Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length Makduffe to auoyde perill of lyfe, purpoſed with himſelfe to paſſe into Englande, to procure Malcolme Cammore to clayme the crowne of Scotlande. But this was not ſo ſe|cretly deuiſed by Makduffe,Linxes eyes, and Mydas eares. but that Makbeth had knowledge giuen him thereof, for kings (as is ſayde,) haue ſharpe ſight like vnto Linx, and long eares like vnto Midas. For Makbeth had in euery noble mans houſe, one ſlie fellow or o|ther in fee with him, to reueale all that was ſayd or done within the ſame, by which ſlight he op|preſſed the moſte parte of the Nobles of hys Realme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Immediately then, being aduertiſed where|about Makduffe went, he came haſtily wyth a great power into Fife, and forthwith beſieged the Caſtell where Makduffe dwelled, truſting to haue found him therin.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 They that kept the houſe, without any reſi|ſtance opened the gates,Macbethes crueltie vſed againſt Mak|duffes family. and ſuffred him to en|ter, miſtruſting none euill. But neuertheleſſe Makbeth moſt cruelly cauſed the wife and chil|dren of Makduffe, with all other whom he found in that caſtell, to be ſlaine.