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- $Title{Macbeth: Act V, Scene III}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*01400.txt}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
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- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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- MACBETH
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- ACT V
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- SCENE III: Dunsinane. A room in the castle.
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- {Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants.}
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- MACBETH: Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
- Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
- I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
- Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
- All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
- 'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
- Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
- false thanes,
- And mingle with the English epicures:
- The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
- Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. 10
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- {Enter a Servant.}
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- The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
- Where got'st thou that goose look?
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- Servant: There is ten thousand--
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- MACBETH: Geese, villain!
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- Servant: Soldiers, sir.
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- MACBETH: Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
- Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?
- Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
- Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?
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- Servant: The English force, so please you.
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- MACBETH: Take thy face hence.
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- [Exit Servant.]
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- Seyton!--I am sick at heart,
- When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push 20
- Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
- I have lived long enough: my way of life
- Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
- And that which should accompany old age,
- As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
- I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
- Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
- Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
- Seyton!
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- {Enter SEYTON.}
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- SEYTON: What is your gracious pleasure?
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- MACBETH: What news more? 30
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- SEYTON: All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.
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- MACBETH: I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
- Give me my armor.
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- SEYTON: 'Tis not needed yet.
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- MACBETH: I'll put it on.
- Send out more horses; skirr the country round;
- Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armor.
- How does your patient, doctor?
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- Doctor: Not so sick, my lord,
- As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,
- That keep her from her rest.
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- MACBETH: Cure her of that.
- Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, 40
- Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
- Raze out the written troubles of the brain
- And with some sweet oblivious antidote
- Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
- Which weighs upon the heart?
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- Doctor: Therein the patient
- Must minister to himself.
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- MACBETH: Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
- Come, put mine armor on; give me my staff.
- Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
- Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast 50
- The water of my land, find her disease,
- And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
- I would applaud thee to the very echo,
- That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--
- What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,
- Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou
- of them?
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- Doctor: Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation
- Makes us hear something.
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- MACBETH: Bring it after me.
- I will not be afraid of death and bane,
- Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. 60
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- Doctor: [Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
- Profit again should hardly draw me here.
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- [Exeunt.]
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