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MACBETH
The service and the loyalty I owe
In doing it pays itself. Your highness' part
Is to receive our duties, and our duties
Are to your throne and state children and servants,
Which do but what they should, by doing everything
Safe toward your love and honor.
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MACBETH
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
Welcome
hither.
I have begun to plant thee, and will labor
To make thee full of growing. (to
BANQUO) Noble Banquo,
That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
No less to have done so, let me infold thee
And hold thee to my heart.
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DUNCAN
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
There,
if I grow,
The harvest is your own.
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BANQUO
Then if I accomplish anything great, it will be a credit to
you.
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DUNCAN
My
plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The prince of Cumberland; which honor must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. (to MACBETH) From hence to Inverness,
And bind us further to you.
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DUNCAN
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
The rest is labor which is not used for you:
I’ll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
The hearing of my wife with your approach.
So humbly take my leave.
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MACBETH
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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DUNCAN
My worthy Cawdor!
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DUNCAN
My worthy Cawdor!
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