Out, damned spot!

"SCENE TWO
A hall in Macbeth's castle.
Night.

A doctor and Lady Macbeth's gentlewoman

DOCTOR
We have waited in
vain for two nights,

GENTLEWOMAN
She will appear tonight.

DOCTOR
What was she talking about in her sleep?

GENTLEWOMAN
I must not repeat it to any living man.

(Lady Macbeth enters with a lamp.)
Here she is!

DOCTOR
That lamp in her hand … ?

GENTLEWOMAN
It is the lamp which she
keeps always beside her bed.

DOCTOR
Oh, her eyes are wide open!

GENTLEWOMAN
Yet she cannot see.

(Lady Macbeth puts down the lamp and rubs her hands as if washing something off.)

DOCTOR
Why is she rubbing her hands?

GENTLEWOMAN
She thinks that she's washing them."

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LADY MACBETH
There's still a spot here.
Away, I tell you, curse you!
One, two, it is time!
Are you shaking? Don't you dare go in?
A soldier and so cowardly?
Shame! Come on, hurry!
Who would have thought that there would be
so much blood in that old man?

DOCTOR
What did she say?

LADY MACBETH
The Thane of Fife
was he not recently a husband and father?
What happened?

GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
Oh, horror!

LADY MACBETH (looking at her hands)
Shall I never be able
to clean these hands?
There's still
human blood here. Thee perfumes
of all Arabia could not clean
this little hand.
Alas!

DOCTOR
Is she moaning?

LADY MACBETH
Put on your nightgown.
Come on, wash yourself!
Banquo is dead and no-one
has ever come back from the grave.

DOCTOR
This too?

LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed …
What's done cannot be undone.
Someone is knocking! Come on, Macbeth,
do not let your pallor accuse you.

GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
Oh, horror!
Lord, have mercy on her!