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enmity; but am prepared to hear with firmness what is to betide me, be it for good, or ill. This is the noble image of manly fortitude, with not a feature ruffled by the vulgarizing sneer of Contempt.

Macbeth, having recapitulated the predictions of the Witches, asks whether "they went," or not, as he had repeated them: Banquo, when he assents to the preciseness of the recital, and makes this answer,—

To the self-same tune and words,[1]

is far from intending any ridicule of their prophecy:[2] it is an exact and

  1. Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 2.
  2. Remarks, p. 48.