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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length he found ſuche ſweeteneſſe by put|ting his nobles thus to death, that his earneſt thyrſt after bloud in this behalfe, might in no|wiſe be ſatiſfied: for ye muſt conſider he wanne double profite (as he thought) hereby: for firſte they were ridde out of the way whome he feared, and then agayne his coffers were enriched by their goodes, whiche were forfeyted to his vſe, whereby he might the better mainteyne a garde of armed men about him to defend his perſon frõ iniurie of them whom he had in any ſuſpition.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Further to the ende he might the more ſic|kerly oppreſſe his ſubiectes with all tyranlike wrongs,The caſtell of Dunſinnane buylded. hee buylded a ſtrong Caſtell on the top of an high hill cleped Dunſinnane ſituate in Gowry, ten myles from Perth, on ſuch a proude height, that ſtãding there aloft, a man might be|hold EEBO page image 249 welneare all the Countreys of Angus, Fife, Stermõd, & Ernedale, as it were lying vnderneth him. This caſtell then being founded on the top of that high hill, put the realme to great charges before it was fyniſhed, for al the ſtuffe neceſſarie to the building, could not be brought vp without much toyle and buſineſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But Makbeth beeing once determined to haue the worke go forwarde,Dunſinnane. cauſed the Thanes of eche ſhire within the Realme, to come and helpe towardes that building, eche man hys courſe about.

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