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“What, can the devil speak true?”

Allusion

Act 1,

Scene 3

Line 108b

An explanation of the proverbial reference, “What, can the devil speak true?” in Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare’s Macbeth.

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What, can the devil speak true?

This line is a riff on the old proverb, “the devil sometimes speaks the truth.”

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