Glamis, Cordor, king henceforth, by his summons we came, our duties did his welcome pay. The strife he hath caused, the strife he will cause. Credulous Macbeth, beguiled by our utterance, his own malevolent plotting we fed. His ambition, not to mention his wife, commissioned to perform a most heinous and abhorred task, the completion of which saw him usurp the throne. Scotland hath not witnessed such murder and treachery in many a year, not under the sovereignty of King Duncan the virtuous.
Unbidden, we showed Macbeth a glimpse of the future and more he desired. He seeked us out, demanded we say more, and more we said. He will requite us our pains before the end and they shall go much deeper than time shall mend. Brave and honourable Macbeth no more, our greetings to his heart he bore. The seeds of dissent we buried deep. His hesitance did gall us though, but with the aid of his malicious wife, spurred his ambition, antidote to his
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At first he believed us not but but hopes for his posterity being kindled in his heart. With nought but time his desires were fanned, suspicions aroused. The thought that Macbeth placed most foully for sovereignty does render a most grievous wound in their …show more content…
Macbeth doth receive news of McDuff’s journey to England with anger. He does fear McDuff. However, our equivocated auguries do bear his hopes above wisdom, grace or fear. Security is a mortal’s greatest enemy. The slaughter of McDuff’s family will be but the whetstone for his sword. The reign of McBeth has torn Scotland asunder, friend on friend and kin on kin, leaving the land desolate and daunting. The thane of Fife had a wife, the king of Scotland had one too. Blood she will see where blood there is none. Her mind is diseased by pernicious doubt and fear, further in than her husband yet shames to wear a heart so