LADY MACBETH: Help me hence, ho!
MACDUFF: Look to the lady.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3. Lady Macbeth purposely swoons and faints following the discovery of King Duncan’s murder and Macbeth’s killing of the King’s guards. She makes a deceitful pretence of feminine weakness to draw attention away from herself and her husband over their complicity in the regicide. Macduff tells the men to take care of the lady.