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The flighty purpose never is overtook,
Unless the deed go with it:[1]

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.[2]

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:—

  1. Macbeth, Act iv. Sc 1.
  2. Id. Act iii. Sc. 4.