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A1S1: Witch: ‘MB linked to evil immediately’

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‘There to meet with Macbeth’

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A1S1: Witches: ‘witches see right as wrong and wrong as right’

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air’

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A1S2:: Sergent: ‘capable warrior or blood thirsty?’

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‘Unseamed him for the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements’

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A1S3: Banquo: ‘confused what witches are’

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‘What are these’

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A1S3: Banquo: ‘notices Macbeth seems scared’

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‘seem to fear things that do sound fair?’

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A1S3: Witch: ‘Banquo’s sons etc. will be kings but not him’

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‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’

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A1S3: Macbeth: ‘let faith take course- be king without doing anything (killing Banquo)’

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‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir’

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A1S4: Duncan: ‘Duncan has poor judgment on old thane of Cawdor: foreshadowing’

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‘He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’

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A1S5: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth: ‘referring to each other lovingly’

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‘My dearest love’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Macbeth is too nice to be king, he is not man enough’

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‘I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Will talk sense into Macbeth to become king’

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‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Calls on evil to take away her feminine qualities and make her tougher’

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‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Appearance v reality’

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‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Taking charge’

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‘Leave all the rest to me.’

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A1S6: Duncan: ‘Dramatic irony- welcoming- greeting’

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‘Fair and noble hostess’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Duncan is a good king’

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‘been so clear in great office’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Decision made- not killing Duncan’

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‘We will proceed no further in this business.’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘decided will do anything to kill Duncan’

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‘I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.’

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A2S1: Banquo: ‘Afraid- can’t stop thinking about witches, inviting Macbeth into conversation’

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“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: to you they have showed some truth’

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Pretending to not care about the witches (lie) changing subjects from Banquos fear of witches’

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“I think not of them”

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Hallucinating before murdering Duncan’

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“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘He must not be well if he is imagining this’

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“A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Excuse for not killing Duncan- vulnerable’

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“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

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A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Regrets killing Duncan’

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“This is a sorry sight”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Wants Macbeth to man up- not impressed with his regret, contrast’

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“A foolish thought”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘takes charge’

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“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”

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A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Metaphor- will never be clean of his actions’

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

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A2S3: Lennox: ‘Wild night’

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“The night has been unruly”

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A2S3: Macbeth: ‘Killed guards out of anger’

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“I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”

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A2S3: Malcolm: ‘He knows more about murder’

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“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy”

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A2S3: Donalbain: ‘Can’t trust anyone there’

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“Where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles”

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A2S4: Ross: ‘Heaven is upset by the actions of people’

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“The heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threaten his bloody stage”

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A2S4: Ross and Macduff: ‘Why won’t Macduff go to Duncans funeral or Macbeths Coronation?’

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“Will you to Scone?”
“No, cousin, I’ll to Fife”

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A3S1: Banquo: ‘suspicious of how Macbeth became king’

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‘Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, “I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t”

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A3S1: Banquo: ‘if they’ve shown Macbeth truth maybe show him truth aswell’

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“by the verities on thee made good, may they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope?”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘being king is nothing without the crown secured’

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“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘only fears Banquo’

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“There is none but he whose being I do fear”

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A3:S1: Macbeth: ‘no heirs to thrown’

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“upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘killed Duncan (good man); trying to rationalise killing Banquo’

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“For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘manipulation guards to kill Banquo’

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“Both of you know Banquo was your enemy”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘Banquo will die tonight’

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“It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it tonight”

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A3S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘We got us what we want but we’re not happy’

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“Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content: ‘tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”

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A3S2: Macbeth: ‘There’s still a chance they will love the crown’

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“We have scotched the snake, not killed it”

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A3S2: Macbeth: ‘Rather be dead because they are at peace’

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“Terrible dreams does shake us nightly. Better be with the dead”

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A3S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Fix yourself up’

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“Sleek o’er your rugged looks; be bright and jovial among your guests tonight”

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A3S2: Macbeth: ‘His mind is a mess’

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“O, full of scorpions in my mind”

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A3S2: Macbeth: ‘Doesn’t want her to know the plan’

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“The innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”

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A3S3: Banquo: ‘You will get revenge’

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“Thou mayst revenge”

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A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Not happy, fleance has become a bigger threat’

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“Then comes my fit again”

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A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Banquo’s dead and fleance has fled and he will develop venom, he isn’t powerful enough yet’

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“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present”

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A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Defiant with ghost of Banquo’

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“Never shake thy gory locks at me”

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A3S4: Lady Macbeth: ‘Rescues Macbeth’

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“Sit worthy friends: my Lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth”

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A3S4: Lady Macbeth: ‘Implies Macbeth is speaking rubbish; his imagination from fear’

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“O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear: this is the air drawn dagger which, you said, led you to Duncan”

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A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Is scared of ghost’ (when ghost leaves)

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“I am a man again” 

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A3S4: Hecate: ‘Macbeth is selfish and only wants to help himself’

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“Love for his own ends”

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A3S6: Lennox: ‘Under an evil ruler’

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“Our suffering country under a hand accursed!

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A4S1: Witch: ‘signal of approaching evil’

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“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”

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A4S1: First Apparition: ‘watch out for Macduff’

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“Beware Macduff; beware the thane of fife”

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A4S1: Second Apparition: ‘No one will or can harm Macbeth; be confident’

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“Non of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

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A4S1: Macbeth: ‘he won’t fear him but will kill him just in case’

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“Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of faith”

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A4S1: Third Apparition: ‘No one will kill Macbeth until Birnam wood moves up Dunsinane hill’

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“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him”

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A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Will Banquos children ever reign?’

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“Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?”

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A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Aggressive’

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“I will be satisfied: deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you!”

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A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Seeing Banquos children as Kings’

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“Horrible sight”

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A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Do it before he calms down; knows it’s wrong’

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“This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool”

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A4S2: Ross: ‘speaking of Macduff; nothing is predictable in these times’

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“He is noble, wise, judicious and best knows the fits o’ the season”

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A4S2: Ross: ‘Metaphor for the times they’re in’

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“A wild and violent sea”

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A4S3: Malcolm: ‘speaking of hatred towards Macbeth’

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“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘His patriotism to Scotland’

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“Bleed, bleed, poor country”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘No one is worse than Macbeth’

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“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth” 

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A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Virtues of a king; testing Macduff’

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“But I have none: the king-becoming graces”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘Patriotism’

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“O Scotland, Scotland!”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘Malcolm is terrible if this is true!’

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“Fit to govern! No not to live”

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A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Trusts Macduff because of his patriotism’

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“Macduff, this noble passion,[…] hath […] reconciled my thoughts to thy good truth an honour”

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A4S3: Ross: ‘Macbeth’s actions on Macduff’s family’

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“Your wife and babes savagely slaughtered” “Wife, children, servants, all that could be found”

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A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Kill Macbeth as revenge: a cure’

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“Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘Blaming himself’

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“Sinful Macduff, they were all struck of thee”

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A4S3: Macduff: ‘Determined to kill Macbeth’

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“Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; with in my sword’s length set him”

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