Watch Lady Macbeth exhort Macbeth to murder Duncan in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
Lady Macbeth goads Macbeth to murder Duncan in Act I, scene 7, of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Transcript
LADY MACBETH: 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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH: If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH: We fail?
But screw your courage to the stickingplace,
And we'll not fail.
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH: If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH: We fail?
But screw your courage to the stickingplace,
And we'll not fail.