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 his ill-acquired sovereignty. Ambition is implanted in the nature of Macbeth; but it is a blameless ambition: Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily; would'st not play false, And yet would'st wrongly win. The predictions of the Witches enflame him with the expectation of a crown, and the daring impatience of his wife determines him "to catch the nearest way" to it. Ambition,
 * Thou would'st be great;