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Primrose Path
Literary Allusion
Act 2,
Scene 3
Lines 17-18

The origin and definitation of "primrose path" in myshakespeare's Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3.

Porter

I had thought to have let in some of all professions that 
go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.

Shakespeare coined the now familiar phrase "primrose path" in Hamlet which he wrote a few years before Macbeth.  It describes taking the easy hedonistic path in life which ends in ruin instead of the arduous righteous life which leads to religious salvation in heaven.