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| | MACBETH |
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The service and the loyalty I owe |
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In doing it pays itself. Your highness' part |
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Is to receive our duties, and our duties |
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Are to your throne and state children and servants, |
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Which do but what they should, by doing everything |
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Safe toward your love and honor. |
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| MACBETH |
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The opportunity to serve you is its own reward. Your only duty,
your highness, is to accept what we owe you. Our duty to you and
your state is like the duty of children to their father or servants
to their master. By doing everything we can to protect you,
we're only doing what we should. |
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| | DUNCAN |
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Welcome
hither. |
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I have begun to plant thee, and will labor |
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To make thee full of growing. (to
BANQUO) Noble Banquo, |
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That hast no less deserved, nor must be known |
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No less to have done so, let me infold thee |
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And hold thee to my heart. |
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| DUNCAN |
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You are welcome here. By making you thane of Cawdor, I have
planted the seeds of a great career for you, and I will make sure
they grow. (to BANQUO) Noble Banquo, you deserve no less than
Macbeth, and everyone should know it. Let me bring you close to me
and give you the benefit of my love and good will. |
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| | BANQUO |
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There,
if I grow, |
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The harvest is your own. |
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| BANQUO |
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Then if I accomplish anything great, it will be a credit to
you. |
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| | DUNCAN |
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My
plenteous joys, |
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Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves |
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In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, |
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And you whose places are the nearest, know |
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We will establish our estate upon |
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Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter |
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The prince of Cumberland; which honor must |
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Not unaccompanied invest him only, |
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But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine |
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On all deservers. (to MACBETH) From hence to Inverness, |
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And bind us further to you. |
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| DUNCAN |
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My joy is so overwhelming it brings tears to my eyes. My sons,
relatives, lords, and all those closest to me, I want you to witness
that I will bestow my kingdom on my eldest son, Malcolm. Today I
name him the prince of Cumberland. But Malcolm isn't going
to be alone in receiving honors—titles of nobility will
shine like stars on all of you who deserve them. (to MACBETH) And now, let's go to your castle at Inverness,
where I will become even more obliged to you because of your
hospitality. |
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| | MACBETH |
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The rest is labor which is not used for you: |
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I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful |
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The hearing of my wife with your approach. |
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So humbly take my leave. |
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| MACBETH |
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I'm not happy unless I can be working for you. I will go
ahead and bring my wife the good news that you are coming. With
that, I'll be off. |
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