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It will have blood: they say, blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have, By magot-pies and choughs and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. -- MACBETH.