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To do this deed, Promotion follows: If I could find example Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings, And flourish'd after, I'd not do't: but since Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one, Let villainy itself forswear't.— W.T i. 2

As full of valour as of royal blood: Both have I spilt; 0, would the deed were good! For now the devil, that told me, I did well, Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell.— R. II. v. 6

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination $16 Shak pearian Dictionary. Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his 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 judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor: This even handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.-I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on t'other side.— M. i. 7