In Act IV, Scene 3, Malcolm tests Macduff by telling him that he, Malcolm, would be a more terrible ruler than Macbeth. He says:
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,
By him that shall succeed...
It is myself I mean; in whom I know
All the particulars of vice so grafted
That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth
Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
With my confineless harms.
He says these things (and more) to see Macduff's response. Macduff answers by always defending Malcolm and pointing out that Malcolm's "vices" are only those that "normal" people might have, rather than the true evil that motivates Macbeth's actions.
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