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Extract

Lady Macbeth:

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,

Stop up th’access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visiting of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

Th’effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dimmest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

To cry ‘Hold, hold!’

(Enter Macbeth)

Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor,

Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter,

Thy letters have transported me beyond

This ignorant present, and I feel now

The future in the instant.

Macbeth:

My dearest love,

Duncan comes here tonight.

Lady Macbeth:

And when goes hence?

Macbeth:

Tomorrow, as he purposes.

Lady Macbeth:

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

May read strange matters. To beguile the time,

Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t. He that’s coming

Must be provided for; and you shall put

This night’s business into my dispatch,

Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

Macbeth:

We will speak further.

Lady Macbeth:

Only look up clear.

To alter favour ever is to fear.

Leave all the rest to me.

Summary

In this extract, Lady Macbeth is waiting for Macbeth to come back to their castle. He has written her a letter all about his meeting with the witches, and his ambitions to take the throne. She is winding herself up to

of Duncan, the king. She calls on the spirits to make herself to

. Macbeth arrives with the news that

. This is the perfect opportunity for them to

. She tells Macbeth to

as a hospital host. She tells him to leave the rest ( that is,

) to to arrange.

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