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The next apparition, says that, Macbeth must "Be bloody, bold, and resolute laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth". The first one says that "armed Head", Macbeth thinks that it means beware Macduff but it actually is that Macduff in armor, head of the army will defeat Macbeth and chop his head off. When Macbeth visits the witches for the apparition, the witches that are working for the devil, equivocate all their apparitions. This in another equivocation but doesn't necessary make it a good thing.
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The Catholic equivocators would tell the Protestants what they wanted to hear, but God would know that they would be telling the truth. If the Catholics told the Protestants that they were Catholics they would get in serious trouble and it would be a sin against God. The book was about how CatholicsĀ dealt with dangerous questions from Protestant inquisitors. This line is considered a reference to the book "A Treatise of Equivocation". In Act 2 Scene 3, when Macduff finds the bloody corpse of King Duncan, the porter that is still drunk from drinking in the night says that he is the porter of hell and says "equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale".
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In Act 1 Scene 7, Macbeth says, "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." This is used quite often in Shakespeare's play, mostly with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth when they try to hide the fact the they plan to kill King Duncan. Equivocation is the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself.