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Look to the lady!

MALCOLM
[to Donalbain] Why do we hold our tongues,
That most may claim this argument for ours?

DONALBAIN
[to Malcolm] What should be spoken here where our fate,
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?

Let’s away. Our tears are not yet brewed. [120]

MALCOLM
[to Donalbain] Nor our strong sorrow upon the foot of motion.

BANQUO
Look to the lady!

Lady Macbeth is taken out.
And when we have our naked frailties hid
That suffer in exposure, let us meet

And question this most bloody piece of work
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.
In the great hand of God I stand, and thence

Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.

MACDUFF
And so do I.

ALL
So all.

MACBETH
Let’s briefly put on manly readiness, [130]
And meet i’the hall together.

ALL