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when Buckingham shews a reluctance to be concerned in it, he immediately looks out for another; some

———— iron-witted fool,
Or unrespective boy,[1]

more apt for his purpose. Had Macbeth been thus disappointed in the person to whom he had opened himself it would have disconcerted any design he had formed.[2]

Unluckily for Mr, Whateley, this is another assertion contradicted by the fact: It is certain, that the Ruffians to whom Macbeth opens himself, when he has resolved on the murder of Banquo, are not wrought

  1. K. Richard, Act iv. Sc. 2.
  2. Remarks, p. 36, 37.