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And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
To take upon you what is yours: you may
Convey^22 your pleasures in a spacious plenty.
And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.
We have willing dames enough. There cannot be
That vulture in you, to devour so many
As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
Finding it so inclined.
Malcolm. With this there grows
In my most ill-composed affection^23 such
A stanchless^24 avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands.
Desire his jewels and this other’s house:
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
Macduff. This avarice
Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root
Than summer-seeming^25 lust, and it hath been
The sword of^26 our slain kings. Yet do not fear.
Scotland hath foisons^27 to fill up your will
Of your mere own.^28 All these are portable,^29
With other graces weighed.
Malcolm. But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temp’rance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,^30
Acting it many ways. Nay, had I pow’r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound^31
All unity on earth.
Macduff. O Scotland. Scotland!
Malcolm. If such a one be fit to govern, speak:
I am as I have spoken.
Macduff. Fit to govern!
No, not to live. O nation miserable!
With an untitled^32 tyrant bloody-sceptered,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
Since that the truest issue of thy throne^33
By his own interdiction^34 stands accursed,
And does blaspheme his breed?^35 Thy royal father
Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,70- Convey secretly manage.
75- affection character.
- stanchless never-ending.
8085- summer-seeming summerlike.
- of that killed.
- foisons (FOY zuhnz) plenty.
- mere own own property.
90 29. portable bearable.
95- division... crime variations of
each kind of crime. - confound destroy.
100- untitled having no right to the
throne. - truest... throne child of the
true king. - interdiction exclusion.
- blaspheme his breed slander
his ancestry.
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Strategic Support
Cause and Effect Review Scene iii
with students. Make sure students
comprehend the causes and effects of
Malcolm’s motivation in his scene with
Macduff. Have students complete a
cause-effect graphic like this one, or have
them participate while you complete it.Cause Effect On Malcolm
Macbeth murders Malcolm’s father. Malcolm fears for his life.
Macduff flees to England. Malcolm wonders whether Macduff will try to kill him.
Malcolm is unsure why Macduff left
England.Malcolm decides to test Macduff.Malcolm wants to be sure of
Macduff’s loyalty to Scotland.Malcolm says that he expects to be a worse tyrant than
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