n 'twere well it were done quickly. If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with the surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgement here; that we but teach bloody instruction, which being taught, return to the plague of inventor: this even handed justice condemns the ingredients of our poison'd chalice to our own lips. " (Act I, Scene VII) Macbeth has confused feelings about murdering Duncan, his "worthiest cousin." He hesitates to murd
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