Give me blinkers, to save me from starting;

The knife that I thought that I saw

Was naught but my eye, Betty Martin.

Now o'er this terrestrial hive

A life paralytic is spread;

For while the one half is alive,

The other is sleepy and dead.

King Duncan, in grand majesty,

Has got my state-bed for a snooze;

I've lent him my slippers, so I