Macbeth uses the same tactics that his wife used on him to convince him to murder Duncan. He questions the manhood of the murders. He asks them if they are men? They reply yes, but Macbeth goes on to say:
"Ay, In the catalogue ye go tor men;
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels,
curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are clept
All by the name of dogs: the valu'd file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him clos'd; whereby he does receive
Particular addition, from the bill
That writes them all alike: and so of men.
"Now, if you have a station in the file,
Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say it;
And I will put that business in your bosoms,
Whose execution takes your enemy off,
Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
Which in his death were perfect".
He also makes it clear that he would appreciate their taking on this task.
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