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Compare 1587 edition: 1 And ſurely herevpon had he put Makduffe to death, but that a certaine witch whom he had in great truſt, had told that he ſhould neuer be ſlain with man borne of any woman, nor vanquiſhed till the wood of Bernane, came to the Caſtell of Dunſinnane.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By this prophecie Makbeth put all feare out of his heart, ſuppoſing hee might doe what hee would, without any feare to be puniſhed for the ſame, for by the one propheſie he beleeued it was vnpoſſible for any man to vanquiſh him, and by the other vnpoſſible to ſlea him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This vaine hope cauſed him to doe manye outragious things, to the grieuous oppreſſion of his ſubiects.

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