Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 453 1817 Full view - About this book
...five days before his death, had, on board the River Queen, read from Macbeth to a circle of guests: "Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." It was his new grave, however, that held fitful fever for Abraham Lincoln. Neither the East, which...