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I'll go no more (2.2.45-51)

LADY MACBETH Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. - Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must...

Still it cried, 'Sleep no more!' (2.2.40-45)

MACBETH Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house: 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more; Macbeth...

Sleep no more! (2.2.34-39)

MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd...

Wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? (2.2.20-33)

MACBETH There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried 'Murder!' That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them: But they did say...

This is a sorry sight (2.2.14-20)

Enter MACBETH My husband! MACBETH I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets...

It was the owl that shrieked (2.2.1-14)

SCENE II. The same. Enter LADY MACBETH LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given...

I go, and it is done (2.1.60-65)

MACBETH Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. A bell rings I go, and it is done; the bell invites...

Wicked dreams abuse the curtain'd sleep (2.1.50-60)

MACBETH Now o'er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's...

I see thee yet (2.1.41-49)

MACBETH I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an...

Is this a dagger? (2.1.34-40)

MACBETH Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee...

I think not of them (2.1.21-32)

BANQUO All's well. I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd some truth. MACBETH I think not of them: Yet,...

The king's a-bed (2.1.11-20)

BANQUO What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed: He hath been in unusual pleasure, and Sent forth great largess to your offices. This...

Husbandry in heaven (2.1.1-10)

ACT II SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle. Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him BANQUO How goes the night, boy? FLEANCE...

Men-children only (1.7.73-83)

MACBETH Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. Will it not be received, When we have...

Screw your courage (1.7.60-73)

MACBETH If we should fail? LADY MACBETH We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is...

Dash’d brains and boneless gums (1.7.54-59)

LADY MACBETH I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have...

Then you were a man (1.7.45-54)

MACBETH Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY MACBETH What beast was't, then, That made...

Was the hope drunk...? (1.7.35-45)

LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it...

Proceed no further (1.7.28-35)

MACBETH Enter LADY MACBETH How now! what news? LADY MACBETH He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber? MACBETH Hath he ask'd...

Vaulting ambition (1.7.25-28)

MACBETH I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other - Enter...

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