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Banquo’s sons, kings! Instead of watching that happen, I will challenge fate to battle and fight to the death. Who’s there!

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Banquo’s sons, kings! Instead of watching that happen, I will challenge fate to battle and fight to the death. Who’s there!

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I’ve handed over my everlasting soul to the devil so that they could be kings.

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I’ve handed over my everlasting soul to the devil so that they could be kings.

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If this is true, then I’ve tortured my conscience and murdered the gracious Duncan for Banquo’s sons. I’ve ruined my own peace for their benefit.

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If this is true, then I’ve tortured my conscience and murdered the gracious Duncan for Banquo’s sons. I’ve ruined my own peace for their benefit.

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They gave me a crown and a scepter that I can’t pass on.

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They gave me a crown and a scepter that I can’t pass on.

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Then, like prophets, they named him the father to a line of kings.

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Then, like prophets, they named him the father to a line of kings.

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Banquo chided the witches when they first called me king, asking them to tell him his own future.

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Banquo chided the witches when they first called me king, asking them to tell him his own future.

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Around him, my genius shines less bright, just as Mark Antony supposedly feared Octavius Caesar.

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Around him, my genius shines less bright, just as Mark Antony supposedly feared Octavius Caesar.

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He has the wisdom to act bravely but also safely.

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He has the wisdom to act bravely but also safely.

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To be the king is nothing if I’m not safe as the king.

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To be the king is nothing if I’m not safe as the king.

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Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1: Shakespearean Text

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Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1: Shakespearean Text

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To be thus is nothing,

But to be safely thus.
Our fears in Banquo

Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature

Reigns that which would be feared. 'Tis much he dares,

And to that dauntless temper of his mind

He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor

To act in safety. There is none but he

Whose being I do fear, and under him

My genius is rebuked, as it is said

Mark Antony’s was by Caesar. He chid the sisters

When first they put the name of king upon me

And bade them speak to him. Then, prophetlike,

They hailed him father to a line of kings.

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

And put a barren scepter in my grip,

Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,

No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so,

For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind;

For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;

Put rancors in the vessel of my peace

Only for them; and mine eternal jewel

Given to the common enemy of man,

To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!

Rather than so, come fate into the list,

And champion me to th' utterance. Who’s there?