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Banquo, Lines 1-10
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Act 3,
Scene 1
Lines 1-10

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

[Forres, the royal palace. Enter Banquo, thinking outloud]

Banquo

Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all
As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou played’st most foully for't. Yet it was said
It should not stand in thy posterity,
But that myself should be the root and father
Of many kings. If there come truth from them —
As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine — 
Why, by the verities on thee made good,
May they not be my oracles as well,
And set me up in hope? But hush, no more.