Macb.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if ^note the assassination ^note
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his ^note surcease, success ^note; that but this blow

Might be the be-all ^note and the end-all ^{note note} here, ^note
But here, upon ^note this bank and shoal ^note of time, ^note
We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgement here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions ^note, which being taught return
To plague the inventor: this ^note even-handed justice
Commends ^{note note} the ingredients ^note of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips. He's here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his ^note faculties ^note so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against ^note
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin ^note horsed
Upon the sightless couriers ^note of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself ^note
And falls on the other. ^note

^note Enter Lady Macbeth.
How now! what news?

Lady M.
He has ^note almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?

Macb.
Hath he ask'd for me?

Lady M.
Know you not he has? ^note

Macb.
We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts ^note of people,
Which would ^note be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.

Lady M.
Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress'd ^note yourself? hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did ^note so freely? From this time ^note
Such I account thy love ^note. Art thou afeard ^note
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And ^note live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’
Like the poor cat i' the adage? ^note

Macb.
Prithee, peace:
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do ^note more is none. ^note

Lady M.
What beast was't ^note then
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;

And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the ^note man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere ^note, and yet you would make both:
They have ^note made themselves, and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains ^note out ^note, had I so ^note sworn as you
Have done to this. ^note

Macb.
If we should fail? ^note

Lady M.
We fail! ^note
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep—
Whereto the rather shall his ^note day's hard journey
Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince ^note
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbec only: when in swinish sleep
Their drenched natures lie ^note as in a death,
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Of our great quell?

Macb.
Bring forth men-children only;
For thy undaunted mettle ^note should compose
Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers,
That they have done't?

Lady M.
Who dares receive it other,
As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
Upon his death?

Macb.
I am ^note settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. ^note [Exeunt.

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