A
light, a light!
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SECOND MURDERER Here comes a light! Here comes a light!
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THIRD MURDERER 'Tis
he.
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THIRD MURDERER That’s him.
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FIRST MURDERER Stand to ’t.
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FIRST MURDERER Prepare yourselves.
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BANQUO It will be rain tonight.
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BANQUO It will rain tonight.
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FIRST MURDERER Let
it come down.
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FIRST MURDERER Then let the rain come down.
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The MURDERERS attack
BANQUO
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The MURDERERS attack
BANQUO.
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BANQUO O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
20Thou may ’st revenge —O slave!
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BANQUO Oh, this is treachery! Get out of here, good Fleance, run, run,
run! Someday you can get revenge.—Oh, you
bastard!
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BANQUO dies. Exit FLEANCE
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BANQUO dies. FLEANCE
escapes.
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THIRD MURDERER Who did strike out the light?
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THIRD MURDERER Who put out the light?
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FIRSTMURDERER Was
’t not the way?
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FIRST MURDERER Wasn’t that the best thing to do?
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THIRD MURDERER There’s but one down. The son is fled.
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THIRD MURDERER There’s only one body here. The son ran away.
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SECOND MURDERER We have lost best half of our affair.
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SECOND MURDERER We failed in half of our mission.
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FIRST MURDERER Well, let’s away and say how much is done.
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FIRST MURDERER Well, let’s get out of here and tell Macbeth what we did
accomplish.
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Exeunt
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They exit.
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