Knock within.
Exit.60
MACBETH Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,65
Making the green one red.66 s Enter Lady [Macbeth].
LADY MACBETH
My hands are of your color, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Knock. I hear a knocking At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
70 A little water clears us of this deed.
How easy is it then! Your constancy
72 Hath left you unattended.
Knock. Hark, more knocking.
73 Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us 74 And show us to be watchers. Be not lost 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.
Exeunt.
II.3Enter a Porter. Knocking within.
PORTER Here's a knocking indeed. If a man were porter 2 of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock. Who's there, i' th' name 4 of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on th' 5 expectation of plenty. Come in time-have napkins enow about you; here you'll sweat for't. (Knock.) Knock, knock. Who's there, in th' other devil's name? Faith, 8 here's an equivocator,
that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for 10 God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O come in, equivocator. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose. Come in, tailor. Here you13 may roast your goose. (Knock.) Knock, knock. Never at14 quiet! What are you?-But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further. I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire. (Knock.) Anon, anon! [Opens the door.] I pray you remember the porter.19
Enter Macduff and Lennox.
MACDUFF
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,20
That you do lie so late?