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"they pluck out mine eyes"
Allusion
Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 56b-62

An explanation of a biblical allusion in Act 2, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s Macbeth.

Macbeth

                                                  Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

This line is a reference to Mark 9:47: “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.”