Come_give_me_your_hand May 2026

"To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!".

It is spoken by in Act 5, Scene 1 (the famous "sleepwalking scene") as she relives the guilt of the murders she helped commit. Context of the Text come_give_me_your_hand

Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Doctor: Even so? "To bed, to bed

For your reference, here is the immediate draft of that section from Shakespeare's Macbeth : put on your nightgown

This line highlights Lady Macbeth's transition from a cold, calculating figure to one "unhinged" by trauma and guilt.