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1
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Quotes that show macbeth’s reputation from scene 2 (4)

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“Brave Macbeth”
“O, valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!”
“Bellona’s bridegroom”
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”

2
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M- “so foul-

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And fair a day I have not seen”

3
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B- “what are these-

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So withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like th’inhabitants o’ the earth, and yet are on’t?”

4
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W- “All hail, Macbeth-

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That shall be king hereafter!”

5
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B- “Good sir-

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Why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?”

6
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W- “thou shalt get kings-

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Though thou be none”

7
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M- “why do you dress me-

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In borrowed robes?”

8
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M- “Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor-

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The greatest is behind”

9
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B- “But ‘tis strange:

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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence”

10
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M- “This supernatural soliciting

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Cannot be ill, cannot be good”

11
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M- “If chance will have me king

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Why, chance may crown me, without my stir”

12
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KD- “There’s no art

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To find the mind’s construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”

13
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M- “The service and loyalty

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I owe, in doing it, pays itself”

14
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M- “The Prince of Cumberland!

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That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’er leap, for in my way it lies”

15
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M- “Stars, hide your fires!

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Let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”

16
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LM- “Glamis thou art,

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And Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way”

17
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LM- “Hie thee hither,

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that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round”

18
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LM- “Unsex me here,

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And fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty”

19
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LM- ‘Take my milk

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For gall, you murdering ministers”

20
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LM- “Great Glamis!

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Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!”

21
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LM- “O, never

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Shall sun the morrow see!”

22
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LM- “look like

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The innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

23
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KD- “Give me your hand;

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Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him”

24
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M- “If it were done,

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When ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”

25
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M- “But in these cases

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We still have judgement here”

26
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M- “As his host,

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Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”

27
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M- “I have no spur

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To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’er leaps itself and falls on the other”

28
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M- “We will proceed

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No further in this business: he hath honoured me of late; and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people which should be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon”

29
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M- “I dare do all

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That may become a man; who dares do more, is none”

30
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LM- “I have given suck,

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And know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me- I would, while it is smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums, and dashed the brains out”

31
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LM- “But screw

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Your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail”

32
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M- “False face

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Must hide what the false heart doth know”