Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after, he beganne to ſhewe what he was, in ſteede of equitie practiſing crueltie.Makbeths gil|tie conſcience. For the pricke of conſcience (as it chaunceth euer in tyrantes, and ſuche as attayne to any aſtate by vnrightuous meanes) cauſed him euer to feare, leaſt he ſhould be ſerued of the ſame cuppe, as he had miniſtred to his predeceſſour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The woordes alſo of the three weird ſiſters, wold not out of his mind, which as they promi|ſed him the kingdome, ſo lykewiſe did they pro|miſe it at the ſame time, vnto the poſteritie of Banquho. He willed therefore the ſame Ban|quho with his ſonne named Fleaunce,Makbethes de|uiſe to ſlea Banquho and his ſonne. to come to a ſupper that he had prepared for them, which was in deede, as he had deuiſed, preſent death at the handes of certaine murtherers, whome he hy|red to execute that deede, appoynting them to meete with the ſame Banquho and his ſonne without the palayce as they returned to theyr lodgings, and there to ſlea thẽ, ſo that he woulde not haue his houſe ſlaundered, but that in time to come he might cleare himſelfe, if any thing were layde to his charge vpon any ſuſpition that might ariſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It chaunced yet, by the benefite of the darke night, that though the father were ſlaine,Banquho is ſlayne, but his ſonne eſcapeth the ſon yet by the helpe of almightie God reſeruing him to better fortune, eſcaped that daunger, & after|wardes hauing ſome inckling by the admoni|tion of ſome frendes which he had in the courte, howe his life was ſought no leſſe then his fa|thers, who was ſlayne not by chaunce medley (as by the hãdling of the mater Makbeth would haue had it to appeare,Fleaunce Ban|quhoes ſonne fleeth into Wales.) but euen vpon a prepen|ſed deuiſe, wherevpon to auoyde further perill he fledde into Wales.