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Macbeth, Lines 133-144a
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Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 133-144a

Macbeth performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Macbeth.

myShakespeare | Macbeth 1.3 Performance: Macbeth, Lines 133-144a

Macbeth

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair,
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise — and nothing is,
But what is not.