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Bastille Day

14 July 2016

Lady Macbeth’s Sleep-walking Scene

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. i– First Folio)

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Fye, my Lord, fie, a Souldier, and affear’d?

(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. I – First Folio)

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   23553 = Enter a Doctor of Physicke, and a Wayting Gentlewoman.

Doctor:

17408 = I haue too Nights watch’d with you,

20296 = but can perceiue no truth in your report.

14559 = When was it shee last walk’d?

Gentlewoman:

17165 = Since his Maiesty went into the Field,

12297 = I haue seene her rise from her bed,

17142 = throw her Night-Gown vppon her,

20925 = vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it,

20294 = write vpon’t, read it, afterwards Seale it,

9251 = and againe returne to bed;

17740 = yet all this while in a most fast sleepe.

Doctor:

14191 = A great perturbation in Nature,

15598 = to receyue at once the benefit of sleep,

12556 = and do the effects of watching.

12263 = In this slumbry agitation,

22287 = besides her walking, and other actuall performances,

15653 = what (at any time) haue you heard her say?

Gentlewoman:

21760 = That Sir, which I will not report after her.

Doctor:

19124 = You may to me, and ’tis most meet you should.

Gentlewoman:

11761 = Neither to you, nor any one,

19398 = hauing no witnesse to confirme my speech.

10419 = Enter Lady with a Taper.

19966 = Lo you, heere she comes: This is her very guise,

11154 = and vpon my life fast asleepe:

10746 = obserue her, stand close.

Doctor:

11115 = How came she by that light?

Gentlewoman:

9377 = Why it stood by her:

20143 = she ha’s light by her continually, ’tis her command.

Doctor:

9850 = You see her eyes are open.

Gentlewoman:

12269 = I but their sense are shut.

Doctor:

12347 = What is it she do’s now?

13625 = Looke how she rubbes her hands.

Gentlewoman:

16623 = It is an accustom’d action with her,

14975 = to seeme thus washing her hands:

25514 = I haue knowne her continue in this a quarter of an houre.

Lady:

7588 = Yet heere’s a spot.

Doctor:

6672 = Heark, she speaks,

19161 = I will set downe what comes from her,

20219 = to satisfie my remembrance the more strongly.

Lady:

11907 = Out damned spot: out I say.

18146 = One: Two: Why then ’tis time to doo’t:

6119 = Hell is murky.

12691 = Fye, my Lord, fie, a Souldier, and affear’d?

17263 = what need we feare? who knowes it,

19800 = when none can call our powre to accompt:

14904 = yet who would haue thought

16585 = the olde man to haue had so much blood in him.

Doctor:

7327 = Do you marke that?

Lady:

18946 = The Thane of Fife, had a wife: where is she now?

15632 = What will these hands ne’re be cleane?

16047 = No more o’that my Lord, no more o’that:

16797 = you marre all with this starting.

Doctor:

25555 = Go too, go too: You haue knowne what you should not.

Gentlewoman:

23695 = She ha’s spoke what shee should not, I am sure of that:

17611 = Heauen knowes what she ha’s knowne.

Lady:

14867 = Heere’s the smell of the blood still:

27589 = all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

3108 = Oh, oh, oh.

Doctor:

20106 = What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg’d.

Gentlewoman:

18666 = I would not haue such a heart in my bosome,

14174 = for the dignity of the whole body.

Doctor:

9402 = Well, well, well.

Gentlewoman:

7046 = Pray God it be sir.

Doctor:

14600 = This disease is beyond my practise:

26386 = yet I haue knowne those which haue walkt in their sleep,

13789 = who haue dyed holily in their beds.

Lady:

28871 = Wash your hands, put on your Night-Gowne, looke not so pale:

14684 = I tell you yet againe Banquo’s buried;

12779 = he cannot come out on’s graue.

Doctor:

3530 = Euen so?

Lady:

15743 = To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate:

14311 = Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand:

12635 = What’s done, cannot be vndone.

10277 = To bed, to bed, to bed.             Exit Lady.

Doctor:

11095 = Will she go now to bed?

Gentlewoman:

4000 = Directly.

Doctor:

20766 = Foule whisp’rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds

19751 = Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes

25556 = To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:

18663 = More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:

15295 = God, God forgiue vs all. Looke after her,

16865 = Remoue from her the meanes of all annoyance,

18042 = And still keepe eyes vpon her: So goodnight,

14578 = My minde she ha’s mated, and amaz’d my sight.

11439 = I thinke, but dare not speake.

Gentlewoman:

     14011 = Good night good Doctor.  Exeunt.

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