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 The flighty purpose never is overtook, Unless the deed go with it: —

he needs no other instigators to the death of Banquo, Fleance, and Macduff, but the dark and violent passions of his own corrupted heart:— Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.

If Shakspeare, after the murder of Duncan, meant Macbeth to show dulness and hesitation in evil, he has, with the most unlucky forgetfulness, thoroughly defeated his own design:—