Act 3 Scene 4 LADYMACBETH O proper stuff!25


This is the very painting of your fear:26 This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,27 Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorised by her grandam28


. Shame itself!


Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool.


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MACBETH Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses29


and our graves must send


Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.30 [GHOST vanishes]


LADYMACBETH What, quite unmanned31


MACBETH If I stand here, I saw him.


LADYMACBETH Fie, for shame!


MACBETH Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal32


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Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,33 And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is.


LADYMACBETH My worthy lord,


Your noble friends do lack you. MACBETH


I do forget.


Do not muse34 at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity,35


which is nothing To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; 74


34 muse: think about/reflect on 35 infirmity: illness


32


Ere human…gentle weal: before human laws made society civil


in folly?


25 O proper stuff!: Absolute nonsense! 26


painting of your fear: imagined out of fear


27


flaws and starts: sudden outbursts and fits of emotion


28


Authorised by her grandam: as true as an old grandmother’s story


Macbeth


29


charnel-houses: buildings for storing bones


30


our monuments…of kites: Our graves should be the stomachs of carrion birds, i.e. to prevent the return of the dead.


31 unmanned: stripped of manhood


33 crowns: heads


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