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SON
Then you’ll buy 'em to sell again.
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SON
If so, you’d be buying them to sell again.
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LADY MACDUFF
Thou speak’st with all thy wit; and yet, i'
faith,
With wit enough for thee.
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LADY MACDUFF
You talk like a child, but you’re very smart
anyway.
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SON
Was my father a traitor, Mother?
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SON
Was my father a traitor, Mother?
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LADY MACDUFF
Ay, that he was.
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LADY MACDUFF
Yes, he was.
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SON
What is a traitor?
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SON
What is a traitor?
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LADY MACDUFF
Why, one that swears and lies.
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LADY MACDUFF
Someone who makes a promise and breaks it.
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SON
And be all traitors that do so?
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SON
And is everyone who swears and lies a traitor?
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LADY MACDUFF
Every one that does so is a traitor and must be hanged.
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LADY MACDUFF
Everyone who does so is a traitor and should be hanged.
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SON
And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?
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SON
And should everyone who makes promises and breaks them be
hanged?
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LADY MACDUFF
Every one.
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LADY MACDUFF
Everyone.
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SON
Who must hang them?
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SON
Who should hang them?
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LADY MACDUFF
Why, the honest men.
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LADY MACDUFF
The honest men.
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SON
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and
swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
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SON
Then the liars are fools, for there are enough liars in the world
to beat up the honest men and hang them.
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LADY MACDUFF
Now, God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a
father?
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LADY MACDUFF
(laughing) Heaven help you for
saying that, boy! (sad again) But
what will you do without a father?
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SON
If he were dead, you’d weep for him. If you would not, it
were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.
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SON
If he were dead, you’d be weeping for him. If you
aren’t weeping, it’s a good sign that
I’ll soon have a new father.
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LADY MACDUFF
Poor prattler, how thou talk’st!
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LADY MACDUFF
Silly babbler, how you talk!
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