Macbeth Glossary - To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus.

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Macbeth Soliloquy Glossary: To be thus is nothing (3.1.47-71)
To be thus...thus (47-8)

i.e., to be king is nothing, unless, as king, you are safe.

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