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Duncan Successful Monarch Seek Kill Admire Riles Macbeth

Text Duncan is such as successful monarch that even those who seek to kill admire the way he riles. Macbeth outlines Duncan's honourable qualities: he "Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that his virtues / Will plead like angels, trumpet tongued, against / The deep damnation of his taking off," (1.7). Thereby acknowledging that Duncan is a good king.

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