 Studying Macbeth? Let's look at key quotes related to King Duncan. In Act 1, scene 6, King Duncan is at the house of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and when he says CC the repetition here shows that he's easily misguided by relying on appearances and what he sees. He calls Lady Macbeth our honoured hostess and this alliteration is ironic because she does not have any honour. In fact she's about to betray him. He says the love that follows us sometimes is our trouble. In other words he's saying that there's too many people that keep on inviting him and he sometimes finds it hard to keep up with all these invitations. Now the iambic pentameter here illustrates that he really values the Macbeths of all the invitations that he gets he chooses them to stay over. The repetition of the word thank shows just how humble King Duncan is as a leader and of course this emphasises just how much of a terrible mistake it is to kill him.