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without googling, interpret the following dialogue

> Macbeth. If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
> It were done quickly: if th’ assassination
> Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
> With his surcease success; that but this blow
> Might be the be-all and the end-all — here,
> But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
> We’d jump the life to come. But in these cases
> We still have judgment here; that we but teach
> Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
> To plague th’inventor: this even-handed justice
> Commends th’ingredience of our poison’d chalice
> To our own lips. He’s here in double trust:
> First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
> Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
> Who should against his murderer shut the door,
> Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
> Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
> So clear in his great office, that his virtues
> Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
> The deep damnation of his taking-off;
> And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,
> Striding the blast, or heaven’s Cherubins, horsed
> Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
> Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
> That tears shall drown the wind. —I have no spur
> To prick the sides of my intent, but only
> Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
> And falls on the other —