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...or wholly cancel their obligations to the Moor, but even Braccio was obliged to confess, "This Moor hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues would plead like angels, trumpet-tongued," against the council which should censure him. — Robert...

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...Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, is Who should against his murtherer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath...virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd, against 20 The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And Pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast,...

...subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off 20 And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...with it. Take, for instance, the second half of Macbeth's 'If it were done when 'tis done' soliloquy: Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...confusions, and a force neither divine nor wicked seems to choose him as the trumpet of its prophecy: Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off, And pity, like a naked newborn babe...

...towards the murder. Importantly this speech contains a vision of angels and of the heavens opening: Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek,...great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off, And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...by Duncan's furthering of their designs; in soliloquy, he produces the saintly king - as a mirror. "This Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath...office, that his virtues / Will plead like angels" (I. vii. 16-19). Duncan's polished surface: is it the representation of an absolute power or the mirror...

...of goodness, the force of which Macbeth recognises and takes into his calculation: Duncan Hath bonie his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great...his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd. (I.vii.16-19) This prophecy is taken up in the later scenes of the play as the 'powers' (the word nearly...