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Lady Macduff, Lines 6-14a
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Act 4,
Scene 2
Lines 6-14a

Lady Macduff performs a speech from Act 4, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Macbeth. 

Lady Macduff

Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion, and his titles in a place
From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;
He wants the natural touch. For the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
All is the fear, and nothing is the love;
As little is the wisdom where the flight
So runs against all reason.