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MACBETH and LENNOX

What’s the matter?

MACDUFF
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece;
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence

The life o’the building.

MACBETH
What is’t you say? The life?

LENNOX
Mean you his majesty?

MACDUFF
Approach the chamber and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak.
See, and then speak yourselves.

Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.
Awake, awake! [70]
Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!

Banquo and Donalbain, Malcolm, awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
And look on death itself! Up, up, and see
The Great Doom’s image! Malcolm, Banquo,
As from your graves rise up and walk like sprites

To countenance this horror. Ring the bell!

Bell rings.

Enter Lady Macbeth.

LADY
What’s the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley

The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!