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• Human action v, Scene iv
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Macbeth: Act two, Scene 2 Translation

A side-by-side translation of Human activity ii, Scene 2 of Macbeth from the original Shakespeare into modern English language.

Original Text	Translated Text
Source: Folger Shakespeare Library
Enter Lady Macbeth. LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath made me assuming. What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Hark!—Peace. It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, 5 Which gives the stern'st proficient-night. He is well-nigh it. The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets, That death and nature practice debate most them x Whether they live or die. MACBETH, within Who's there? what, ho! LADY MACBETH Alack, I am afraid they accept awaked, And 'tis non done. Th' effort and non the deed Confounds us. Hark!—I laid their daggers ready; 15 He could non miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father equally he slept, I had washed 't. Enter Macbeth with encarmine daggers. My husband?	Lady Macbeth is lone on phase. She tells united states of america that she drugged the King's guards and fix their weapons out where Macbeth wouldn't miss them. She says she would've killed Duncan herself, if he hadn't looked so much like her father in his sleep. Apparently, she's all family values now.
MACBETH I have done the deed. Didst grand non hear a dissonance? LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. 20 Did not you lot speak? MACBETH When? LADY MACBETH Now. MACBETH As I descended? LADY MACBETH Ay. 25 MACBETH Hark!—Who lies i' thursday' second sleeping room? LADY MACBETH Donalbain. MACBETH This is a sorry sight. LADY MACBETH A foolish idea, to say a deplorable sight. MACBETH At that place's one did laugh in 'south sleep, and one cried xxx "Murder!" That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them. But they did say their prayers and addressed them Again to slumber. 35	Macbeth enters with bloody hands and a weird story: two divide people staying in the castle woke up while he was in the act. Ane cried, "Murder!" only they both went back to sleep later saying their prayers.
LADY MACBETH There are ii lodged together. MACBETH Ane cried "God bless us" and "Amen" the other, As they had seen me with these hangman's hands, Listing'ning their fright. I could not say "Amen" When they did say "God anoint us." twoscore LADY MACBETH Consider information technology not and then securely. MACBETH But wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen"? I had virtually demand of approving, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat. LADY MACBETH These deeds must not be idea 45 After these means; so, information technology will make us mad.	Lady Macbeth mentions that Malcolm and Donalbain are sharing a room, and Macbeth says he's worried about the fact that he couldn't say "Amen" when her heard them say, "God bless u.s.." He could have used the blessing, given how he recently damned his soul by killing the King. Lady Macbeth tells him not to think about information technology too much, just Macbeth can't stop himself. She warns him that thinking this fashion will drive them both mad.
MACBETH Methought I heard a phonation cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder slumber"—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits upwardly the raveled sleave of intendance, The death of each day's life, sore labor'southward bath, 50 Lotion of hurt minds, not bad nature's second class, Chief nourisher in life'southward banquet. LADY MACBETH What practice you mean? MACBETH Notwithstanding it cried "Slumber no more!" to all the house. "Glamis hath murdered slumber, and therefore 55 Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more."	But Macbeth can't turn off the crazy. Next he says he heard voices proverb things like "Macbeth has murdered sleep, and so Macbeth will never slumber again."
LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You lot practice unbend your noble strength to call up And so brainsickly of things. Go get some water lx And wash this filthy witness from your hand.— Why did you bring these daggers from the identify? They must lie there. Go, carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.	Lady Macbeth tells her husband to get a grip. He needs to focus on the matter at hand, which is framing the Rex'southward attendants.
MACBETH I'll go no more. 65 I am agape to think what I accept washed. Expect on 't again I dare not. LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but equally pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood seventy That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For information technology must seem their guilt. She exits with the daggers. Knock inside.	Macbeth won't do it himself, so Lady Thou takes the daggers from him, smears the attendants with Duncan'southward blood, and plants the weapons. Exercise you think that will foolCSI: Cawdor?
MACBETH Whence is that knocking? 75 How is 't with me when every noise appalls me? What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine optics. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my manus? No, this my hand volition rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, lxxx Making the green one cherry-red.
Enter Lady Macbeth. LADY MACBETH My hands are of your color, just I shame To wear a heart and so white. Knock. I hear a knocking At the s entry. Retire we to our sleeping room. 85 A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it, and so! Your constancy Hath left you unattended. Knock. Hark, more than knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us ninety And evidence us to be watchers. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. MACBETH To know my human activity 'twere best not know myself. Knock. Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst. 95 They exit.	Lady Macbeth comes back, having washed her role, and now her hands are carmine with claret, too. She hears the knocking now and hurries Macbeth to bed so that (1) they don't look suspicious, and (2) they can exercise a little washing up earlier all the "Oh no! The king is expressionless" forenoon hullabaloo. Macbeth regrets killing Duncan—he says he wishes that all the knocking at the door would wake Duncan up. Sorry, dude. No accept-backsies with murder.

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