Act 2, Scene 3 - Video Performance: Porter, Lines 22-32 (Lewd)

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Porter, Lines 22-32 (Lewd)

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Act 2,

Scene 3

Lines 22-32

The Porter performs a speech from Act 2, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Macbeth.

myShakespeare | Macbeth 2.3 Performance: Porter, Lines 22-32 (Lewd)

'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock,

and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

What three things does drink especially provoke?

Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes. It provokes

the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator

with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets

him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him;

makes him stand to, and not stand to — in conclusion, equivocates him

in a sleep and, giving him the lie, leaves him.