Malcolm, it is true, then drops the pretence of villainy, but he does not succeed in reassuring his companion.
iv. iii. 138.
Macduff. Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
'Tis hard to reconcile.
At this moment enters Ross with the news of Macbeth's expedition against Fife, and tells how all Macduff's household, 'wife, children, servants, all,' have been cut off 'at one swoop': before the agony of a bereavement like this hesitation flies away for ever.
iv. iii. 231.
Gentle heavens,
Cut short all intermission; front to front
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;
Within my sword's length set him: if he 'scape,