Macbeth walks in on his waiting wife with bloody daggers in his hands. The deed has been done, and Macbeth is horrified by his actions.
I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.Did not you speak?
My husband!
I’ll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have done;Look on ’t again I dare not.
Macbeth has managed to mess up the plan by bringing the daggers away from the scene of the crime. Since Macbeth is too shaken up to do anything, Lady Macbeth takes charge, calls him a coward.
Infirm of purpose!
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
Lady Macbeth leaves so that she can take the daggers back to Duncan’s chambers.
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.
Lady Macbeth comes back.
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white
Lady Macbeth tells a distraught Macbeth to snap out of it, wash the blood off his hands, and put on hisnightgown, in case someone finds them awake.
I hear a knocking at the south entry. Retire we to our chamber. a little water clears us of this deed.how easy is it, then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.
Hark! More knocking.Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us and show us to be watchers. Be not lostSo poorly in your thoughts