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  How goes the world, sir, now?
How are things going now?
 MACDUFF
                                          Why, see you not?
MACDUFF
Can't you see for yourself?
 ROSS
  Is 't known who did this more than bloody deed?
ROSS
Does anyone know who committed this horrible crime?
 MACDUFF
  Those that Macbeth hath slain.
MACDUFF
The servants Macbeth killed.
 ROSS
                                          Alas, the day!
  What good could they pretend?
ROSS
It's too bad he killed them. What good would it have done those men to kill Duncan?
 MACDUFF
                                          They were suborned.
25 Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
  Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
  Suspicion of the deed.
MACDUFF
They were paid to betray their master. Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, have run away and fled, which makes them the prime suspects.
 ROSS
  'Gainst nature still!
  Thriftless ambition, that will raven up
30 Thine own lives' means! Then 'tis most like
  The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
ROSS
Everything about this is unnatural! What a stupid ambition, causing a son to kill the father who supports him. Then it looks like Macbeth will become king.
 MACDUFF
  He is already named and gone to Scone
  To be invested.
MACDUFF
He has already been named king and has left for Scone to be crowned.
 ROSS
  Where is Duncan's body?
ROSS
Where is Duncan's body?
 MACDUFF
35 Carried to Colmekill,
  The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
  And guardian of their bones.
MACDUFF
It was carried to Colmekill to be placed in the tomb of his ancestors, where their bones are kept safe.
 ROSS
                                          Will you to Scone?
ROSS
Are you going to Scone?
 MACDUFF
  No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
MACDUFF
No, cousin, I'm going to Fife.
 ROSS
  Well, I will thither.
ROSS
Well, I'll go to Scone.

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