What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3. After their father Duncan’s murder, Donalbain suggests to his brother Malcolm that it is no time for talking as they are both in danger. Using a metaphor, he describes how their fate in hidden in a drill hole ready to rush out and seize them. Fearing for their lives the brothers escape that “fate” and flee Scotland – Malcolm to England and Donalbain to Ireland.