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Macbeth, Lines 102b-111
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Act 3,
Scene 4
Lines 102b-111

Macbeth performs a speech from Act 3, Scene 4 of myShakespeare's Macbeth. 

Macbeth

                                                                    What man dare, I dare:    
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble — or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword.
If trembling I inhabit, then protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow.
Unreal mockery, hence.
[Ghost of Banquo vanishes]
                                           Why, so, being gone,
I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.