Lady Macbeth again warns him not to think of such "brain-sickly of things" and tells him to wash the blood from his hands (44). Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor / Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more" (33-41). Nonetheless, Macbeth also tells her that he also thought he heard a voice saying, "’sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep. Lady Macbeth’s counsels to think "after these ways” as “it will make mad" (32). He is deeply shaken: as he entered Duncan's chamber, he heard the bodyguards praying and could not say "Amen" when they finished their prayers. Macbeth enters, still carrying the bloody daggers with which he killed Duncan. Upon hearing a noise within, she worries that the bodyguards have awakened before Macbeth has had a chance to plant the evidence on them. Lady Macbeth waits fitfully for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan. The bell rings-a signal from Lady Macbeth-and he sets off toward Duncan's room. Frightened by the apparition of a "dagger of the mind," he prays that the earth will "hear not steps" as he completes his bloody plan (38, 57). After Banquo and his son Fleance leave the scene, Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger pointing toward Duncan's chamber. When Banquo raises the topic of the prophecy as Macbeth enters the scene, Macbeth pretends that he has given little thought to the witches' prophesy. He must restrain himself the “cursed thoughts” that tempt him in his dreams (II i 8). Banquo, who has come to Inverness with Duncan, wrestles with the witches' prophecy.
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