...been So clear in his 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 Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed...

...of which Macbeth recognises and takes into his calculation: Duncan Hath bonie his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that 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...

...'If it were done when 'tis done' soliloquy: Besides, this Duncan 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; And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan 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 20 And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...vision of angels and of the heavens opening: Besides, this Duncan 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, And pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...soliloquy, he produces the saintly king - as a mirror. "This Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great 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...

...in The Well Wrought Vrn (New York, 1947), pp. 43-44; Speaight, Nature in Shakespearian Tragedy, pp. So clear in his 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,...

...murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan 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 . . . In this speech we see again Shakespeare's...

...murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan 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; Ana pity, like a naked new-born babe,...

...murder King Duncan, and fears the consequences. Besides, this Duncan 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; And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,...