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tains his ill-acquired sovereignty. Ambition is implanted in the nature of Macbeth; but it is a blameless ambition:
*** Thou would'st be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What thou would'st highly,
That would'st thou holily; would'st not play false,
And yet would'st wrongly win.[1]
The predictions of the Witches enflame him with the expectation of a crown, and the daring impatience of his wife determines him "to catch the nearest way" to it. Ambition,
- ↑ Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 5.
