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To wear a heart so white.
Knock.
I hear a knocking
At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
A little water clears us of this deed;
How easy is it then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.
Knock.
Hark! more knocking.
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us [70]
And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.
MACBETH
To know my deed ’twere best not know myself.
Knock.
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
Exeunt.
Scene III IT
Enter a Porter. Knocking within.
PORTER
Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have
old turning the key.
Knock.
Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there i’the name of Belzebub? Here’s a farmer
that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have
napkins enow about you; here you’ll sweat for’t.
Knock.
Knock, knock! Who’s there in the other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an
equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who