Macbeth - Page 33

LENNOX

Those of his chamber, as it seemed, had done't.

Their hands and faces were all badged with blood;100

So were their daggers, which unwiped we found

Upon their pillows. They stared and were distracted.

No man's life was to be trusted with them.

MACBETH

O, yet I do repent me of my fury

That I did kill them.

MACDUFF Wherefore did you so?

MACBETH

Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate and furious,

Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.107

The expedition of my violent love108

Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,

His silver skin laced with his golden blood;110

And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature

For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,

Steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers

Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain114

That had a heart to love, and in that heart

Courage to make's love known?

LADY MACBETH Help me hence, ho!

MACDUFF

Look to the lady.117

MALCOLM [Aside to Donalbain]

Why do we hold our tongues,

That most may claim this argument for ours?118

DONALBAIN [To Malcolm]

What should be spoken here,

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