Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3. A two-faced Macbeth is at his duplicitous best during the panic that follows the discovery of Duncan’s murder. We see perfect examples of dramatic irony and deception in murderer Macbeth’s quote. He attempts to deflect suspicion from himself by hypocritically and falsely claiming that if he had died before the murder, he would have lived a blessed life.