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Sundarnaz Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Mecbeth. Act I, Scene VI

LADY MACBETH enters.

DUNCAN

Look, here comes our honored hostess! Sometimes the love my subjects bring me is inconvenient, but I still accept it as love. In doing so, I’m teaching you to thank me for the incovenience I’m causing you by being here, because it comes from my love to you.

Would anybody, please, explain the highlighted part to me? I didn't get it.

Source:

http://m.sparknotes.com/nfs/macbeth/page_36.html

Thanks.

  

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Hi Roughly, it is: Duncan: Sometimes my subjects make a lot of fuss around me, continually entering the room with food or with gifts, or inviting me to parties and other entertainment. Sometimes, I just find this a nuisance and wish they would leave me alone for a while. However, I must always remind myself, in these cases, that my subjects are showing love for me, and therefore I must be grateful.

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  • Hi Roughly, it is: Duncan: Sometimes my subjects make a lot of fuss around me, continually entering the room with food or with gifts, or inviting me to parties and other entertainment.
  • Sometimes, I just find this a nuisance and wish they would leave me alone for a while.
  • However, I must always remind myself, in these cases, that my subjects are showing love for me, and therefore I must be grateful.
  • In the same way, although you may feel that my visit to you is a nuisance, I hope you will be grateful for it because, I assure you, it is a sign of my love for you Lady Macbeth replies that she feels that any hospitality she can offer will be slight compared with the honour that the king does her, now and in the past Duncan's speech is kingly and shows genuine respect for Lady M's feelings.
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Hi

Roughly, it is:

Duncan: Sometimes my subjects make a lot of fuss around me, continually entering the room with food or with gifts, or inviting me to parties and other entertainment. Sometimes, I just find this a nuisance and wish they would leave me alone for a while. However, I must always remind myself, in these cases, that my subjects are showing love for me, and therefore

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