Misquotation: “Lead On, Macduff”

Misquotation: “Lead on, Macduff”

In the final scene of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth, brought to bay by the wronged Macduff, challenges his enemy and nemesis to fight in the last words he speaks in the play:

Lay on, Macduff; And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’

The first three words have given rise to humorous alteration, as in Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885):

‘Are ye prepared to enter the Place of Death?’ asked Gagool, evidently with a view to making us feel uncomfortable. ‘Lead on, Macduff,’ said Good solemnly, trying to look as though he was not at all alarmed.

From Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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