...home6, 120 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments' of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest8 trifles, to betray's 12J In deepest9 consequence [Turns to Ross and Angus. ] Cousins, a word,...

...head; evidently Macbeth as king is not a far-fetched idea. Banquo, however, continues with his warning that 'oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of Darkness tell us truths; / ... to betray 's / In deepest consequence'. While appearing to listen to Banquo's friendly warning,...

...polarity network with a quote that bears repeating, Banquo's reaction to Macbeth's prophetic witches: The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.— (Banquo, in William Shakespeare's Macheth, act 1, scene 3) Whether...

...about the Ghost and its urging never quite reach to the possibility expressed so ominously by Banquo, that oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence ,_ . .„„ ~. Hamlet never seeks farther than to test the Ghost's...

...home, 120 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. [to Ross and Angus, who move towards...

...: 'What, can the devil speak true?' (I.iii.io6) and he perceives the manner in which they work: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. To make this statement about the deceptive nature of evil Shakespeare...

...trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of Darkness tell us truths; 125 Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. Macb....

...points out, these are exactly the means by which the demonic powers create their world of shadows: . . . The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. (I, iii, 124-6) Macbeth's tragedy begins here, for he ignores that...

...home37 120 Might yet enkindle38 you unto the crown, Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange; And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments...darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.39 [To the others] Cousins,40 a word, I pray you. MACBETH [aside] Two...

...to pass without intervention from Washizu or Miki. Yet it may be, as Banquo warns in Macbeth, that "to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths / Win us with honest trifles" (I. iii. 123-25). Whatever the reality of the Spirit — prophet, fate, projection, tempter, or all...