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Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)

Volume 1 page 245

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Makbeth studieth to aduance iustice
Makbeth after the departure thus of Duncanes sonnes vsed great liberalitie towardes the nobles of the realme, thereby to winne their fauour, & when he saw that no man went about to trouble him, he set his whole intention to maintayne iustice, and to punishe all enormities and abuses, whiche had chaunced through the feeble and slouthfull administration of Duncane: and to bring his purpose the better to passe without any trouble or great businesse, he deuised a subtill wile to bring al offenders and misdoers vnto iustice . . .

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