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LADY

There are two lodged together.

MACBETH
One cried ‘God bless us’ and ‘Amen’ the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.
Listening their fear I could not say ‘Amen’

When they did say ‘God bless us’.

LADY
Consider it not so deeply. [30]

MACBETH
But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’?
I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.

LADY
These deeds must not be thought

After these ways; so, it will make us mad.

MACBETH
Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep − the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,

The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.’

LADY
What do you mean? [40]

MACBETH
Still it cried ‘Sleep no more’ to all the house;

‘Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.’