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 Let your remembrance apply to Banquo; Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue: Unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours in these flattering streams; And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are.

It is true, that Macbeth is with difficulty wrought to the murder of his gracious King; but it is not true, that he discovers any hesitation and dulness to dare, after he has imbrued his hands in the blood of Duncan. When once he enters the path of guilt, he treads it with resolute rapidity:—