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Lady Macbeth, Lines 60-73a
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Act 1,
Scene 7
Lines 60-73a

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

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.7 Performance: Lady Macbeth, Lines 60-73a

Lady Macbeth

We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep — 
Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
Soundly invite him — his two chamberlains
Will I, with wine and wassail, so convince,
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep
Their drenchèd natures lie as in a death,
What cannot you and I perform upon
The unguarded Duncan? What not put upon
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Of our great quell?