Act 3 Scene 2 In restless ecstasy.10


Macbeth Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful11 fever he sleeps well;


Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.12


LADYMACBETH Come on;


Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;13 Be bright and jovial14


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MACBETH So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you: Let your remembrance apply to Banquo; Present him eminence,15


Unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours16


among your guests tonight.


sleek o’er your rugged looks: smooth over your haggard appearance 14 jovial: in good spirits


13


to lie / in restless ecstasy: to lie down in sleepless madness 11 fitful: restless


10 12


nor steel…him further: No sword, poison, trouble at home, foreign armies, nothing can hurt him (Duncan).


15


both with eye and tongue: in these flattering streams,


And make our faces vizards17 to our hearts,


Disguising what they are. LADYMACBETH


You must leave this.


MACBETH O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.


LADYMACBETH But in them nature's copy's not eterne.18


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MACBETH There's comfort yet; they are assailable;19 Then be thou jocund:20 His cloistered21


A deed of dreadful note. LADYMACBETH


What's to be done?


MACBETH Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,24 Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling25


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Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;26 And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond27 Which keeps me pale! Light thickens;28


24 chuck: little chicken 25 seeling: concealing


26 night, 27 and the crow


Scarf…pitiful day: Blindfold the illuminating light of day.


great bond: i.e.Macbeth’s connection to Banquo


28 Light thickens: Light dims 65 18


in them nature’s copy’s not eterne: Nature has not given them eternal life.


ere the bat hath flown flight, ere to black Hecate's22 summons


The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal,23


there shall be done


19 assailable: vulnerable to attack 20 jocund: upbeat/in a good mood 21 cloistered: hidden


22 Hecate: goddess of witchcraft 23


The shard-borne…yawning peal: The beetle flying on scaly wings has tolled night’s bell.


Present him eminence: Show him special respect.


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lave our honours: wash our achievements (titles)


17 vizards: visors/masks


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