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Lady Macbeth, Lines 47b-59a
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Act 1,
Scene 7
Lines 47b-59a

Lady Macbeth performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 7 of myShakespeare's Macbeth. 

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.7 Performance: Lady Macbeth, Lines 47b-59a

Lady Macbeth

                                                  What beast was't, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
They have made themselves, and that, their fitness, now
Does unmake you. 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.