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could suggest for the secure establishment of his throne.
The Remarks would next presume, that Macbeth is clearly convicted of cowardice on his own acknowledgement; Alluding principally to the passages already refuted, they say,—These are all symptoms of timidity, which he confesses to have been natural to him, when he owns,[1]—
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir
As life were in't.[2]
Had the author of the Remarks
