Wake Duncan With Thy Knocking

• Intro
• Summary
• Mod English language
• Act 1, Scene i
• Act i, Scene 2
• Human activity 1, Scene iii
• Act 1, Scene 4
• Act 1, Scene 5
• Human activity 1, Scene half dozen
• Act ane, Scene vii
• Act 2, Scene 1
• Act 2, Scene 2
• Act 2, Scene 2 Summary
• Act 2, Scene iii
• Act 2, Scene 4
• Deed 3, Scene 1
• Human activity 3, Scene ii
• Human action 3, Scene 3
• Human action 3, Scene 4
• Deed 3, Scene v
• Act 3, Scene 6
• Act 4, Scene 1
• Deed 4, Scene 2
• Act 4, Scene three
• Deed v, Scene 1
• Act 5, Scene ii
• Act five, Scene three
• Act five, Scene 4
• Human activity 5, Scene five
• Act 5, Scene six
• Act v, Scene 7
• Act 5, Scene 8
• Act v, Scene 9
• Act 5, Scene 10
• Act 5, Scene eleven
• Themes
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Macbeth: Act ii, Scene 2 Translation

A side-by-side translation of Act two, Scene 2 of Macbeth from the original Shakespeare into modern English.

Original Text	Translated Text
Source: Folger Shakespeare Library
Enter Lady Macbeth. LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath fabricated me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me burn down. Hark!—Peace. Information technology was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, 5 Which gives the stern'st adept-night. He is about it. The doors are open up, and the surfeited grooms Exercise mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets, That decease and nature do contend about them 10 Whether they live or die. MACBETH, within Who's there? what, ho! LADY MACBETH Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis not done. Th' attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark!—I laid their daggers set up; 15 He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done 't. Enter Macbeth with encarmine daggers. My husband?	Lady Macbeth is alone on stage. She tells us that she drugged the Male monarch's guards and set their weapons out where Macbeth wouldn't miss them. She says she would've killed Duncan herself, if he hadn't looked then much like her begetter in his sleep. Apparently, she's all family values now.
MACBETH I have done the act. Didst thou not hear a noise? LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. 20 Did not you speak? MACBETH When? LADY MACBETH At present. MACBETH As I descended? LADY MACBETH Ay. 25 MACBETH Hark!—Who lies i' th' second chamber? LADY MACBETH Donalbain. MACBETH This is a lamentable sight. LADY MACBETH A foolish thought, to say a lamentable sight. MACBETH There's one did laugh in 's slumber, and one cried 30 "Murder!" That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them. But they did say their prayers and addressed them Once again to sleep. 35	Macbeth enters with bloody hands and a weird story: two divide people staying in the castle woke up while he was in the deed. One cried, "Murder!" but they both went back to sleep later proverb their prayers.
LADY MACBETH There are two lodged together. MACBETH 1 cried "God anoint us" and "Amen" the other, As they had seen me with these hangman'south hands, List'ning their fear. I could not say "Amen" When they did say "God anoint us." 40 LADY MACBETH Consider it non then securely. MACBETH Simply wherefore could non I pronounce "Amen"? I had most demand of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat. LADY MACBETH These deeds must not be idea 45 After these ways; so, it volition make united states 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 anoint u.s.." He could accept used the approving, given how he recently damned his soul by killing the King. Lady Macbeth tells him not to recall about information technology likewise much, simply Macbeth tin't stop himself. She warns him that thinking this way will drive them both mad.
MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep, Slumber that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The decease of each day'south life, sore labor's bath, fifty Lotion of hurt minds, smashing nature'southward 2d course, Chief nourisher in life'south feast. LADY MACBETH What practise yous mean? MACBETH Nevertheless it cried "Slumber no more than!" to all the business firm. "Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore 55 Cawdor Shall slumber no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more."	Just Macbeth can't turn off the crazy. Next he says he heard voices saying things like "Macbeth has murdered sleep, so Macbeth will never sleep once more."
LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble forcefulness to think So brainsickly of things. Become get some water threescore 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 claret.	Lady Macbeth tells her husband to get a grip. He needs to focus on the matter at hand, which is framing the Male monarch's attendants.
MACBETH I'll become no more. 65 I am afraid to think what I have washed. Look on 't again I dare non. LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood 70 That fears a painted devil. If he exercise bleed, I'll order the faces of the grooms even so, For information technology must seem their guilt. She exits with the daggers. Knock within.	Macbeth won't do it himself, and so Lady 1000 takes the daggers from him, smears the attendants with Duncan's blood, and plants the weapons. Practise you think that volition foolCSI: Cawdor?
MACBETH Whence is that knocking? 75 How is 't with me when every noise appalls me? What hands are hither! Ha, they pluck out mine optics. Will all smashing Neptune's ocean wash this claret Make clean from my hand? No, this my paw will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, lxxx Making the green one cerise.
Enter Lady Macbeth. LADY MACBETH My easily are of your color, merely I shame To clothing a heart so white. Knock. I hear a knocking At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber. 85 A trivial h2o clears united states of america of this human activity. How like shooting fish in a barrel is it, so! Your continuance Hath left you unattended. Knock. Hark, more knocking. Become on your nightgown, lest occasion call u.s. 90 And show us to be watchers. Be not lost And so poorly in your thoughts. MACBETH To know my deed '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 part, and now her hands are red with blood, as well. She hears the knocking now and hurries Macbeth to bed then that (ane) they don't await suspicious, and (2) they tin practice a little washing up before all the "Oh no! The king is dead" morning hullabaloo. Macbeth regrets killing Duncan—he says he wishes that all the knocking at the door would wake Duncan upwardly. Sad, dude. No take-backsies with murder.

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Wake Duncan With Thy Knocking,

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