No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth: Act 5 Scene 1 Page 2

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GENTLEWOMAN Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. 'Tis her command.	GENTLEWOMAN It stands by her bedside. She always has to have a light next to her. Those are her orders.
DOCTOR You see her eyes are open.	DOCTOR You see, her eyes are open.
GENTLEWOMAN Ay, but their sense is shut.	GENTLEWOMAN Yes, but they don’t see anything.
DOCTOR What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.	DOCTOR What’s she doing now? Look how she rubs her hands.
GENTLEWOMAN 20It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.	GENTLEWOMAN She often does that. She looks like she’s washing her hands. I’ve seen her do that before for as long as fifteen minutes.
LADY MACBETH Yet here’s a spot.	LADY MACBETH There’s still a spot here.
DOCTOR Hark! She speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.	DOCTOR Listen! She’s talking. I’ll write down what she says, so I’ll remember it better.
LADY MACBETH 25Out, 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.	LADY MACBETH (rubbing her hands) Come out, damned spot! Out, I command you! One, two. OK, it’s time to do it now.—Hell is murky!—Nonsense, my lord, nonsense! You are a soldier, and yet you are afraid? Why should we be scared, when no one can lay the guilt upon us?—But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him?
DOCTOR Do you mark that?	DOCTOR Did you hear that?
LADY MACBETH 30The 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.	LADY MACBETH The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will my hands never be clean?—No more of that, my lord, no more of that. You’ll ruin everything by acting startled like this.
DOCTOR Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.	DOCTOR Now look what you’ve done. You’ve heard something you shouldn’t have.