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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
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