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Macbeth, Lines 14-29
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Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 14-29

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

Macbeth

We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.
But let the frame of things disjoint, 
Both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than, on the torture of the mind, to lie
In restless ecstasy. 
Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
Treason has done his worst. Nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.