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  BANQUO. How goes the night, boy?

  FLEANCE. The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.

  BANQUO. And she goes down at twelve.

  FLEANCE. I take't 'tis later, sir.

  BANQUO. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven,

    Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.

    A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,

    And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,

    Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature

    Gives way to in repose!

    Give me my sword.

    Who's there?

  MACBETH. A friend.

  BANQUO. What, sir, not yet at rest? The King's abed.

    He hath been in unusual pleasure and

    Sent forth great largess to your offices.

    This diamond he greets your wife withal,

    By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up

    In measureless content.

  MACBETH. Being unprepared,

    Our will became the servant to defect,

    Which else should free have wrought.

  BANQUO. All's well.

    I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:

    To you they have show'd some truth.

  MACBETH. I think not of them;

    Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,

    We would spend it in some words upon that business,

    If you would grant the time.

  BANQUO. At your kind'st leisure.

  MACBETH. If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,

    It shall make honor for you.

  BANQUO. So I lose none

    In seeking to augment it, but still keep

    My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,

    I shall be counsel'd.

  MACBETH. Good repose the while.

  BANQUO. Thanks, sir, the like to you.

                                     Exeunt Banquo. and Fleance.

  MACBETH. Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,

    She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Exit Servant.

    Is this a dagger which I see before me,

    The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

    I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

    To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

    A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

    Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

    I see thee yet, in form as palpable

    As this which now I draw.

    Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going,

    And such an instrument I was to use.

    Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,

    Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,

    And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,

    Which was not so before. There's no such thing: